Performing Arts
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Spotlight: Writers Theatre collaborates on digital premiere for timely 'Ride Share'Jun 16, 2021 6:00 am - '50s, '60s Flashback Music Theater Works resumes live, in-person productions with the musical revue "Legends of the '50s and '60s: Greatest Hits." Performed outdoors wi...
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Best Bets: The Obama Portraits head to the Art Institute of ChicagoJun 15, 2021 6:00 am - Presidential portraits Kehinde Wiley's painting of President Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama - known as The Obama Portraits -...
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Chicago 'Blue Man Group' shows to resume in AugustJun 15, 2021 1:00 am - The long-running Chicago production of "Blue Man Group" is set to resume performances on Wednesday, Aug. 18, although some staging changes are in the works due to COVID-...
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Children's Theatre of Elgin to hold first outdoor show -- Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' -- in Wing ParkJun 14, 2021 11:00 pm - Children's Theatre of Elgin and Fox Valley Theatre Company invites the public to "be our guest" at their first live performance after a year and a half - Disney's "Beaut...
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Marquee Youth Stage to put on Sondheim's 'Into the Woods' June 18-20Jun 14, 2021 11:00 pm - Marquee Youth's Conservatory will present the Tony Award-winning musical "Into the Woods" on June 18-20 at the renovated Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St. in St. Charles. ...
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'Where We Stand' from Steppenwolf poses questions, invites conversationJun 11, 2021 6:00 am - In the stage directions for her play "Where We Stand," writer/actor Donnetta Lavinia Grays describes the production as a conversation. Not merely a conversation between ...
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Schaumburg ramping up its concerts, special events as Phase 5 beginsJun 11, 2021 1:00 am - The village of Schaumburg's Cultural Services Department begins a process of ramping up to full activity again with the start of this year's Summer Breeze concert series...
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Original stars joining Broadway's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Jun 10, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Fans of the Broadway adaptation of 'œTo Kill a Mockingbird'ť will get a treat when the show restarts on this fall - Jeff Daniels and Celia Keenan-Bolger,...
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Spotlight: Court Theatre streams Titanic courtroom dramaJun 10, 2021 6:00 am - Survivor's story Court Theatre presents a digital production of "Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912)," a courtroom drama by Owen McCaff...
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Goodman Theatre resumes live, in-person performances July 30Jun 10, 2021 1:00 am - Goodman Theatre marks the resumption of live, in-person performances next month with "School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play," whose Chicago premiere was susp...