Performing Arts
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‘Singin’ in the Rain’ at Elgin High SchoolFeb 21, 2012 11:00 pm - “Singin’ in the Rain” is one of those musicals just about everybody has heard of. Who can forget the iconic scene from the 1952 movie with Gene Kelly tapping and dancing...
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Barrington Fine Arts presents ‘Hello, Dolly!’Feb 21, 2012 6:00 am - Barrington High School’s Fine Arts Department will present “Hello, Dolly!” Thursday-Sunday, March 1-4 in the Richard C. Johnson Auditorium at Barrington High School. Sho...
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Consider yourself ... invited to ‘Oliver!’ at Conant High SchoolFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Under the direction of Josh Nilsson, more than 125 students and faculty have worked for months on the classic musical “Oliver!”, which opens Friday, Feb. 24 at Conant Hi...
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“The Glass Menagerie” at Steel Beam TheatreFeb 17, 2012 11:00 pm - Family drama takes center stage in Steel Beam’s ‘The Glass Menagerie’
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Playwright Tony Kushner to speak at Chicago AIDS eventFeb 16, 2012 11:00 pm - Celebrated playwright Tony Kushner will share his thoughts on the AIDS epidemic as the guest of honor at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s annual spring dinner. Kushner w...
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'South Pacific' transports audiences to another time, placeFeb 16, 2012 10:00 pm - In many ways, "South Pacific," the iconic American musical, seems firmly rooted in a specific time and place. The story of romance colliding with racism, set on a tropic...
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Suburban church drama director converts to Chicago stageFeb 15, 2012 5:00 am - Rod Armentrout studied theater in college, but for much of the last two decades his stage work was limited to Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington. "They i...
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Audiences won’t nod off at ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’Feb 14, 2012 11:00 pm - ECC Musical Theatre production of comedy-musical show within a show aims to win over even those who don’t like musicals
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The music never stops in CYT Aurora’s ‘Joseph’Feb 14, 2012 11:00 pm - The 100-plus cast members of Christian Youth Theater Aurora’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” can only benefit from the experience their director brings t...
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Local theater: Steel Beam presents 'Glass Menagerie'Feb 14, 2012 12:00 pm - ‘Glass Menagerie' at Steel Beam Steel Beam Theatre stages Tennessee Williams' “The Glass Menagerie.” An elegiac ode to unrealized aspirations, the play premiered in 1944...