Performing Arts
-
Best Bets: Common teams with Chicago Children's Choir for world premiere videoSep 23, 2020 6:00 am - Common premiere Grammy Award-winning hip-hop star Common teams with the Chicago Children's Choir for a music video called "God is Love!" It receives its world premiere a...
-
Spotlight: Live improv returns to Schaumburg's Laugh Out Loud TheaterSep 18, 2020 6:00 am - Laugh live Schaumburg's Laugh Out Loud Theater resumes live performances of its improv show "20,000 Laughs Under the Sea." Temperature checks are required for all patron...
-
Step into the spotlight at Northbrook Theatre this fallSep 17, 2020 11:00 pm - From "Pod Plays" and a virtual show to physically distanced live performances, Northbrook Theatre is offering a creative lineup of performing arts programming this autum...
-
Babes With Blades celebrates female actor/combatantsSep 17, 2020 11:00 pm - Acting, storytelling and physical expression have always intrigued Kathrynne Wolf. As a child, the Mount Prospect native and a friend staged a fight in a library parking...
-
Northbrook Theatre takes the show online!Sep 17, 2020 11:00 pm - Northbrook Park District Performing Arts staff got creative when theater venues closed due to the pandemic, delivering a new kind of experience for youth actors. The Nor...
-
Best Bets: Former 'Jersey Boys' crooners, Felicia Fields take their concerts outdoorsSep 16, 2020 6:00 am - 'Lean on Me' Former “Jersey Boys” stars Michael Ingersoll and Christopher Kale Jones star in an Artists Lounge Live concert “Lean On Me: The Brotherhood of Rock and Roll...
-
Drury Lane's 'An American in Paris' dances away with a leading 12 Jeff Award nominationsSep 15, 2020 9:00 am - In the wake of a 2019-2020 theater season cut short by nearly five months as a result of COVID-19 shutdowns, Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace emerged with a leadin...
-
Rosemont piano bar has likely played its last song, officials saySep 14, 2020 1:00 am - Only open for a couple months before the pandemic struck, Pete's Dueling Piano Bar in Rosemont's entertainment district likely won't reopen as a piano bar if or when thi...
-
Spotlight: Live reading of 'The Glass Menagerie' at redtwist, Hershey Felder channels George GershwinSep 11, 2020 6:00 am - Redtwist live Former Goodman Theatre producer/director and redtwist theatre ensemble member Steve Scott helms the company's live reading of "The Glass Menagerie," Tennes...
-
Psychic by day, stand-up by night - comedian conjures laughs at Chicago's ZaniesSep 09, 2020 11:00 pm - After comedians finish their sets, you might find them swapping stories with colleagues or maybe getting a bite to eat. But not Karen Rontowski. Not when she's in Chicag...