Performing Arts
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What's new at the theaterDec 24, 2008 10:00 pm - • Bailiwick Repertory bids adieu to 2008 and to its longtime Belmont Avenue home with "Farewell 1229," featuring excerpts from musicals the company has produced there ov...
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Piven-less 'Speed-the-Plow' struggles
Dec 22, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Business tumbled last week for the Broadway revival of "Speed-the-Plow," now without the services of Jeremy Piven who abruptly quit the show after saying he ...
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Go guideDec 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Freebie! Holiday tour See a farmhouse decked in greens, and savor the aroma of holiday treats during the guided "1890s Christmas House Tour." Guests will strol...
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Holiday-themed improv in NapervilleDec 18, 2008 10:00 pm - Naperville's Comedy Shrine augments its "Who's Line?" improv shows on Fridays and Saturdays with a holiday themed improv show Thursdays through January. Tickets range fr...
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Living the actor's life -- plus babyDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - Jon Cunningham is living the American dream. He is married to his high school sweetheart, the girl he met and fell in love with at James B. Conant High School in Hoffman...
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2008's suburban theater highlightsDec 17, 2008 10:00 pm - 2008 turned out to be a banner year for Drury Lane Theatre Oak Brook, the west suburban mainstay that until recently had ceded its place among top Chicago-area musical t...
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Santa Claus is comin' ... to Long GroveDec 16, 2008 10:00 pm - Cheap events? Contact Laura Stewart at lstewart@dailyherald.com Free Mr. Claus goes to Long Grove Santa Claus will leave the elves in charge of his workshop as ...
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George Winston tugs a few (heart) strings at MetropolisDec 16, 2008 10:00 pm - George Winston, the multiplatinum recording artist, held a low-key workshop for a small group of senior citizens on Tuesday, in between shows at the Metropolis Performin...
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500 Clown comes to the 'burbsDec 11, 2008 10:00 pm - The innovative physical theater ensemble 500 Clown brings to Naperville its wonderfully subversive, anti-Rockwellian "500 Clown Christmas," a wholly entertaining show th...
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'Actor first' puts fresh spin on seasonal theaterDec 10, 2008 10:00 pm - Lots of theater people have day jobs, and most of these jobs have nothing to do with theater. But a lucky few are like Mike Speller, director of "Xtreme Holiday Makeover...