Entertainment Columns
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Sound check: Celebrate Latin artists at Ruido Fest; 56 Music Fix takes over Mount ProspectAug 17, 2022 6:00 am - Ruido weekend Argentine ska band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are cruising into town this weekend, and they're bringing singer-songwriter Cuco, the "high"-jinks of hip-h...
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Coming out, coming of age, coming to terms in four-star 'Fun Home' at CopleyAug 12, 2022 2:00 pm - “Fun Home” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Most musicals have what is commonly known as an 11 o'clock number: the showstopper that typically occurs late in the second act and centers on the ...
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Spotlight: Curious Theatre Branch stages two-handers as part of its 'Back at the House' showcaseAug 12, 2022 6:00 am - 'Back at the house ...' Curious Theatre Branch showcases plays by Jenny Magnus, Myle Yan Tay and Beau O'Reilly as part of "Back at the House ... With or Without Roommate...
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Widescreen: 'Prey' is one of the summer's greatest entertainment success storiesAug 11, 2022 6:00 am - "Prey," the exciting, surprisingly beautiful prequel to the 1987 monster mash "Predator," debuted on Hulu last weekend to the biggest audience in the streaming platform'...
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Wheaton actor/director/educator returns to the stage in Copley Theatre's 'Fun Home'Aug 10, 2022 11:00 pm - Late last year, theater artist and former BoHo Theatre artistic director Stephen Schellhardt stepped away from the theater that had been his artistic home for six years....
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Sound check: Jason Aldean in Tinley Park; The Venue's Americana Music FestAug 10, 2022 6:00 am - Americana under the Aurora stars The Venue wraps up its summer music season with the three-day Americana Music Festival this weekend. Friday, Chicago Farmer & the Fieldn...
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Pandemic-delayed 'Devil Wears Prada' opens in Chicago, and its creatives couldn't be happierAug 04, 2022 6:00 am - It was the first table read for “The Devil Wears Prada,” the Broadway-bound musical premiering at Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre, and co-star Taylor Iman Jones w...
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Flourishes of cinematic brilliance fight superficiality, numbing gore in blackly comic 'Bullet Train'Aug 04, 2022 6:00 am - “Bullet Train” - ★ ★ ½ Imagine that Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie conspired to create a blackly comic Grand Guignol version of a classic 1970s disaster film set abo...
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Spotlight: 'Kitties in Space' soars into Otherworld TheatreAug 04, 2022 6:00 am - Felines in space In a future where humans are extinct and pets have enhanced intelligence, cat buddies Socks and Mittens "go where no cat has gone before" in Otherw...
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Sound check: Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams play Evanston's Out of Space weekendAug 03, 2022 6:00 am - Out of Space with Costello, Williams and Guy Evanston SPACE introduces the first of its two 2022 Out of Space concert series this weekend, with four shows set under the ...