Performing Arts
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Suburban park district dance troupes performing benefit show for Highland ParkAug 09, 2022 1:00 am - Park district dance companies from across the suburbs will hold a benefit dance in Buffalo Grove on Aug. 21, to raise funds for the Highland Park Community Foundation. T...
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Slight alterations needed for 'The Devil Wears Prada' musical in ChicagoAug 08, 2022 1:00 pm - “The Devil Wears Prada, The Musical” - ★ ★ ★ How good can a new musical be if its composer is largely AWOL while the show finds its footing before live preview audience...
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New director brings fresh perspective to Schaumburg's cultural services departmentAug 05, 2022 5:30 am - Tiana Weiler is enthusiastic about her new role leading an engaged and experienced staff to move the village of Schaumburg's cultural services department forward with ar...
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Efforts fail to save historic Alaska theater from demolition
Aug 04, 2022 7:00 am - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie theater designed by the architect of Hollywood's famed Pan...
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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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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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'Chicago' to welcome trans actor Angelica Ross as Roxie HartAug 04, 2022 1:00 am - NEW YORK - "Pose" star Angelica Ross is set to make her Broadway debut in "Chicago" this fall, becoming the first openly transgender actor to play the murderous vixen Ro...
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Audition for CLC theater's 'Lions in Illyria' Aug. 23-24Aug 02, 2022 11:00 pm - Performers ages 16 or older are invited to audition for College of Lake County theater department's young audience production of "Lions in Illyria." Auditions will be h...
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Best Bets: 'I Love the '90s' tour headlines Aurora's RiverEdge ParkAug 02, 2022 6:00 am - Nostalgia trip Revel in the music of Coolio, Vanilla Ice, Rob Base, Color Me Badd, TONE LOC and more during the "I Love the '90s" concert tour at RiverEdge Park, 360 N. ...
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Albright Community Theatre's production of 'columbinus' tackles issues of gun violenceAug 01, 2022 11:00 pm - Albright Community Theatre will be performing "columbinus" on the weekends of Aug. 5-20. Inspired by the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, the play by Stephen Kara...