Entertainment Columns
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Spotlight: Buffalo Theatre Ensemble stages Jane Austen-inspired 'Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley'Nov 14, 2023 10:00 pm - 'Christmas at Pemberley' Mary Bennet, the bookish younger sister to Jane Austen's Lizzie Darcy, embarks upon a holiday romance in "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberl...
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Leading lady gives showstopping turn in Marriott's heartfelt 'Beautiful'Nov 13, 2023 4:00 am - YouTube So primed was the audience for Marriott Theatre's first Chicago-made production of #8220;Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,#8221; they began applauding before K...
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Timely doc 'Common Ground' gives us the dirt on ineffective, deadly farming practicesNov 09, 2023 5:00 am - “Common Ground” — ★ ★ ★ ½ An open letter to filmmaker Adam “The Big Short” McKay: Dear Mr. McKay, I have a perfect idea for your next movie — a dramatic version of ...
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Hail to the actual chiefs: Crackerjack cast powers Steppenwolf's 'POTUS'Nov 08, 2023 4:00 pm - “POTUS” — ★ ★ ★ ½ “POTUS: or, Behind Every Great (expletive) are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” commenced with an unprintable word that likely shocked some S...
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Spotlight: Citadel revives 'She Loves Me,' 'Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas' debutsNov 08, 2023 5:00 am - Tuneful romance A pair of squabbling co-workers, unaware that they are anonymous pen pals, fall in love in Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1963 musical "She Loves ...
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Suburban actresses describe Teatro Vista's 'Bernarda!' as a theater experience unlike any otherNov 01, 2023 11:00 pm - Teatro Vista's new interpretation of “The House of Bernarda Alba,” early 20th-century Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's tragedy about a despotic matria...
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Can't help falling in love with 'Priscilla' and its ideal cast, subtle direction, eye-popping production designsOct 31, 2023 11:00 am - “Priscilla” — ★ ★ ★ ★ Few Hollywood biographical dramas pack the risky level of exploitative and sensationalistic naughtiness nimbly negotiated in “Priscilla.” For ...
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Spotlight: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' opens at Paramount, 'Cinderella' graces stage at Drury LaneOct 31, 2023 6:00 am - Fact and fiction TimeLine Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of "Lifespan of a Fact," a comedy by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell about an inter...
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Good News Sunday: St. Charles baker's hobby lands her on Food Network's 'Halloween Cookie Challenge'Oct 29, 2023 6:00 am - Good News Sunday: St. Charles baker's hobby lands her on Food Network's 'Halloween Cookie Challenge'
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'Five Nights'' intriguing premise undermined by simply terrible storytellingOct 26, 2023 3:00 pm - “Five Nights at Freddy's” — ★ Just in time to ruin Halloween weekend for true horror film afficionados, Emma Tammi's “Five Nights at Freddy's” gives us one of the s...