Performing Arts
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Mundelein High to stage ‘Radium Girls’Jan 22, 2013 12:02 pm - Inspired by historic figures and events from 1917 to the 1920s, Mundelein High School Theatre is presenting “Radium Girls” by D.W. Gregory. The play will run in the MHS ...
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500 nuns take trip to 'Sunset Boulevard'Jan 21, 2013 3:30 pm - You couldn't ask for a better audience than a room full of nuns. They're happy, they're accepting, and for nearly six decades they've been coming back to Drury Lane The...
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Singer Michelle Williams shares her struggle with depressionJan 19, 2013 5:00 am - NEW YORK — With a new single about to drop, a solo album in the works and a starring role in a national tour of a Broadway musical, you'd be hard-pressed to tell that Mi...
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Buffalo Grove High presents ‘A Night of One Acts’Jan 18, 2013 6:49 pm - Buffalo Grove High School presents “A Night of One Acts” in the school theater Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 24-26. Thursday’s performance is at 7 p.m.; the other nigh...
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Local theater: 'Underpants' satire at BTEJan 18, 2013 4:00 am - Social satire at BTE Next up at Buffalo Theatre Ensemble is Carl Sternheim's early 20th century farce “The Underpants,” adapted by actor/comedian Steve Martin. The ...
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What's new in theaterJan 18, 2013 4:00 am - Ÿ Dream Theatre Company pays tribute to Arch Oboler, the writer responsible for the horror radio series “Lights Out,” with the world premiere of “Lights Out, Everybody —...
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Steel Beam's 'Deathtrap' needs sharpeningJan 18, 2013 4:00 am - “Deathtrap,” Ira Levin's shrewdly crafted play-within-a-play, has the fundamentals — droll dialogue, comic relief and well-placed thrills — that make for entertaining th...
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Drury Lane ready for closeup with 'Sunset Boulevard'Jan 17, 2013 5:00 am - If local audiences' appetites for Andrew Lloyd Webber aren't satisfied with the Marriott Theatre's “Now & Forever,” they can also feast on the composer's full-length mus...
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Marriott debuts dance-filled Andrew Lloyd Webber revueJan 15, 2013 3:00 pm - Editor's note: Dancer Lauren Blane was misidentified in a photo caption accompanying the story. “Now and Forever” used to be the advertising slogan for Andrew Lloyd Webb...
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Metropolis play festival features new worksJan 15, 2013 12:34 pm - The New Play Festival brings five works to the stage. Professional actors will perform live readings of the plays at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington H...