Performing Arts
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How We Got The Story: Covering theater in pandemic has changed, but rewards remainDec 04, 2021 12:00 am - There was a time when the most pressing challenge a theater critic faced was punctuality: arriving at the venue by curtain time and filing the review on deadline. The C...
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Drury Lane's taptastic 'Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn' serves up seasonal cheerDec 03, 2021 12:00 pm - “Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn” - ★ ★ ★ Like the 1942 film that inspired it, “Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn,” which premiered on Broadway five years ago, is a quaint, jukebo...
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Spotlight on theater: Steel Beam, Raue Center serve up family-friendly holiday fareDec 03, 2021 5:00 am - Holiday pantomime Raue Center for the Arts partners with its school of the arts to produce "A Christmas Carol: A Holiday Pantomime," adapted from Charles Dickens' tale. ...
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Frank, personal 'Stove Toucher' at Buffalo Theatre examines skater kid's past from middle-age perspectiveDec 02, 2021 10:00 am - “Stove Toucher” - ★ ★ ★ If candor makes you uncomfortable, “Stove Toucher,” the new autobiographical play by Kurt Naebig may be too frank for you. A combination coming-...
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AP PHOTOS: Drama festival puts spotlight on Romanian inmates
Dec 02, 2021 6:00 am - BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Performing on the main stage of the Nottara Theatre in downtown Bucharest is a dream of every aspiring artist in Romania, where hundreds of pri...
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'An affirmation': Northbrook orchestra receives anonymous $1 million giftDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - The Northbrook Symphony Orchestra has received an anonymous donation of $1 million, it announced Thursday. The gift to the rare professional municipal orchestra will est...
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WT Productions brings 'Seasonal' tradition back to Vero Voce TheaterNov 30, 2021 10:00 pm - A good tradition always returns, even if it gets interrupted for a year. WT Productions is living that philosophy as it gears up to bring the fourth installment of thei...
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Things to do Dec. 2-9: Holiday light shows, concerts, tree lightings, Santa brunches & moreNov 30, 2021 10:00 pm - Ongoing Festival of Lights and Tree Sale: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily through Thursday, Dec. 30, at Cosley Zoo, 1356 N. Gary Ave., Wheaton. The zoo will be transformed i...
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Defying gravity ... again: 'Wicked' will return to ChicagoNov 30, 2021 5:00 am - “Wicked,” the blockbuster musical whose initial Chicago run grossed more than $200 million, breaking box office records, will return to Chicago next fall, Broadway in Ch...
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Best Bets: Joffrey Ballet's lavish 'Nutcracker' returnsNov 30, 2021 5:00 am - 1893 again The Joffrey Ballet revives Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" in choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's version that resets the action to Chicago in anticipation of...