Performing Arts
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Federal tax code change will help live theater nationwide
Dec 17, 2015 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Live commercial theater from Broadway to Los Angeles is about to get a huge financial boost under a federal tax code change that's been championed by U.S...
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Steppenwolf's tart 'Domesticated' looks at morality, monogamy in the political realmDec 16, 2015 10:00 am - "Domesticated," a tart, darkly comic meditation on morality, monogamy and marriage against the backdrop of politics, suggests that attempting to tame the human male isn'...
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Broadway's 41st theater will be the Hudson Theatre
Dec 16, 2015 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Broadway will soon have a new place to play - its 41st theater. The Ambassador Theatre Group said Wednesday it will reopen and operate Broadway's Hudson ...
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Lucy Prebble's 'The Effect' to land at Barrow Street Theatre
Dec 16, 2015 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - British playwright Lucy Prebble's "The Effect," about the relationship between science and love, will make its North American debut this spring at the Ba...
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Theater events: 'Bad Jews' at Royal George to close Dec. 27Dec 15, 2015 10:00 pm - 'Jews' bids farewell Theater Wit's acclaimed, oft-extended world premiere of Joshua Harmon's comedy "Bad Jews" - the most successful production in the theater's 11-...
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'Life and Adventures of Santa Claus' comes to Palatine stageDec 14, 2015 10:00 pm - Palatine Park District presents three performances of "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" on Dec. 21, 22, and 23. These Family Friendly Theatre performances will be...
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Josh Groban eyes Broadway, says he's in that 'headspace'
Dec 14, 2015 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Josh Groban will be following up his album of Broadway standards by doing it for real - singing on a Broadway stage for the first time. "I was kind of in...
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The AP picks its top theater of 2015
Dec 14, 2015 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - This year's best-in-theater lists are going to be anticlimactic. There's one listing that will surely be at the top of every critic's round-up. But there...
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Metropolis has got itself turned aroundDec 14, 2015 4:00 am - Hats off to the team now running the show at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre. New Executive/Artistic Director Joe Keefe seems to have found the formula for consistentl...
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Lake Zurich High's Bare Voices sing holiday favoritesDec 14, 2015 12:00 am - Lake Zurich High School's Bare Voices choral group sang songs of the season Monday at the Ela Area Public Library. Eighteen singers entertained the audience, including m...