Performing Arts
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Dennehy returns to Goodman for 'Hughie'Jan 12, 2010 10:00 pm - Goodman Theatre artistic associate Brian Dennehy returns to Chicago for the Broadway-bound, double bill of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie," about a down-on-his-luck gambler se...
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Best bets: Motorcycles, mixes and The MetJan 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Motorcycle mania Get revved up this weekend when the Bad Boys of Racing bring the Arenacross Championships to the Sears Centre Arena, 5333 Prairie Stone Parkway, ...
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Connecting with the characters key to Metropolis farce 'Out of Order'Jan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Farces seem to come in only two flavors - very funny and very awful. The difference has everything to do with how the play is done. "The characters in a farce can be ve...
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New Steel Beam Theatre show handles loss with laughs, hopeJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - According to Donna Steele, director of the Steel Beam Theatre's newest production, "Rabbit Hole," this show is sure to make you feel plenty of "good" grief. The play, a...
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Local auditionsJan 05, 2010 10:00 pm - • A "Singing with the Broadway Stars" virtual contest runs from Friday, Jan. 8, through Monday, Feb. 8. The contest is for people who want to win a chance to perform alo...
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Top performing talents from around Illinois give life to 'Urinetown'Jan 05, 2010 10:00 pm - The nation's largest high school theater festival opens Friday on the campus of Illinois State University, and with it some of the brightest stars from the Northwest sub...
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Next up at the Metropolis: 'Out of Order', 'Put the Nuns in Charge!'Jan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - The discovery of a dead body in a hotel room thwarts a politician's attempts to keep secret his affair with a young woman in the British sex farce "Out of Order," Metrop...
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Cheap stuff: Trio Élan, 'Grease' sing-along, Lyric Opera lectureJan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Free Trio #201;lan Trio #201;lan presents a program of baroque and classical music. Info: 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, at the Grayslake Area Public ...
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Best bets: Lady Gaga, Bakugan tourney, 'Der Rosenkavalier'Jan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Go, go, go, Gaga Followers of Lady Gaga know by now that The Monster Ball Tour has jumped from the Chicago Theatre to a rebooking at the Rosemont Theatre, 5400 N. River ...
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Get plenty of comedy this weekend -- some of it on the cheapDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - Laugh Out Loud offers double dose of comedy Schaumburg's Laugh Out Loud Theater will be dark on New Year's Day, but it makes up for it with two improv shows on Sa...