Performing Arts
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Youth theater group to stage ‘The Jungle Book’ in HuntleyOct 06, 2011 12:00 am - The term “raised by wolves” takes on new meaning with Christian Youth Theater — Kane County’s production of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.” Performances are set for...
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Carrie Fisher mixes humor, honesty in 'Wishful Drinking'Oct 05, 2011 11:00 pm - Carrie Fisher might shower you with more attention than you bargained for if you sit in the first few rows of “Wishful Drinking,” her hilarious 2009 one-woman Broadway s...
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John Hersey HS says, ‘let’s dance’Oct 05, 2011 12:00 am - John Hersey High School’s Orchesis program will host its first Huskie Dance Workshop from 3-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, for area youth ages 4-14. Perfectly suited for the ...
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Kirk Players to perform 'The Happiest Millionaire'Oct 05, 2011 12:00 am - Mixing humorous stories of his early theater days as an actor with Goodman Theatre, and firing off commands such as, “I should now be seeing the actor disappear and char...
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WHS ‘Fusion’ another one-of-a-kind showOct 05, 2011 12:00 am - Wheeling High School’s popular student-produced show, “Fusion 16: Bits and Ends, Odds and Pieces,” will be presented in the Robert E. Sang Theater, Thursday through Satu...
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Four stars for Lyric’s season opener, “Hoffmann”Oct 02, 2011 12:00 am - After an absence of nearly 30 years, Jacques Offenbach’s posthumous 1881 opera “The Tales of Hoffmann” (“Les contes d’ Hoffmann”) made a triumphant return Saturday to th...
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Local theater: New local ensembleSep 30, 2011 6:00 am - New theater debuts Alison Henderson, former co-artistic director of the shuttered New World Repertory Theater in Downers Grove, has formed a new ensemble. The Moving Im...
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble creates chilly, ghostly 'City'Sep 29, 2011 2:00 pm - Irish playwright Conor McPherson is known for infusing otherworldly twists into his modern-day dramas like “The Weir” and “The Seafarer.” The same is also true of his 20...
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'Snapshots' worth a second lookSep 29, 2011 11:00 am - Stephen Schwartz could have done things the easy way. To create “Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook,” Schwartz's musical/revue hybrid running at Skokie's Northlight Theatre...
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Goodman's 'Red' offers complex, comical, portraitSep 29, 2011 6:00 am - John Logan's one-act, two-person play “Red” seems conflicted about its main character, the Abstract Expressionist artist Mark Rothko, which is appropriate in that Rothko...