Performing Arts
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Weekend picks: Everybody wants to be seeing the BoDeansDec 27, 2014 5:00 am - Rock standards See the Wisconsin-native rock band the BoDeans at two locations this weekend: first at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles, $39-$89, (88...
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Sunday picks: Whet your whistle for GlobetrottersDec 27, 2014 5:00 am - B-ball ambassadors Bring the kids to be amazed at the comic basketball athleticism of the Harlem Globetrotters. The team plays four games today and Monday at the Al...
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Guitarist doesn't miss day of Vegas Cirque workDec 27, 2014 12:01 am - LAS VEGAS - It's easy to miss Bruce Rickerd during the "Mystere" show at Treasure Island especially when there's a man balancing upside-down on the foot of another, or a...
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Theater events: Sasheer Zamata plays Zanies RosemontDec 26, 2014 8:00 am - Exit 2014 laughing “Saturday Night Live” featured player Sasheer Zamata headlines Zanies Rosemont on New Year's Eve. Known for her impressions of Michelle Obama and...
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Weekend picks: Hdynation Tour brings house music homeDec 26, 2014 7:00 am - Chicago house Groove out with Chicago-based J2K and Autobot as Flosstradamus brings the Hdynation Tour home to the Aragon Entertainment Center, 1106 W. Lawrence Ave...
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Some suburban theaters soar, but others take a final bowDec 26, 2014 4:30 am - During a year in which Paramount Theatre in Aurora's profile continued to soar in its first Jeff Award eligible season and Writers Theatre in Glencoe broke ground on wha...
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Elgin Theatre Company to present "Leading Ladies"Dec 25, 2014 10:00 pm - The Elgin Theatre Company will present "Leading Ladies," a comedy by Ken Ludwig, on Jan. 9-25, at Kimball Street Theater, at Kimball Street and Dundee Avenue in Elgin. T...
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Short & Sweet critic Linda Rosen reviews Cinderella with Diana Martinez of Broadway in ChicagoDec 24, 2014 12:01 am - Short and Sweet guest critic, Linda Rosen of Buffalo Grove, has a particularly unique perspective of Cinderella -- she once played Cinderella in a school play. Rosen wa...
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Short & Sweet critic Melanie Andreani reviews Newsies with Diana Martinez of Broadway in ChicagoDec 24, 2014 12:01 am - Short & Sweet guest critic Melanie Andreani of Palatine found herself completely sucked into the plot and the characters of Broadway in Chicago's production of Newsies. ...
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Music director from Arlington Heights on Broadway this holidayDec 23, 2014 4:00 am - Broadway doesn't really take a Christmas break, so neither does music director and conductor James Moore, a native of Arlington Heights. Instead of celebrating in the s...