Articles filed under Theater
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Best Bets - The cityNov 01, 2021 9:53 am - In the round The Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago opens its 2007-08 season with the area premiere of "A Slipping Glimpse," a full-length work by San Francis...
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'Savannah Disputation' fits in well at Writers' TheatreNov 01, 2021 9:59 am - Two years ago the intrepid folks at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe produced a short, witty play, "The Uneasy Chair," by a young writer based in Savannah, Georgia -- Evan Sm...
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Two plays give unique look at black theaterOct 31, 2021 10:05 pm - Days after Congo Square Theatre's Midwest premiere of Afro-British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah's "Elmina's Kitchen," Pegasus Players opened its revival of August Wilson'...
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Out & AboutOct 31, 2021 9:48 pm - Robert Jordan Baily, left, plays the Actor and Kurt Naebig is Kipps in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's "The Woman in Black," in previews today at College of DuPage. Start fal...
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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...