Performing Arts
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Marriott's 'Hairspray' provides a happy high for audiencesOct 08, 2009 11:00 pm - When historians look back on this decade's influential musicals, "Hairspray" will definitely be near the top of the list. "Hairspray" was a smash hit when it first bowed...
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First Folio plays it straight with 'Castle of Otranto'Oct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - First Folio Theatre could have played it safe this Halloween season by staging a show around household-name monsters or by reviving its hit 2006 production of "The Madne...
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Webber's 'Phantom' sequel set at Coney Island
Oct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - LONDON -- The Phantom of the Opera is coming back -- but this time, he'll be haunting the amusement park at New York's Coney Island. Star composer Andrew Lloyd Webber an...
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Actress traces her love of theater to Viator rootsOct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Pert, energetic, singer/dancer/comic actress Dina DiCostanzo was born to be a Wonderette, one of the perkier members of the perky, funny, totally fictional group of sing...
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Christian musical brings Sermon on the Mount to Mount ProspectOct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - A Christian-themed musical - revised for its 30th anniversary with a new script and updated music - will make its only appearance in the Northwest suburbs on Friday, Oct...
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Hersey goes for the laughs in 'Tom, Dick and Harry'Oct 05, 2009 11:00 pm - John Hersey High School's theater program will present the comedy, "Tom, Dick and Harry" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 15-17, in the school theater, 1900 E. Thoma...
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The Great Pumpkin Fest at Berthold NurseryOct 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Freebie Great Pumpkin Fest Berthold Nursery and Garden Center hosts The Great Pumpkin Fest with rides, a petting zoo, a pumpkin patch, a corn maze, a craft fai...
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Wheeling HS stages lively British farceOct 02, 2009 11:00 pm - The comedy "Out of Order" will be on stage in the Wheeling High School theater, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 9, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Oc...
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'Sleepy Hollow' returns for Halloween runOct 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Spooky show Just in time for Halloween, Theatre-Hikes reprises its 2004 production of "Sleepy Hollow." Lara Filip directs this musical adaptation of Washington Irving's ...
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Play's sequel gives voice to Matt Shepard's killer