Performing Arts
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Outdoor Shakespeare show changes Geneva venueJul 19, 2012 8:00 am - Shakespeare is taking it to the streets. Geneva's popular Shakespeare in the Park event has a new venue this year due to this summer's construction closing of Island Pa...
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Past, present collide in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's 'Drawer Boy'Jul 19, 2012 6:00 am - The “Drawer” in the title of Canadian playwright Michael Healey's “The Drawer Boy” is meant to represent someone who does illustrations or draws; it has nothing to do wi...
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Paramount adds Newton-John, Poi Dog to lineupJul 18, 2012 11:00 pm - Australian pop star Olivia Newton-John and the Hawaiian fusion band Poi Dog Pondering are just two of the half-dozen acts recently added to the Paramount Theatre's 2012-...
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Catch sneak preview of ‘Guys and Dolls’ Thursday at Cappanari’sJul 18, 2012 2:43 pm - The King’s Players cast of “Guys and Dolls” will be outside Cappanari Ice Cream in Mount Prospect on Thursday, July 19, singing numbers from their show that opens July 2...
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Troupe to stage ‘You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown’Jul 17, 2012 11:15 am - The Peanuts gang of friends popularized by Charles M. Schultz’s comic series comes to life in song during Elgin Community College Musical Theatre’s summer production of ...
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Lisle comic to vie with 150 others in Chicago laugh-offJul 17, 2012 9:55 am - Call him a laugh-lete. Lisle’s Zach Thompson has been battling it out on ComedySportz improv stages for more than a decade, and now he and his three Chicago teammates ar...
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Best bets: Cirque du Soleil does 'Michael Jackson'Jul 17, 2012 6:00 am - Pop King spectacular What happens when Cirque du Soleil teams up with the estate of Michael Jackson? The result is the touring spectacular dedicated to the late Kin...
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Brilliantly executed '39 Steps' worth a climbJul 14, 2012 11:00 pm - The farcical whodunit “The 39 Steps” accomplishes something not many theatrical productions would even attempt. It adapts for the stage the groundbreaking cinematic devi...
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‘Wizard of Oz’ coming to St. Anne’s Community TheaterJul 14, 2012 10:17 am - St. Anne’s Community Theater in Barrington will perform “The Wizard of Oz,” the organization’s 15th production, over the next two weekends. Calling “The Wizard of Oz” a ...
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College of Lake County presents ‘Sweeney Todd’Jul 13, 2012 3:56 pm - Stephen Sondheim’s chilling musical, “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” will be staged July 20-29 by the College of Lake County departments of theater, mu...