Performing Arts
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'Avenue Q' keeps character based on Gary ColemanMay 30, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- An award-winning play that features a character based on Gary Coleman is planning to keep that character, even after the actor's death. The creative team beh...
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Janus Theatre to showcase playettes at Elgin festivalMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Janus Theatre showcases 10 playlettes (running 10 minutes or less) by writer Theresa Rebeck during its first short play festival running this weekend at the Elgin Art Sh...
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'Dixie Swim Club' sinks in shallow watersMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - There's no denying the target demographic of the comedy "Dixie Swim Club," now in production at Steel Beam Theatre in St. Charles. It's for anyone who loves the genres o...
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Return to Elgin helped director find her passionMay 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Sarafina Vecchio, who directs one of the plays in Janus Theatre's Elgin Short Play Festival, studied theater in England and performed for a while in Chicago. But it wasn...
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'Billy Elliot' actress feeling at home in more ways than oneMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Susie McMonagle won't be going home anytime soon. Not, that is, the Evanston residence the actress shares with her two sons. She returns there every night, one of the p...
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Argentine spectacle 'Fuerza Bruta' a 'force' to contend withMay 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Who'd have thunk that the landmark 1889 Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University could be transformed into what is likely to be Chicago's hippest and trendiest nightcl...
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Comic classic: Raven revives timeless 'Odd Couple'May 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Not everything needs updating. Classic albums don't need to be augmented with newly "discovered" tracks and classic comedies don't need to be contemporized to remain ent...
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Local auditionsMay 25, 2010 11:00 pm - • The Marriott Theatre seeks young African-American girls (ages 10 and younger) who can sing and act for the role of Little Ti Moune in the 1990 Broadway musical "Once o...
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Two different 'Cirque' shows keep the dreams aliveMay 25, 2010 11:00 pm - "Cirque" is the French word for circus, and two family-friendly performing troupes both bearing that name start performances in Chicago within days of each other. "Cirq...
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Best bets: Parades galore, Great America 'officially' opens, play festMay 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Saluting those who served Remember those brave men and women who died while serving our country this weekend by attending a Memorial Day parade or ceremony in you...