Performing Arts
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Batavia play focuses on Mary Todd Lincoln's life after the White HouseSep 27, 2014 8:01 am - The life of Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of President Abraham Lincoln, is the subject of an original work by Batavia playwright Donna Latham. "The Haunted Widow Lincoln," La...
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Brilliant new biography of Tennessee WilliamsSep 27, 2014 6:30 am - When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was place...
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Sunday picks: The Black Keys bring Cage to the United CenterSep 27, 2014 6:00 am - All keyed up Hear song hits like “Tighten Up,” “Lonely Boy” and more when The Black Keys brings its Turn Blue World Tour with Cage the Elephant this weekend to the ...
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Weekend picks: Scotty McCreery helps you get your country onSep 27, 2014 6:00 am - Country idol Scotty McCreery, the season 10 winner of “American Idol,” performs country hits like “See You Tonight,” “The Trouble with Girls” and more on Saturday a...
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Theater events: The Sweat Girls turn 21Sep 26, 2014 6:15 am - Koy at the Improv Comedian Jo Koy, a frequent panelist on “Chelsea Lately,” which ended its seven-year run on E! last month, headlines the Chicago Improv in Schaumb...
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NYC photo show looks back at Debbie Harry's careerSep 26, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Forty-one years after Blondie hit the music scene, frontwoman Debbie Harry is looking back - but not through her music. Instead, band co-founder Chris Stein ...
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'Native Son' a remarkable adaptation of a classicSep 26, 2014 5:15 am - “Native Son” is as uncompromising onstage as it is on the page. Nambi E. Kelley gets everything right in her astutely crafted adaptation of Richard Wright's seminal 194...
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Metropolis will close next month without more fundingSep 26, 2014 1:01 am - The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre notified Arlington Heights officials this week that it will have to close at the end of October unless the village provides almost ...
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Metropolis' 'Dial "M” for Murder' needs more suspenseSep 25, 2014 1:30 pm - Murder onstage rarely elicits from an audience the kind of scattered, nervous chuckles that on Sunday accompanied the death of a would-be killer in Metropolis Performing...
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Weekend picks: White Mystery plays Lombard's BrauerhouseSep 24, 2014 9:00 am - More Mystery Chicago garage-rock band White Mystery is about as stripped-down as you can get — two performers (Alex White and her brother, Francis Scott Key White),...