Performing Arts
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Paramount announces four new musical productions for 2013-14Mar 07, 2013 10:00 am - The Paramount Theatre in Aurora's 2013-14 Broadway Series season includes four self-produced musicals, each set for an expanded four-week run. The lineup features the f...
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Steppenwolf's 'How Long' a powerful look at youth violenceMar 07, 2013 4:00 am - The documentary play “How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence” is unsettling from the outset. The Steppenwolf for Young Adults world premiere launches with a rea...
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What's new in theatersMar 07, 2013 4:00 am - Ÿ Comedian Rex Havens invites audiences to look at the funny side of relationships when he brings his show “Everything I Need to Know I Learned from My Wife” to the Metr...
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Steppenwolf planning a season of premieresMar 06, 2013 11:28 am - Steppenwolf Theatre Company on Wednesday announced its 2013-14 season consisting of premiere productions, including two world premieres and a U.S. premiere that also...
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Bawdy troupe at Vero Voce this weekendMar 05, 2013 1:33 pm - Submitted by Vero Voce School of Performing Arts Vero Voce Black Box Theatre will feature Troupe Strozzi as it presents two more performances of the popular “Commedia de...
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Nonprofit Geneva theater to closeMar 01, 2013 12:57 pm - The Geneva Underground Playhouse has closed because it could not raise enough money to continue, operators of the nonprofit theater announced. It was housed in the Stant...
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Steel Beam's 'Becky's New Car' is a fun rideMar 01, 2013 5:00 am - Should she or shouldn't she commit adultery? That's the key question the title character in “Becky's New Car” asks as she polls the women of the audience. The fact that...
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Local theater: 'Fiddler' at ParamountMar 01, 2013 5:00 am - Paramount's ‘Fiddler' Paramount Theatre concludes its second season of self-produced musicals with the Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick-Joseph Stein classic, “Fiddler on the R...
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March Music Madness: Fans score with local showsMar 01, 2013 5:00 am - Ah, March. Just as winter starts to wind down, talk turns to NCAA college basketball brackets. But sports fans don't have a monopoly on March Madness. In fact, it's a ...
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What's new in theatersMar 01, 2013 4:00 am - Ÿ Previews begin Friday, March 1, for the Neo-Futurists' “Analog,” inspired by ensemble member Kurt Chiang's “self-prescribed task” of transcribing William Golding's 195...