Performing Arts
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Best Bets: Hey Nonny celebrates women in jazzDec 30, 2024 9:13 pm - Start 2025 with music and laughter courtesy of Hey Nonny’s Women’s Jazz Festival, comedian Jeff Dye at Zanies Rosemont, and comics Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood at the Rialto.
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Spotlight: ‘Shucked,’ Broadway’s corn-fed tuner, plays CIBC TheatreDec 30, 2024 10:22 am - The Broadway tuner “Shucked” comes to Chicago for a brief run, Pegasus Theatre showcases teen playwrights, and Broadway vet Courtney Reed headlines Elgin’s Hemmens this week in Chicago-area theater.
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10 shows for winter: Local premieres heat up Chicago-area theaterDec 24, 2024 7:59 am - In an effort to entice theater fans from their cozy confines this winter, Chicago-area companies are staging local premieres of Broadway hits along with a smattering of revivals.
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Suburban theater in review: Stolp Island Theatre opens, BTE wins first Jeff Award, Northlight prepares for new homeDec 18, 2024 4:52 pm - This year saw Aurora’s Paramount Theatre open its third venue, Stolp Island Theatre, while Buffalo Theatre Ensemble earned its first Joseph Jefferson Award.
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Holiday tuner alternatives: Music Theater Works’ ‘Legally Blonde’ and BET’s ‘Hitt Records’Dec 17, 2024 4:41 pm - If you’ve had enough of holiday tuners, check out Music Theater Works’ “Legally Blonde” revival or Black Ensemble Theater’s new jukebox musical “Hitt Records.”
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Best Bets: Where to catch ‘The Nutcracker’ before it dances awayDec 17, 2024 12:49 pm - Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake and the James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts in Grayslake are hosting some of the season’s final “Nutcracker” performances this weekend.
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Risé Jones remembered as Elgin’s ‘renaissance woman’Dec 17, 2024 9:14 am - Renaissance woman Risé Dawn Jones, 58, dies suddenly, a leaving a legacy of community leadership and youth arts programs in Elgin.
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Portrait of sisterhood: Beloved classic still resonates in Northlight’s spirited ‘Little Women’Dec 11, 2024 5:00 pm - Northlight Theatre premieres Lauren Gunderson’s ebullient “Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women,” adapted from the beloved novel about four sisters living in 19th century New England.
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Best bets: Elgin Symphony Orchestra, sounds of the season, holiday hilarityDec 10, 2024 10:19 am - This week in the suburbs: Elgin Symphony Orchestra hosts its annual holiday extravaganza; Creative Ice Theatre stages “Nutcracker on Ice” in Woodridge; female comedians headline Crystal Lake’s Raue Center.
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Spotlight: Seasonal fare on suburban stages includes ‘Wonderful Life,’ ‘Christmas Carol,’ Second City sketchesDec 10, 2024 9:48 am - Suburban theaters, including Improv Playhouse and Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, stage seasonal favorites “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Sweater,” respectively, while Strawdog Theatre brings “Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins” to Writers Theatre.