Performing Arts
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Weekend picks: It's time to light the lightsDec 22, 2014 4:05 pm - FRIDAY Symphony in Lights See 250,000 colorful LED lights that are part of the annual Symphony in Lights holiday show at The Promenade Bolingbrook, 631 E. Boug...
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Martha Plimpton: 'I don't want to be just famous'Dec 22, 2014 5:01 am - NEW YORK - To the audience watching the opening act of "A Delicate Balance" on Broadway, a gentle word of warning: Martha Plimpton is listening to you. The actress is ba...
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It's time to put a bullet in MetropolisDec 22, 2014 4:01 am - Does it take $24,000 for this village to realize that it has a white elephant on its hands? That amount can be added to the thousands already squandered feeding this dea...
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NYC theater plans live reading of 'The Interview'Dec 21, 2014 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - Sony may have scrapped the release of the movie "The Interview," but it will be in at least at one theater in New York City - onstage, that is. Treehouse ...
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Sunday picks: Frozemont welcomes all skatersDec 21, 2014 6:00 am - Frozemont Step onto the ice at the NHL-sized outdoor Frozemont ice rink at MB Financial Park at Rosemont, 5501 Park Place, Rosemont. Skating runs through Sunday, Ma...
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Weekend picks: Revisionist 'Christmas Carol'Dec 20, 2014 6:00 am - SATURDAY Revisionist Dickens The Organic Theater Company offers a different take on Charles Dickens' holiday classic by presenting Tom Mula's “Jacob Marley's C...
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Freud's goal: Keep Chicago's Lyric Opera relevantDec 20, 2014 5:30 am - CHICAGO — When Anthony Freud was 14, his favorite pastime was going to the opera in London and then, on the train ride home to Wimbledon where he lived with his parents,...
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Theater events: Light Opera Works updates 'Widow'Dec 19, 2014 6:00 am - LOW's ‘Merry Widow' Stacey Tappan stars as Hanna Glawari in Light Opera Works' production of the Franz Lehar opera “The Merry Widow.” Reprising the role she played ...
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With 'Diner,' Sheryl Crow segues to the stageDec 19, 2014 5:01 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When Gene Kelly gazed into the camera, 9-year-old Sheryl Crow of Kennett, Missouri, imagined he was getting ready to sing just for her. "I loved him s...
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Bold, engaging 'Airline Highway' a show worth seeingDec 19, 2014 5:00 am - If there is an heir apparent to the late Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled society's fringe dwellers in such plays as “Balm in Gilead”...