Performing Arts
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Audra McDonald, Bryan Cranston, NPH win TonysJun 08, 2014 1:00 am - NEW YORK — The murderous romp “A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder” has gotten a lot of love at the Tony Awards — it nabbed the best new musical trophy on a night tha...
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How meeting her idol changed Jesse Mueller's lifeJun 07, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK - When Jesse Mueller first sat behind the piano to portray Carole King on Broadway, she had no idea what kind of year she was going to have. It was when the rea...
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Sunday picks: British comedian Eddie Izzard plays ChicagoJun 07, 2014 5:00 am - Comedy from the hip: Acclaimed British actor and comedian Eddie Izzard holds court with his hilarious comic ramblings at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State St., Chica...
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Weekend picks: Cher is always a sight to beholdJun 07, 2014 5:00 am - Turn back time: Expect plenty of over-the-top stage spectacle when legendary pop diva Cher brings her Dressed to Kill (D2K) Tour with opening act Cyndi Lauper on Sat...
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Sting gives Wayne native big break on 'Last Ship'Jun 06, 2014 5:30 am - Wayne native Martha McDonnell will miss her college graduation ceremonies later this month from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. The reason? Sting hired her to play...
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Sting musical launches in Chicago before cruising off to BroadwayJun 06, 2014 5:30 am - Growing up in the former shipbuilding town of Wallsend in Northern England, singer-songwriter Sting remembers being terrified by the enormous ships and the apocalyptic n...
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'Ask Aunt Susan' exposes online exploitationJun 06, 2014 5:30 am - In Seth Bockley's "Ask Aunt Susan," a cocky twenty-something tech guy becomes an Internet sensation as a phony female advice columnist. The plot of the drama, in a world...
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A new start for Suburban Chicago's Got Talent contest and contestantsJun 06, 2014 5:00 am - Singers, musicians, magicians, more perform on first day of auditions
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Theater events: 'Annapurna' a cowboy tale of sortsJun 05, 2014 11:00 pm - Midwest premiere A woman tracks down the cowboy-poet husband she left 20 years earlier at his battered Colorado trailer where he's working on his “magnum opus” in S...
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Led Zeppelin reissues offer meager fareJun 04, 2014 5:00 am - Led Zeppelin, "Led Zeppelin," "Led Zeppelin II" and "Led Zeppelin III" (Atlantic) Perhaps we should admit the truth about Led Zeppelin: It's time to move on. Yes, e...