Performing Arts
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'Jersey Boy' Ingersoll may have a new hitFeb 09, 2010 10:00 pm - A Broadway film crew set up shop last week at the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights. They were on hand to capture what has become a surefire sellout...
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Disney's 'The Lion King' returning to ChicagoFeb 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Disney's "The Lion King" is set to roar again in Chicago. The national tour of the six-time Tony Award-winning 1997 Broadway musical returns to the Cadillac Palace Theat...
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African-American veterans honored at Greenbelt Cultural CenterFeb 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Freebie Remembering the vets The Greenbelt Cultural Center salutes African-American veterans with a special "Profiles in Excellence" program devoted to the veterans. Mil...
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Letts' portrait of family dysfunction 'Osage' as powerful as everFeb 04, 2010 10:00 pm - When Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2007, I called it a love letter to the women of Steppenwolf. The actor/playwright tailored h...
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A feast of Rodgers and Hammerstein at Palatine concertFeb 03, 2010 10:00 pm - With songs from every Broadway musical written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ("Oklahoma", "The Sound of Music", "Carousel", "South Pacific" and "The King and ...
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Buffalo Grove High to perform Steve Martin playFeb 03, 2010 10:00 pm - Buffalo Grove High School will present a play written by comedic genius Steve Martin, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 4-6, in the school th...
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Local auditionsFeb 03, 2010 10:00 pm - • Big Noise Theatre has auditions for the 2005 Elvis Presley jukebox musical "All Shook Up" at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 8 and 9, at the Winnetka Community House, ...
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Delightful 'Jeeves' makes welcome return to First FolioFeb 02, 2010 10:00 pm - If actors could copyright a role and claim it as their own, Jim McCance deserves first dibs on Jeeves, the unflappable gentleman's gentleman created by British humorist ...
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Ferrante treats audiences to 'An Evening with Groucho'Feb 02, 2010 10:00 pm - Actor/writer Frank Ferrante treats audiences to "An Evening with Groucho," including the famous comedian's best-loved one-liners and anecdotes along with tunes like "Lyd...
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'Love Song' struck a chord with Glen Ellyn directorFeb 02, 2010 10:00 pm - Bryan Burke defies the Chicago theater stereotype. He doesn't live in the city (he lives in Glen Ellyn). He is not right out of college (he graduated in 1986). And he is...