Performing Arts
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Village Theatre Guild to stage avant-garde ‘Next Fall’May 14, 2013 8:08 am - The theater, perhaps more than any art form, is prone to explore topics that are both contemporary, relevant and controversial. In “Next Fall,” the Village Theatre Guil...
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Suburban man the standby star of 'Book of Mormon'May 14, 2013 5:15 am - Eight times a week, Rob Colletti goes down to the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, warms up his vocals, sits in the dressing room while the hit musical "The Book of M...
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Meet the judgesMay 10, 2013 6:00 am - Charlie Beck Executive director of the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre Beck assumed the role of Metropolis' executive director in November 2011 after a decad...
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Goodman's 'Vera Stark' falls short of potentialMay 10, 2013 6:00 am - The subject of Lynn Nottage's “By The Way, Meet Vera Stark” — an examination of racism in 1930s Hollywood — is certainly ripe for satire. The comedy is broad and the dia...
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What you need to know to sign upMay 10, 2013 6:00 am - Here are the basics for the preliminary auditions for Suburban Chicago's Got Talent to be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, June 6 to 8, at the Metr...
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Theater events: 'Black Tie' closes out Steel Beam's seasonMay 10, 2013 6:00 am - Bridal daze Steel Beam Theatre closes its 12th season with “Black Tie,” A. R. Gurney's comedy of manners centered around a family wedding that goes any way but smoo...
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Liberty Town Productions to hold auditions for annual showMay 09, 2013 2:57 pm - Liberty Town Productions is having open auditions for its Fifth Annual Musical Summer Showcase. To be considered, applicants must be a high school graduate or older by A...
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's 'Trumbo' a portrait of the artist as a patriotMay 09, 2013 6:00 am - Not a lot happens over the course of "Trumbo - Red, White & Blacklisted," the two-hander about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo running at Buffalo Theatre Ensemble...
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Rolling Meadows High School stages ‘Grease’May 08, 2013 2:04 pm - Rolling Meadows High School brings the high-spirited, rock ’n’ roll fun of the ’50s to the Gilbert Theater when its spring musical, “Grease,” hits the stage for three mo...
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Better than OK: Lyric's 'Oklahoma!' big and beautifulMay 07, 2013 5:30 am - You win some and you lose some when you produce a Broadway musical like Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 landmark "Oklahoma!" in Chicago's 3,600-seat Civic Opera House. Fo...