Performing Arts
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Simply charming: Metropolis’ ‘Cinderella’ features able singer-actors, first-rate orchestraOct 02, 2024 5:26 pm - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre newcomer Molly Bremer makes a charming debut as the winsome Ella in the Arlington Heights theater’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.”
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Best Bets: Great Highwood Pumpkin Fest, Lewis Black, New PhilharmonicOct 02, 2024 11:40 am - The Great Highwood Pumpkin Fest takes over Highwood, comedian Lewis Black brings his farewell tour to the North Shore Center, The Morton Arboretum hosts its Cider and Ale Fest, and conductor Kirk Muspratt starts his 20th season with The New Philharmonic.
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Buffalo Theatre wins first Jeff award; Marriott’s ‘Beautiful,’ Drury Lane’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’ pick up multiple awardsSep 30, 2024 11:15 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble received its first Joseph Jefferson Award for Aly Greaves Amidei’s costumes for “Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley” during Monday’s 56th Jeff Awards ceremony at Drury Lane Theatre.
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Spotlight: Shattered Globe, Goodman stage local premieresSep 30, 2024 10:37 pm - Shattered Globe Theatre re-examines the legacy of the Salem witch trials in the Midwest premiere of “Becky Nurse of Salem” by Wilmette native Sarah Ruhl.
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Arts DuPage and JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund offer public art grantSep 30, 2024 10:39 am - Arts DuPage, a DuPage Foundation initiative, and the JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of DuPage Foundation, invite DuPage County communities and not-for-profit organizations to apply for a grant to support public art.
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Prepare to be dazzled: Brilliantly staged, expertly acted ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ a feast for the eyes, earsSep 27, 2024 12:47 pm - The magic that happens during “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the superbly staged, boffo Broadway show that launched its national tour at the James M. Nederlander Theatre, goes beyond the everyday theatrical magic.
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Ferociously funny: Comic mayhem is marvelously managed in Steppenwolf’s ‘Noises Off’Sep 25, 2024 9:33 am - If you’ve never seen Michael Frayn’s classic backstage farce “Noises Off” — or even if you have — do yourself a favor and check out Steppenwolf Theatre’s first-class, funny revival.
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Spotlight: Aurora’s Paramount revives ‘An Act of God’ comedySep 23, 2024 5:51 pm - The Almighty pays a return visit to earth to amend his commandments in “An Act of God” beginning previews Oct. 2 at Aurora’s Copley Theatre.
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Best Bets: Jack O’Lantern World, ‘AGT’ vets Malevo, The Capitol Fools and moreSep 23, 2024 3:33 pm - The Halloween extravaganza Jack O’Lantern World opens in Lake Zurich, plus the McAninch Arts Center welcomes Argentinean dance ensemble and “America’s Got Talent” veterans Malevo and political satirists The Capitol Fools.
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From ballet to jazz to folk, Chicago’s fall dance season features all the movesSep 23, 2024 2:39 pm - Chicago’s 2024-25 dance season is full of new works, captivating collaborations and welcome revivals. There’s something for everyone with the Windy City’s famed dance companies that specialize in ballet, modern and folk dance traditions.
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