Performing Arts
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Weekend picks: Fortunate Sons channel CCRJan 04, 2014 4:45 am - Folk tribute Fox Valley Repertory presents the band Fortunate Sons, which performs a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute act Saturday at Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 ...
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Elling to play McAninch in FebruaryJan 03, 2014 2:03 pm - Grammy Award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling will perform works from his latest album, “1619 Broadway — The Brill Building Project,” for a Valentine’s Day weekend concert a...
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Chicago native getting into the spirit of musical 'Ghost'Jan 03, 2014 4:30 am - Chicago native Carla R. Stewart has an ambition to appear onstage in three recent Broadway musicals that have been adapted from films that starred Whoopi Goldberg. Ste...
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Albright Theatre to hold auditions for Albee classicJan 02, 2014 9:21 am - Submitted by Albright Theatre Company The Albright Theatre Company will hold auditions for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, and Monday, Jan...
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Theater events: Start 2014 laughing with Steve CochranJan 02, 2014 5:00 am - ‘Funny: 2014' Full-time WGN radio personality and part-time standup comedian Steve Cochran headlines the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's first comedy show of 20...
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Weekend picks: Comedian April Macie hits ZaniesDec 31, 2013 4:45 am - 'Standing' comic Comedian April Macie, a famed finalist of “Last Comic Standing” and a frequent guest on “The Howard Stern Show,” performs this weekend at two Zanie...
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New Year's Eve options still plentiful in suburbsDec 31, 2013 4:00 am - New Year's Eve options are plentiful for procrastinators
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Britney Spears begins long-term Las Vegas gigDec 30, 2013 5:00 am - Britney Spears has begun her early retirement in Las Vegas with a show that looks strikingly like the eye-popping Cirque du Soleil productions found elsewhere on the Str...
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Best bets: Cheerleaders bring it on at Winter MeltdownDec 30, 2013 4:30 am - Top pick Rah! Rah! Rah! See which of 75 Illinois cheering and dance squads come out on top at the Winter Meltdown IHSA Cheerleading & Dance Competition Saturda...
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Carly Rae Jepsen heads to Broadway next yearDec 29, 2013 6:26 pm - NEW YORK — “Call Me Maybe” singer Carly Rae Jepsen has had her calls returned by Broadway. Producers of “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” said Sunday that the Canadia...