Performing Arts
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Theater events: Prairie Center hosts 'Churchill' for one night Oct. 1Sep 28, 2016 6:00 am - Keaton's Churchill Ron Keaton brings his solo show "Churchill" to the Prairie Center for the Arts Saturday. The play unfolds as Winston Churchill recounts his triumphs a...
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Lake Park stages 'Emperor's New Clothes'Sep 27, 2016 11:00 pm - Lake Park High School will launch its 2016-17 theater season with the children's play "The Emperor's New Clothes." In the play, as adapted by Greg Atkins, freshman Jay ...
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Chicago Shakespeare wraps epic with brilliantly acted 'Civil Strife'Sep 27, 2016 11:00 pm - Imagine Chicago Shakespeare Theater's theatrical epic “Tug of War” as a six-course dinner at a three-star Michelin restaurant. Last spring, adapter/director Barbara Gain...
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Stage version of 'Frozen' musical changes its director
Sep 27, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Some changes are coming in the kingdom of Arendelle: Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage has been officially unveiled to helm the upcoming stage...
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A torch is passed at national tour of 'The Curious Incident'
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Steppenwolf's 'Visiting Edna' delivers dramatic punch in the gutSep 27, 2016 6:00 am - The renowned naturalism of the Steppenwolf Theatre gets a hearty dose of meta in “Visiting Edna,” the opening play of artistic director Anna Shapiro's first full season ...
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Independent Players presents a Christopher Durang double billSep 26, 2016 11:00 pm - Throughout its 38 years of producing plays and musicals, Independent Players has featured the works of many well-known late 20th century playwrights. One such playwrigh...
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Lyric Opera staging two epics in one seasonSep 26, 2016 11:00 pm - CHICAGO — The stagehands were having trouble fitting a missing chunk of Carthage into place, but Michael Smallwood wasn't worried. “That's why we have these technical re...
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Palatine High brings 'Noises Off' to the stageSep 25, 2016 11:00 pm - Palatine High School brings the British comedy "Noises Off" by Michael Frayn to life on stage in October. Called one of the funniest plays ever written, this production...
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'Hamilton' aims to wow Chicago theater fansSep 23, 2016 12:00 pm - It's relatively easy for the U.S. Mint to reproduce $10 bills bearing the likeness of America's first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. But it's a whole oth...