Entertainment Columns
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Cleve Carney Museum of Art's Andy Warhol exhibition among the summer's most anticipated cultural eventsMay 21, 2023 6:00 am - Among the suburbs' most anticipated cultural events this summer is the Cleve Carney Museum of Art exhibition "Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop/Works from the Bank o...
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Spotlight: Renegade couple journeys across the Midwest in Lookingglass' 'Honeymoon'May 19, 2023 6:00 am - Dream man When she was 13, actress/writer Victoria Montalbano discovered her ideal man, "Star Wars" hero Han Solo, and she's been looking for his real-life counterp...
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TimeLine's four-star 'What the Constitution Means to Me' as timely as everMay 17, 2023 11:00 pm - “What the Constitution Means to Me” - ★ ★ ★ ★ A sense of urgency underscores “What the Constitution Means to Me,” Heidi Schreck's thought-provoking examination of the Co...
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Talent for baking for others leads Barrington High alum to 'The Great American Baking Show'May 17, 2023 6:00 am - I am so excited to tell you all about Nirali Chauhan, a talented, kind and brilliant young woman I have known since she was in elementary school and who you can get to k...
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Spotlight: Court Theatre revives 'Gospel at Colonus'May 12, 2023 6:00 am - Kane Rep returns Kane Repertory Theatre returns with "On An Average Day," John Kolvenbach's two-hander about estranged brothers who reunite to examine their shared, trag...
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Star power: Metropolis' stellar 'Ragtime' cast makes an impressionMay 11, 2023 10:15 am - “Ragtime” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Chicago-area theatergoers may not be familiar with the singer/actors performing in Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's first-rate revival of “Ragtime...
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Widescreen: 'Beetlejuice' rises from the grave - againMay 10, 2023 11:00 pm - I tweeted this about "The Addams Family," Barry Sonnenfeld's hilarious, succinct film adaptation of the Charles Addams characters, back in 2020: "If a big-budget liv...
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Spotlight: Screenwriter vows to tell the truth in Theater Wit comedy 'The Whistleblower'May 05, 2023 6:00 am - The whole truth Offered his own TV show, screenwriter Eli decides to share hard truths with his co-workers, friends and family in "The Whistleblower," the latest comedy ...
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Libertyville's Beth Lacke examines Constitutional conundrum in 'What the Constitution Means to Me'May 03, 2023 11:00 pm - Beth Lacke got her first laugh as a kindergartner playing a lamp in the class Nativity play, during which she forgot her line. Someone whispered in her ear and Lacke blu...
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Northlight's folk-infused 'Porch on Windy Hill' benefits from crackerjack trioMay 02, 2023 11:00 pm - “The Porch on Windy Hill: a new play with old music” - ★ ★ ★ “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.” Those words by 17th-c...