Performing Arts
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Feder: One-woman show 'Reporting Live: I'm Ana Belaval' goes onstageFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - Ana Belaval, the multitalented "Around Town" reporter on the top-rated "WGN Morning News," is about to star in her own one-woman comedy show, Robert Feder writes. "...
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Schaumburg theater company helps special needs actors thriveFeb 21, 2020 12:00 am - For four years, Natalie Tittle has played smaller, mostly nonverbal parts in a Schaumburg-based community theater's productions. The 20-year-old has undiagnosed developm...
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Adrian Zmed brings 'Middletown' to his hometown - ChicagoFeb 20, 2020 5:00 am - Actor Adrian Zmed returns to his old neighborhood to star in Dan Clancy's play "Middletown" at Chicago's Apollo Theater. "I had a blessed childhood," said Zmed, who grew...
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Aurora's Copley Theatre debuts Bold SeriesFeb 20, 2020 12:00 am - Paramount Theatre's announcement Thursday of its new Bold Series at the 165-seat Copley Theatre raises the curtain on what Paramount representatives have described as an...
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Highland Avenue Church to host Feb. 29 play about stolen indigenous landsFeb 19, 2020 10:00 pm - Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Elgin is staging "We Own This Now," a play that will look at love of land, loss of land, and what it means to "own" something. ...
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Sandra Bland's death inspires haunting 'graveyard shift' at Goodman TheatreFeb 19, 2020 2:00 pm - Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. The thought persisted as I watched a character in the achingly poetic play “graveyard shift” come to a devastating decision. I kn...
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Best Bets: Catch The Lumineers at Allstate, Lake County Craft Beer Fest in GrayslakeFeb 19, 2020 5:00 am - Ho hey Catch The Lumineers as the band performs music from its latest album as part of "III: The World Tour" with guest Mt. Joy and J.S. Ondara this weekend at the ...
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Spotlight: Friendships falter in Steel Beam's '20th Century Blues'Feb 19, 2020 5:00 am - Friends remembered Four female friends meet annually for a photo shoot that chronicles their changing selves in "20th Century Blues." However, longtime friendships are t...
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Naperville Black History event to showcase Civil Rights songsFeb 19, 2020 12:00 am - "Songs of the Civil Rights Movement" will be the focus of the sixth annual Black History Month Showcase in Naperville Unit District 203. Put on by the SUCCESS parent gr...
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Dundee-Crown High School to put on 'The Addams Family' March 5-8Feb 18, 2020 10:00 pm - Dundee-Crown High School presents the musical comedy "The Addams Family, A New Musical." Show dates are 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, March 5-6; 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Mar...