Performing Arts
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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...
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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...