Performing Arts
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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...
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Helen Mirren gives noisy drummers a royal rebukeMay 06, 2013 6:48 am - LONDON — Silence for the queen, please. A troupe of street drummers got a shock when Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, emerged from a London theater to berate...
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Clockwise Theatre announces new season of works by and about MidwesternersMay 03, 2013 1:25 pm - Clockwise Theatre, a company in Waukegan devoted to presenting works by and about Midwesterners, recently announced its three-play 2013-14 season. On the bill is the Mi...
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'Oklahoma!' launches Lyric's musical theater initiativeMay 03, 2013 11:00 am - The Lyric Opera of Chicago will see if the "wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet" when it opens its new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's landmark 1943 musical "Oklah...
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Young stars shine in Writers' 'Yellow Moon'May 03, 2013 5:00 am - Late in "Yellow Moon," a desperate teenage boy - played with feverish authenticity by Josh Salt - contemplates a terrible act. Unfolding as the Writers' Theatre produc...