Performing Arts
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'Love, Loss' a light look at women and fashionSep 21, 2011 11:00 pm - “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” is the theatrical equivalent of a mini-cream puff: sugary sweet, and not especially filling. Comprised of airy vignettes detailing signific...
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Steppenwolf's 'Clybourne Park' an explosive meditation on raceSep 21, 2011 3:00 pm - Amy Morton is known for giving smoldering performances at Steppenwolf Theatre. She might come on sultry and smoking at first, but almost inevitably she ignites with a fi...
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Drury Lane Theatre adds 'Xanadu' to its 2012 lineupSep 21, 2011 6:00 am - Drury Lane Theatre announced Tuesday that “Xanadu,” the 2007 Broadway musical inspired by the much-maligned 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John as a Greek muse sent to...
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Lombard actress balances life, theaterSep 20, 2011 2:42 pm - Deanna Norman knows a good part when she sees it. When offered the chance to play Ethel in a production of Ernest Thompson’s domestic drama “On Golden Pond,” the Lombar...
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Sterling 'My Fair Lady' gives Paramount a rousing startSep 20, 2011 6:00 am - When cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle successfully passes herself off as a lady at a posh ball in the classic 1956 Broadway musical “My Fair Lady,” there's a celebrat...
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Second City pals are first-rate support for Mount Prospect cancer suffererSep 19, 2011 12:00 am - When Judy Fabjance graduated from Prospect High School in 1992, the people where she worked her part-time job came to her graduation party. “Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, N...
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Local theater: Atomic actionSep 19, 2011 12:00 am - Science and morality Fermilab physicist Michael Albrow directs Vex Theatre Company’s production of “Copenhagen,” Michael Frayn’s play inspired by the September 1941 mee...
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What’s new: Sept. 16-23Sep 19, 2011 12:00 am - Ÿ Northlight Theatre presents the Chicago area premiere of “Snapshots,” a revue of songs by Stephen Schwartz (“Pippin,” “Working,” “Wicked”) about a middle-aged couple’s...
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Wheaton Drama opens season with Monty Python-style comedySep 15, 2011 12:00 am - For those who declare a scratch “just a flesh wound,” or spend afternoons imitating the Knights Who Say Ni, Wheaton Drama has just the show for you. As its 2011-12 seaso...
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Steel Beam's 'Fantasticks' hits the right notesSep 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy wins girl. While musicals have long embraced that formula, few do so with as much candor as “The Fantasticks,” the seminal, off-Broad...