Performing Arts
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The Suburbs This Weekend: Antiques, beer curls, ghosts and baby boom musicApr 04, 2012 11:20 am - Antiques and ghosts, beer curls and music for baby boomers: Those are the suburban events selected for this weekend by Sean Stangland and Richard Battin. Sean recommends...
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Neil Patrick Harris to again host Tony AwardsApr 03, 2012 10:00 am - NEW YORK — Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his third turn hosting the Tony Awards. Producers of the show announced Tuesday that the star of the sitcom “How I Met Y...
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Suburbia's got talent: Fox Valley RepertoryApr 02, 2012 11:00 pm - Fox Valley Repertory continues its second season reliving the summer of 1960 set to Neil Sedaka's hits with the musical "Breaking Up is Hard to Do." Directed by Fox Va...
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'Peter Pan,' 'I Love Lucy' join Broadway in Chicago seasonApr 02, 2012 4:00 pm - Though many choices have already been announced, Broadway in Chicago has finalized its slate of shows for its 2012-13 season. Tony Award-nominee Cathy Rigby returns in ...
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Streamwood High School puts on powerful 'West Side Story'Apr 02, 2012 6:00 am - Streamwood High School will stage Leonard Bernstein's romantic, tragic tale, “West Side Story.” The musical featuring warring gangs the Sharks and the Jets will be stage...
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Eric McCormack taps into his evil side on BroadwayMar 31, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — It may not take long before you start hating Eric McCormack. The genial star of “Will & Grace” has turned himself into a power-hungry, egotistical senator onl...
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Lincolnshire native achieves success as director, choreographerMar 30, 2012 6:00 am - When Brenda Didier was 8 years old, her best friend enrolled in ballet class. Didier's mother thought Brenda should take ballet too. She disagreed. She hated putting...
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Talented, energetic Ngaujah drives engaging 'Fela!'Mar 30, 2012 6:00 am - Sahr Ngaujah is definitely a candidate to claim the title of "hardest-working-man in show business." Whether singing, dancing, beat-boxing or playing a mean saxophone, N...
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Steel Beam revives ‘Crimes’Mar 30, 2012 5:38 am - There was one thing Ann Keen had to have when she and her husband moved from Chicago to St. Charles in 2009. “I need to have theater in my life,” said the actress, dire...
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Local theaterMar 30, 2012 5:00 am - ‘Angels' returns Theater lovers can experience Tony Kushner's epic Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches” and a newly revis...