Performing Arts
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Bradbury Festival at GeneseeOct 15, 2012 5:21 pm - Tickets are on sale now to the award-winning Seventh Annual Ray Bradbury Storytelling Festival, “October Country,” Oct. 26 at the Genesee Theatre in downtown Waukegan. S...
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Fox Valley Rep unveils 2013 seasonOct 15, 2012 3:43 pm - Emphasizing musical revues and comedies, Fox Valley Repertory announced Monday its 2013 season in residence at the Pheasant Run Resort, 4051 E. Main St., St. Charles. T...
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‘Black Watch’ a riveting tribute to Scotland’s warriorsOct 14, 2012 5:53 pm - The National Theatre of Scotland’s “Black Watch” begins with a soldier defending his choice of profession, and it ends with a haunting, hypnotic depiction...
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Schaumburg library trip to see ‘War Horse’Oct 13, 2012 1:00 am - Imaginative drama, stirring music and magnificent artistry combine in the epic production of “War Horse,” the destination of a Schaumburg Township District Library trip ...
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ArtReach Theatre's 'Oklahoma' bursts on stage this weekendOct 12, 2012 8:00 pm - ArtReach Educational Theatre in partnership with Spotlite Theatrix Production Company and District 214 Community Education is staging the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic...
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'Hello. I have cancer.' Comedian finds humor in catharsisOct 12, 2012 7:00 pm - NEW YORK — A frightfully nervous Tig Notaro stood just offstage at the Los Angeles club Largo while Ed Helms introduced her. The audience of 300 and Notaro's fellow per...
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Playwright Tracy Letts revels in his Midwestern rootsOct 12, 2012 3:00 pm - NEW YORK — Tracy Letts is so polite that he warns you right away that he makes a terrible subject of a story. “Midwestern people don't make for good interviews,” says th...
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'Black n Blue' paints unsettling portrait of abuseOct 12, 2012 6:00 am - Dael Orlandersmith doesn't make things easy for audiences. Her solo play "Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men" is a gripping, unsettling work that examines in vivid, often wr...
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CST brings insightful direction, top-tier talent to Sondheim's 'Sunday'Oct 12, 2012 6:00 am - For several magical moments at the conclusion of the first act of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's superb "Sunday in the Park with George," everything 19th century French p...
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'Arcadia' will challenge actors, delight audiencesOct 11, 2012 11:00 pm - For the upcoming Dundee-Crown High School fall play, director and English teacher Heather Hoffman will challenge audiences and stretch the intellectual capabilities of t...