Performing Arts
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Most Broadway shows offer half-off ticket deals this monthJan 11, 2016 5:00 am - NEW YORK - Big sales in January apply to Broadway, too. Some 27 shows are participating in Broadway Week, in which two tickets go for the price of one. These special tic...
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'Love, Loss, What I Wore' opens Big Noise seasonJan 11, 2016 12:00 am - The Big Noise Theatre Company in Des Plaines will open the 2016 season with "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," an intimate collection of stories written by Nora Ephron and D...
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Naperville theater puts spin on 'Mary Poppins' with revolving stageJan 11, 2016 12:00 am - Magical Starlight Theatre's version of "Mary Poppins" couldn't happen without a huge turntable. Not the one you'd play old Prince records on, though. This one is all abo...
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Sunday picks: Hold on to that bull!Jan 10, 2016 5:45 am - Hanging on! The top 35 bull riders will try to hang on to bucking bovines when the 2016 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Built Ford Tough Series launches its second d...
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Bollywood comes to Schaumburg for charityJan 10, 2016 12:00 am - Indian dancers in brightly colored costumes entertained a crowded house Sunday during the presentation of "Kathak Bollywood" at the Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaum...
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Weekend picks: Catch SEMPLE at Durty Nellie'sJan 09, 2016 5:45 am - Simply Semple With a voice made to belt out arena rock songs yet expressive enough to coax poetry out of song, Northern Ireland-born Keith Semple has journeyed thro...
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Weekend picks: 'Fifty States of Gay' sketch revue plays MetropolisJan 08, 2016 4:15 am - Equality comedy GayCo, Chicago's longest-running gay and lesbian sketch comedy troupe, revives its 2015 revue “Fifty States of Gay” for one show only tonight at the Metr...
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Marriott pushes boundaries with 'Spring Awakening'Jan 08, 2016 4:00 am - When it came time for Marriott Theatre artistic director Aaron Thielen to “throw his hat in the ring as a director,” one show came to mind. It was “Spring Awakening,” th...
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Who's ready to see a play set in a hotel _ at a hotel?
Jan 07, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A play that imagines what it might have been like had Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe DiMaggio and Sen. Joe McCarthy met in a hotel room in 1953 wil...
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Benefit to fight pulmonary fibrosis draws 4 Tony winners