Performing Arts
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Theater events: Steel Beam hosts picnic and a showJul 11, 2013 6:00 am - A picnic and a performance Steel Beam Theatre stages “Icarus' Mother,” Sam Shepard's apocalyptic one-act from 1965 about five people on a holiday picnic and the underlyi...
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Palatine theater community mourns ‘Sandy’ SandquistJul 10, 2013 2:36 pm - By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald correspondent The Palatine theater community has taken another hit, with the passing of Elroy “Sandy” Sandquist, founder and driving for...
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“Jew in the City” creator coming to Northbrook TheatreJul 09, 2013 4:55 pm - Allison Josephs, whose “Jew in the City” YouTube videos have garnered more than 1 million views, is making her first Chicago area appearance Sunday, July 21, at Northbro...
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‘Dancing With the Stars’ pros wrestle with tangoJul 09, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — In a sweltering midtown dance studio, two professionals from “Dancing With the Stars” were having the tables turned on them. On this recent afternoon, they we...
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Second group of Suburban Chicago's Got Talent finalists prepare to performJul 05, 2013 6:00 am - Fifteen acts have already performed and 15 more are ready to go in Suburban Chicago's Got Talent, a summer-long competition presented by the Daily Herald, produced by th...
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Goodman's enchanting 'Jungle Book' delights the ears and eyesJul 05, 2013 6:00 am - Sixteen months after The Goodman Theatre announced artistic associate Mary Zimmerman would helm a stage adaptation of "The Jungle Book," the highly anticipated productio...
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Much ado at Metropolis: 'Shakespeare' delivers the laughsJul 04, 2013 6:00 am - The comedy “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” certainly feels like a host production by the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, but it's not. Playing...
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Theater events: St. Charles' Zanies hosts standup comic Ms. PatJul 04, 2013 6:00 am - Ms. Pat tells all Standup comedian Ms. Pat has gone from selling drugs on the streets of Atlanta as a teenage mom to performing on Nickelodeon's “Mom's Night Out,” ...
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Dialogue, acting carry Huff's screwball dramedyJul 03, 2013 2:30 pm - There are several cringe-inducing scenes in “Big Lake Big City,” a noirish, black comedy/murder mystery by Arlington Heights playwright Keith Huff (“Mad Men,” “House of ...
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‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ comes to St. James ParishJul 02, 2013 12:21 pm - Do you remember the classic tale of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, Huck Finn, Aunt Polly, Injun Joe and a certain whitewashed picket fence? Now add colorful period costumes...