Performing Arts
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Booking the right actress key to Drury Lane's 'Funny Girl'Dec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Say the words "Funny Girl" and most music theater fans will think immediately of Barbra Streisand. The association is natural. After all, the 1966 musical, currently bei...
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Best bets: Hockey in Hoffman Estates, lights at the zooDec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Stick to it Last year Notre Dame won its premiere Notre Dame Shillelagh Hockey Tournament. See if they can retain their title in the tournament against North Dakota, Col...
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Light Opera Works to present 'Pirates of Penzance'Dec 23, 2009 10:00 pm - An apprentice pirate falls in love with a major-general's daughter in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance," the latest production from Light Oper...
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'Lady' only fair: Marriott production just doesn't dazzleDec 23, 2009 10:00 pm - It says something that some of the brightest, most engrossing scenes in Marriott Theatre's "My Fair Lady" are the debates on class and gender between Heidi Kettenring's ...
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Local auditionsDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - • Auditions for the tuition-based Improv Playhouse North Shore Teen and Junior Improv Ensembles are at The Art Center, 1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park. Students in 5th...
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Naperville teen having a blast in Scientology spoofDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Sara Geist, a freshman at Naperville Central and star of Next Theatre's holiday comedy, "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant," began acting professi...
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Megan Mullally returns to B'way in 'Lips Together'Dec 21, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Megan Mullally will return to Broadway in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of "Lips Together, Teeth Apart," Terrence McNally's comedy about two marrie...
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Best bets: Viennese NYE, Hard Rock Christmas, last NutcrackerDec 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Viennese NYE Conductor Kirk Muspratt and the New Philharmonic usher in the New Year with traditional American and Austrian waltzes, polkas and more music in the concert ...
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Oak Brook's First Folio Theatre ends year with $10,000 grantDec 19, 2009 10:00 pm - The year concludes on a high note for Oak Brook's First Folio Theatre, which recently received a $10,000 grant from the DuPage Community Foundation to expand its educati...
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Local auditionsDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - • The Annual Prairie Crossing Cookie Walk and Craft Market seeks vendors and volunteers for its "A Safe Place" benefit event from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, at Byro...