Performing Arts
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Cultural clashes a comic gold mine in 'Chinglish'Jun 30, 2011 12:00 am - Watching the world premiere of David Henry Hwang's hilarious comedy “Chinglish” at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, I kept thinking to myself, “Everything about this show is g...
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'Beauty and the Beast' back in ChicagoJun 27, 2011 12:00 am - The NETworks national tour of “Disney's Beauty and the Beast” is headed back to the Windy City. The non-Equity production previously played a two-week run at the Cadilla...
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Big Noise auditions for fall musical, ‘How To Succeed’Jun 27, 2011 12:00 am - Big Noise Theatre will have auditions for its fall musical, “How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying,” from 6:30-10 p.m. Sunday and Monday, July 10-11, at the W...
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Lincolnshire theater launches reimagined ‘Shout!’Jun 26, 2011 12:00 am - “SHOUT! The Mod Musical” didn’t exactly have a felicitous reception the last time it played Chicago in 2008. This 2006 off-Broadway revue celebrating the girl-power son...
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Blues Brothers tribute heads to sweet home ChicagoJun 23, 2011 11:00 am - An iconic Chicago theater next month welcomes an iconic Chicago show when “The All New Original Tribute to the Blues Brothers” makes its U.S. debut at the Auditorium The...
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Batavia theater group presents 'Oklahoma!'Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am - Rising Star Theatreworks will present the iconic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!” at the historic Arcada Theatre in St. Charles today through Sunday, June 24-...
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Fox Valley Rep takes light-hearted journey 'Around the World'Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am - At a time when spectacle dominates stage and screen, Fox Valley Repertory's cleverly staged production of “Around the World in 80 Days” reminds audiences that the writte...
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Schaumburg man makes his Silk Road debut in David Henry Hwang’s ‘Yellow Face’Jun 22, 2011 1:00 am - Most actors want to “get it right.” That is to say, they want to uncover the truth about the characters they play and convey that to the audience. When that truth is th...
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Best bets: The Bard at the Globe (but close to home)Jun 21, 2011 11:00 pm - Big screen Bard Never had a chance to visit the celebrated recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London? Then see a production from the replica Elizabethan t...
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Stellar acting sells Drury Lane's 'Broadway Bound'Jun 19, 2011 11:00 pm - Audiences come to Drury Lane expecting musical spectacles. Not this time. The Oakbrook Terrace theater last set aside the orchestra in 2007 for Neil Simon's “The Odd Cou...