Performing Arts
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Writers’ Theatre announces 2013-14 seasonMar 14, 2013 5:30 am - Writers’ Theatre announced its 2013-14 season comprised of mostly premieres, including the Glencoe theater’s first musical since “A Minister’s Wife” and its first pr...
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Streamwood High School presents ‘Les Miserables’Mar 13, 2013 2:01 pm - Streamwood High School for its spring musical this weekend and next will be performing the challenging production of “Les Misérables.” Producer Barb Thomas says student...
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Premieres make up most of Writers' Theatre's upcoming seasonMar 13, 2013 2:00 pm - Writers' Theatre announced its 2013-14 season comprised of mostly premieres, including the Glencoe theater's first musical since “A Minister's Wife” and its first pr...
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Triumphant 'Fiddler' closes out Paramount seasonMar 09, 2013 10:00 pm - Settling into my seat for Friday's opening of “Fiddler on the Roof” at Aurora's Paramount Theatre, the storm clouds immediately drew my attention. Suspended over Anatevk...
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The many faces of 'Jekyll & Hyde'Mar 08, 2013 5:00 am - Robert Louis Stevenson popularized the notion of a split personality through his 1886 fictional novella “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Hence the respectable ...
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Theater events: Two actors play a dozen characters in 'Stones'Mar 08, 2013 5:00 am - Northlight's ‘Stones' A pair of down-on-their-luck locals get roles as extras in a big-budget movie being filmed in their small Irish town in Marie Jones' two-hander “St...
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'Jekyll & Hyde' helps bring back extensive pre-Broadway toursMar 08, 2013 5:00 am - In the next few weeks, Chicago's downtown theater district will be home to a bonanza of Broadway musicals. Constantine Maroulis and Grammy Award-nominated R&B diva Deb...
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Stage beckons young Glen Ellyn actressMar 08, 2013 5:00 am - Theater stereotypes cast child actors as whiny little divas, pushed into the spotlight by crazed Mama Rose-like stage mothers. Glen Ellyn's plucky Jaclyn Dougherty - 1...
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Akoo Theatre now just plain old Rosemont Theatre againMar 07, 2013 5:33 pm - After just a year of being renamed the Akoo Theatre, the Rosemont Theatre has reverted back to its original name. Patrick Nagel, general manager of the theater and the A...
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Harper theater director talks about spring playMar 07, 2013 12:16 pm - One hundred years after the tragedy on which it’s based, Harper College will stage its production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Parade.” The true story of an innoc...