Performing Arts
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Weekend picks: Mark Normand brings comedy to ZaniesAug 26, 2014 12:15 pm - Comedy guy: If you love comedian Mark Normand from his TV stints on NBC's “Last Comic Standing” or Comedy Central's “@Midnight,” then check out his standup locally a...
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Steel Beam Theatre announces 2014-2015 seasonAug 26, 2014 1:01 am - Steel Beam Theatre in St. Charles on Tuesday announced its 14th season centered on ordinary folks and their sometimes extraordinary experiences. It begins ...
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Lambs Farm theater production:Aug 25, 2014 1:01 am - Lambs Farm's participants will perform their theater production of "Into the Woods Junior" at the Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, an...
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Wheaton's Shakespeare in the Park to feature 'Love's Labour's Lost'Aug 25, 2014 1:01 am - Theater under the summer night sky returns to Wheaton's Memorial Park with Shakespeare in the Park's performance of "Love's Labour's Lost." Performances begin at 7 p.m....
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BrightSide brings professional theater to downtown NapervilleAug 25, 2014 1:01 am - BrightSide Theatre is Naperville's only professional theater performing in the downtown historic district with the mission to "enlighten, educate and entertain" its ...
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Girl who used periwinkle to best leukemia blossoms into comicAug 24, 2014 7:30 am - In 1998, 8-year-old Lisa Mongillo of Arlington Heights took a Make-A-Wish trip to Hawaii to see the periwinkle flower used to make one of the leukemia drugs doctors hoped would save her life. Now, she's a comedian in a two-woman show and works for a charity that helps kids.
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Can Arcada owner turn around Des Plaines theater?Aug 24, 2014 7:00 am - A respected suburban theater owner and concert promoter hopes he can revitalize the shuttered Des Plaines Theatre, but whether he or anyone else will get the chance is i...
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Sunday picks: Meet a few dames to die forAug 24, 2014 6:00 am - Dames to die for: Meet and get autographs this weekend from actresses Patricia Rodriguez Vonne, Crystal McCahill and Rosario Dawson (Aug. 23 and 24 only) before scre...
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Weekend picks: Keb' Mo', G-Love play the ArcadaAug 23, 2014 6:00 am - Blues for you: Celebrated blues musician Keb' Mo' shares a concert bill with G-Love and Special Sauce on Saturday at the Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main St., St. Charles...
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Marriott has a fine day 'On the Town'Aug 22, 2014 2:30 pm - It took 70 years, but "On The Town" - the 1944 Broadway musical about a trio of sailors on a 24-hour shore leave - has finally arrived. Typically, Chicago audiences don'...