Performing Arts
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Broadway, TV star Mandy Patinkin headlines McAninch Arts Center this fallAug 23, 2023 12:00 pm - Tony and Emmy Award-winner Mandy Patinkin ("Evita," "Chicago Hope") is coming to the suburbs. The "Homeland" and "Sunday in the Park with George" star performs his solo...
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Best Bets: Comedian Jay Pharoah, rocker Rick Springfield, LatiNxt at Navy Pier and moreAug 23, 2023 6:00 am - Forge Art Fest The Forge: Lemont Quarries adventure park, at 227 Heritage Quarries Drive, Lemont, expands its programming this weekend to include an art festival featuri...
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On stage: 'Little Shop of Horrors' takes over Paramount stage while Drury Lane celebrates Johnny CashAug 23, 2023 6:00 am - BET salutes soul music Black Ensemble Theater pays tribute to soul music and such seminal artists as Al Green, Gladys Knight, Barry White, and Ashford and Simpson, among...
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Wheaton's Shakespeare in the Park Aug. 24 show canceled due to heatAug 22, 2023 11:00 pm - Due to the excessive heat warning, Wheaton College's Arena Theater is canceling the Thursday, Aug. 24, performance of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." The Shakespeare in t...
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Theodore Roosevelt to take the stage for Oct. 21 fundraiser at Raue Center for the ArtsAug 22, 2023 11:00 pm - See history come alive when scholar, writer and historical interpreter Clay Jenkinson steps into the shoes of the 28th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt...
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Arena Theater's annual Shakespeare in the Park to feature 'Twelfth Night' Aug. 24-26Aug 21, 2023 11:00 pm - Due to the excessive heat warning, Wheaton College's Arena Theater is canceling the Thursday, Aug. 24, performance of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." The Shakespeare ...
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Jamie Campbell's Big Dad Energy coming to Elgin Fringe Fest Sept. 8-10Aug 21, 2023 11:00 pm - In the midst of a national tour, critically acclaimed comedian Jamie Campbell's Big Dad Energy will be making a stop in Elgin as part of this year's Fringe Festival. Th...
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'The Essential Houdini' opens fall Wednesdays @ One season Sept. 27Aug 21, 2023 11:00 pm - A performance of "The Essential Houdini," by storyteller and magician Bill Pack, will kick off the fall season of "Wednesdays @ One" events, presented at 1 p.m. Sept. 27...
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Ron Cephas Jones, 'This Is Us' actor who won 2 Emmys, dies at 66
Aug 20, 2023 1:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Ron Cephas Jones, a veteran stage actor who won two Emmy Awards for his role as a long-lost father who finds redemption on the NBC television drama series ...
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Respect for the material animates Jeff Award-winner Nathaniel Stampley's approach to Marriott's 'Gypsy'Aug 19, 2023 6:00 am - Early on, Nathaniel Stampley knew music would be part of his life. The son of a pastor father and a musician mother, who sang and played the organ at the couple's churc...