Performing Arts
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On the cheap: Jam with Julien from 'Madagascar'Feb 14, 2011 10:00 pm - Free Jammin' with Julien Youngsters and their families can say hello to the zany ring-tailed lemur character King Julien from the hit musical “Madagascar Live”...
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‘Working’ returns to its Chicago rootsFeb 13, 2011 11:00 pm - The newly revised version of the 1978 Broadway musical “Working” at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place is a Chicago homecoming for all intents and purposes. And...
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Headin' out: Wildlife exhibit in W. ChicagoFeb 11, 2011 10:00 pm - Freebie ‘Wildlife and Pet Portraits' See the “Wildlife and Pet Portraits” exhibit featuring detailed wildlife portraiture by artist Paul Nemejc. Noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, ...
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Metropolis actors get help from ClearbrookFeb 11, 2011 10:00 pm - When you're preparing a play about residents of a group home, who are the experts you turn to? Clearbrook clients, of course. The warmth, relationships, speech patterns ...
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Onstage: 'Flanagan's Wake' returnsFeb 10, 2011 10:00 pm - Cry 'til you laugh Copley Theatre revives “Flanagan's Wake,” the interactive comedy in which residents of a fictional Irish village send off a favorite son with a toast,...
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Grayslake actress evolves with showFeb 10, 2011 10:00 pm - Grayslake resident Robin Hughes has been performing on and off in various productions of Eve Ensler's “The Vagina Monologues” since 2005. But each time she appears in th...
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What's new in theater: openings and closingsFeb 10, 2011 10:00 pm - • Steppenwolf Theatre's annual Garage Rep begins previews on Friday, Feb. 11, at the Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted St., Chicago. Among the ensembles featu...
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Witty 'Blithe Spirit' warms up a cold winter nightFeb 10, 2011 10:00 pm - Count on First Folio Theatre to warm up a winter evening. For six of the last seven years, the Oak Brook theater has served up thoroughly entertaining comedies that hel...
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‘High Spirits’ comes to Palatine’s Cutting HallFeb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - The Palatine-based repertory company LZP Productions will perform “High Spirits,” the Broadway musical based on Noel Coward’s comedy “Blithe Spirit,” beginning Saturday ...
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St. Viator performs “Fiddler” in school’s largest student activityFeb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - St. Viator High School will present performances of “Fiddler on the Roof” this weekend at the Arlington Heights school. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday and S...