Performing Arts
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Weekend picks: I Fight Dragons takes on Lincoln HallDec 23, 2017 6:00 am - I Fight Dragons at Lincoln Hall Their catalog is already packed with catchy songs (including a couple of surprisingly beautiful ballads), but Chicago pop-rock band I Fig...
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Constable: Worldwide fame for 'accidental tenor' from Hawthorn WoodsDec 23, 2017 12:00 am - When his boss wouldn't let Donald Kaasch out of work to attend the birth of his daughter in 1986, a co-worker came to the Hawthorn Woods man's defense. World-renowned te...
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5 things to do this weekend in the suburbsDec 22, 2017 9:30 am - Light up your holiday at Morton Arboretum's Illumination Saturday or get in a laugh or two at "The Second City's Nut-Cracking Holiday Revue." Here are five ways to have ...
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Weekend picks: Modern Day Romeos play 'Home for the Holidays' at RaueDec 22, 2017 5:00 am - Banding together Modern Day Romeos and Lava Rock are the guest bands appearing in Williams Street Repertory's series of concerts called "Home for the Holidays - A Collab...
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20-somethings negotiate friendship, intimacy in Steppenwolf's uneven 'BLKS'Dec 20, 2017 10:00 am - “BLKS” - ★ ★ ½ Watching Steppenwolf Theatre's premiere of “BLKS,” Aziza Barnes' noisy, uneven new comedy about 20-something African-American women negotiating friendship...
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Weekly picks: Standup takes Pat Tomasulo from screen to stageDec 20, 2017 5:00 am - Newscaster laughter See a Wednesday preview of the new program "Man of the People with Pat Tomasulo" or see the WGN newscaster perform a standup comedy show on Thursday ...
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Theater events: Music Theater Works' 'Peter Pan' flies into Evanston's CahnDec 19, 2017 5:00 am - Off to Neverland Music Theater Works concludes its season with the family-friendly musical "Peter Pan," based on the J.M. Barrie tale about a boy who refuses to grow up....
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Des Plaines hopes to force sale of shuttered downtown theaterDec 19, 2017 12:00 am - Des Plaines will pursue eminent domain proceedings to forcibly acquire the 92-year-old Des Plaines Theatre, after the theater's owner says he rejected the city's "low ba...
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Tickets go on sale for 'Darci Lynne and Friends Live'Dec 19, 2017 12:00 am - Tickets go on sale Wednesday morning for "Darci Lynne and Friends Live" at the Rosemont Theatre, featuring the winner of the most recent season of "America's Got Talent....
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Weekend picks: 'Nutcrackers' aplenty across the suburbsDec 17, 2017 6:29 am - Traditional Tchaikovsky The von Heidecke Chicago Festival Ballet teams up with the New Philharmonic for another annual run of "The Nutcracker" this weekend at College of...