Performing Arts
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Best bets: Spend an 'An Evening with Travis Tritt' at the GeneseeOct 20, 2019 7:00 am - Heralding the hunt Conductor Nicholas Kraemer leads the Music of the Baroque in hunting-inspired pieces in the concert “The Chase - Haydn, Handel & Rameau” this week at ...
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Weekend picks: Kansas carries on at Waukegan's GeneseeOct 19, 2019 7:31 am - Costumed canines A Pet Costume Parade & Contest is just one of many family-friendly activities at the Fall Fest on Saturday at Randhurst Village, 1 Randhurst Village Dri...
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Youth theater group to present 'Seussical the Musical' in Des PlainesOct 19, 2019 7:15 am - Join The Cat in the Hat on a whimsical journey from the Jungle of Nool, to Circus McGurkus, to the tiny land of Who as he tells of the adventures of Horton the Elephant,...
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Ravinia's leader stepping down after 2020 season
Oct 19, 2019 1:00 am - Welz Kauffman, the Ravinia Festival president and CEO who has helmed the world-renowned music behemoth in Highland Park for nearly two decades, will be stepping down fro...
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Traditional dancers dazzle at Trickster Art Gallery in SchaumburgOct 19, 2019 1:00 am - Traditional dances from around the world were on display Saturday at the Trickster Art Gallery in Schaumburg. Dancers from the Filipino, Japanese, Aztec and Maori commun...
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On stage: First Floor stages Chicago premiere of 'Sugar in Our Wounds'Oct 18, 2019 6:00 am - • While the Civil War rages, a young slave and his plantation family take in a stranger, an act that sparks an unexpected romance in "Sugar in Our Wounds" by Donja R. Lo...
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Downers Grove actress sends up '80s sitcom in Handbag's 'Facts of Life'Oct 18, 2019 6:00 am - In 2015, aspiring actress Alexa Castelvecchi, then a student at Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts, wasn't doing much acting. "I had not been cast...
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Dancers to perform 'Thriller' dance Oct. 29 on Second Street in GenevaOct 17, 2019 11:30 am - When director John Landis and pop King Michael Jackson delivered the “Thriller” dance video in 1983, most everyone who set eyes on it felt they were seeing something spe...
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Mundelein High's Meier rewarded for building love of theater, student talentOct 17, 2019 9:00 am - Jonathan Meier's career didn't always revolve around a stage. After earning his bachelor's degree in speech and theater education, the St. Louis native came to Chicago ...
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Meet the playwright behind a 'deeply raw space' on Broadway
Oct 15, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Playwright Jeremy O. Harris has a rule that he doesn't cry in public. He broke that rule the night Rihanna attended his Broadway debut. Harris uses the s...