Performing Arts
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'High School Musical' earns some high marksOct 31, 2021 9:37 pm - If you and your kids aren't already sick and tired of the oft-produced stage version of Disney's "High School Musical," a trip to the Metropolis Performing Arts Center m...
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Arts agendaOct 31, 2021 9:03 pm - • • Open call auditions for the national tour of "Dirty Dancing--The Classic Story on Stage" are 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Joel Hall Dance Center, 1511 W. Berwyn Ave., Chi...
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Chicago Shakespeare emphasizes comedy in Bard romanceOct 31, 2021 9:03 pm - With a nudge and a wink and tongue planted firmly in cheek, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Barbara Gaines solves the problematic "Cymbeline." She does it by em...
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Redmoon examines beauty, rejection in fairy-tale settingOct 31, 2021 9:04 pm - Any woman watching Redmoon Theater's "The Princess Club" will recognize instantly the situations and personalities comprising this quirky, visually arresting sho...
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Theater: Worth the tripOct 31, 2021 9:04 pm - Boomer blues Reading glasses, aching joints, graying hair. Middle age offers much to look forward to and Noble Fool skewers it all in its new revue, "Mid-Life! The Cris...
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Director gets a chance at other 'Phantom'Oct 31, 2021 9:00 pm - Some call it "the other 'Phantom of the Opera'" or the "smarter 'Phantom.' " They're referring to the musical version of Gaston Leroux's classic 1910 thriller "The Phant...
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Burlesque is the new 'funinism'Oct 31, 2021 9:06 pm - Margaret Cho is trying to put the word "fun" into "feminism." And she's not alone -- Chicago choreographer Leslie Kerrigan has also tapped into a fun way for women to c...
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Brooks would be proud of Marriott's 'Producers'Oct 31, 2021 9:01 pm - Staging the post-Broadway, regional premiere of "The Producers" means shouldering quite a burden. Fortunately, Marriott Theatre has actors Ross Lehman and Gu...
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Actors find quirky roles in 'Eat the Runt'Oct 31, 2021 8:01 pm - It is not unusual for an actor to play many roles in his life. Or even many roles in a single play. But it is usual for an actor not to know which role he or she will pl...
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Jeff nominees out for '06-'07Oct 31, 2021 8:06 pm - It wasn't a question of Marriott Theatre receiving multiple nods when the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee announced its nominees for 2006-2007 equity productions Thurs...