Performing Arts
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Dance show in Mundelein:Sep 30, 2014 1:01 am - Mundelein High School will host an Orchesis dance show Monday, Oct. 6. It will begin at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium, 1350 W. Hawley St. The show will feature dances ...
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Village Theatre Guild to stage 'Grace & Glorie'Sep 29, 2014 11:00 pm - Glen Ellyn's Village Theatre Guild will present the comedy/drama "Grace & Glorie" weekends, Oct. 17 to Nov. 8, at its stage near the northwest corner of Park Boulevard a...
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'Evil Dead' musical bedeviled by clichés, tired jokesSep 28, 2014 6:30 am - A fan-favorite moment of the "Evil Dead" series of comic horror films happens after the main character, Ash, equips himself with a chain-saw to battle a nasty group of d...
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A dark and dangerous 'Don Giovanni'Sep 28, 2014 1:00 am - Updated Mozart masterpiece opens Lyric Opera of Chicago's 60th anniversary season
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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 ...