Performing Arts
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Mirren earns Harvard’s Hasty Pudding awardJan 17, 2014 10:09 am - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren has been named woman of the year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The 68-year-old Mirren ...
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Theater events: Live it up at Marriott's 'Cabaret'Jan 17, 2014 5:00 am - Marriott's ‘Cabaret' Broadway veteran Megan Sikora stars as Sally Bowles, the British chanteuse who seduces aspiring writer Clifford (Patrick Srb) in Marriott Theat...
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Re-imagined 'Phantom' as engaging as everJan 15, 2014 10:00 pm - Fear not "Phantom of the Opera" fans. The mist still swirls, the skiff still glides along the underground lake and the chandelier still plummets in the newly re-imagined...
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Metropolis needs changes to surviveJan 15, 2014 4:00 am - A report put together by a volunteer task force outlined numerous problems with the way Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is being run, but officials for the Arlington H...
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Weekend picks: Jon Heder hosts 'Napoleon' screeningsJan 14, 2014 12:00 pm - Vote for Pedro: Actor Jon Heder rose to fame as the star of “Napoleon Dynamite.” He will sign autographs and host screenings of the cult indie film this weekend at t...
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Best bets: Discover the Dinosaurs for yourself in RosemontJan 14, 2014 4:30 am - Top pick Coldblooded crew More than 40 animatronic prehistoric dinosaur replicas return with the interactive Discover the Dinosaurs exhibit this weekend at th...
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Dist. 214 Orchesis groups in national festivalJan 12, 2014 1:44 pm - Wheeling and Prospect high schools’ Orchesis groups have been selected to perform two works each at the biannual National High School Dance Festival in Miami in April. M...
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On the road: Hear wonders of Grammy-nominated Lincoln TrioJan 11, 2014 4:30 am - Chicago Land of Lincoln Trio Chicago's Lincoln Trio, hailed by FANFARE Magazine as “one of the hottest young trios in the business,” received a 2014 Grammy nom...
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Kick Kennedy calls her stage debut ‘magical’Jan 11, 2014 4:00 am - NEW YORK — The storied Kennedy family has produced a president, ambassadors, an attorney general, senators and plenty of congressmen. But not a professional actor. Kathl...
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Mundelein High presents Thornton Wilder’s classic ‘Our Town’Jan 10, 2014 2:54 pm - For its second show of the season called The Year of the Classics, Mundelein High School will present Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” The show will run Thursday, Jan. 30 ...