Performing Arts
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Britney Spears’ Las Vegas residency a departureDec 28, 2013 9:30 am - Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Britney Spears has begun her early retirement in Las Vegas with a show that looks strikingly like the eye-popping Cirque du Soleil productio...
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May Whitney pupils in ‘Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr.’Dec 27, 2013 1:37 pm - Students at Lake Zurich Unit District 95’s May Whitney Elementary School will be performing “Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr.” onstage next month. Fourth- and fifth-graders fro...
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The AP picks its Top 10 theater of 2013Dec 27, 2013 5:03 am - NEW YORK — This year’s best-in-theater list is overstuffed: There are revolting children, classic plays and circus acrobats. There are two knights playing two clowns and...
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Theater events: Black Ensemble extends 'Curtis Mayfield'Dec 27, 2013 4:30 am - Ÿ Black Ensemble Theater has extended its original production of “It's All-Right to Have a Good Time: The Story of Curtis Mayfield.” Performances continue through March ...
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Chicago area loses its own icons in 2013Dec 26, 2013 4:46 am - Writers, actors, ball players, radio icons and more - in 2013 the region lost some famous people who were part of the Chicago area family. Here is a final look. Kare...
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Magician Bill Blagg to wow the crowd at the Paramount SaturdayDec 26, 2013 4:30 am - Bill Blagg's magic and illusion act these days includes a Hoverboard zooming across the stage — a far cry from his start making quarters disappear as a kid growing up in...
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Theater program teaches young women to think criticallyDec 25, 2013 11:00 pm - "Where are all the female critics?" That question - raised more than seven years ago as part of a panel discussion sponsored by the Association for Women Journalists - ...
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Best bets: Harlem Globetrotters amuse, amaze at AllstateDec 23, 2013 4:45 am - Top pick B-ball fun The Harlem Globetrotters, the world-famous comedy and exhibition basketball team, makes a return to the Chicago area for two games at the A...
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Ailey's Rushing, front and center after 2 decadesDec 22, 2013 4:30 am - NEW YORK — When Matthew Rushing was a young boy growing up in Inglewood, Calif., his mother was concerned he might fall prey to the gang violence that plagued the area. ...
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'American Psycho' musical looks like a bloody hitDec 21, 2013 4:45 am - LONDON — Is any subject too macabre to make a musical? Not on the evidence of past works including Stephen Sondheim's “Sweeney Todd,” about a homicidal barber, and his p...