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Spotlight: Spend 'Halloween in the Sorcerer's Lair' with magician David Parr
Oct 23, 2020 6:00 AM - "Splatter Theater" returns to The Annoyance, AstonRep premieres radio adaptations of "Twisted Tales of Poe" and Northlight Theatre livestreams Broadway legend Patti LuPone, this week in Chicago-area theater. -
Mundelein High students perform Shakespeare on football field
Oct 22, 2020 9:44 AM - The play's name may be "Much Ado About Nothing," but the performances over the weekend by Mundelein High School theater students were worth every bit of the excitement they generated. -
Hubbard Street Dance's virtual 'Tale of Two' premiere explores cultural dichotomies
Oct 22, 2020 7:30 AM - Hubbard Street Dance Company opens its all-virtual 43rd season with the premiere of Rena Butler's "A Tale of Two," an examination of Chicago's cultural and economic dichotomies. -
Barrington's White House to present musical 'Cinderella'
Oct 21, 2020 10:44 AM - Join Barrington's White House and the Family Fun Players for a virtual musical theater performance of "Cinderella" at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. -
Goodman streams Tony-winning 'Death of a Salesman' as a fundraiser
Oct 16, 2020 12:19 PM - Goodman Theatre, in cooperation with Showtime, streams the Tony Award-winning 1999 Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," starring the late Brian Dennehy and directed by Goodman's Robert Falls. The run is a fundraiser for The Actors Fund COVID-19 relief efforts. -
Spotlight: Virtual productions feature a disaster film parody and a Pulitzer Prize-winning two-hander
Oct 16, 2020 6:00 AM - Hell in a Handbag sends up 1970s disaster films, Invictus Theatre revives the chilling two-hander "'night, Mother" online and Black Lives, Black Words puts a modern spin on a Greek tragedy, this week in Chicago-area theater. -
'Madmen & Prisoners': First Folio keeps the faith with virtual double bill of Poe tales
Oct 16, 2020 6:00 AM - First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook celebrates the season with a virtual double bill featuring a pair of Edgar Allan Poe classics: "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart." -
'Jagged Little Pill' leads Tony Awards nominations with 15
Oct 15, 2020 12:16 PM - The sobering musical "Jagged Little Pill," which plumbs Alanis Morissette's 1995 breakthrough album to tell a story of an American family spiraling out of control, earned a leading 15 Tony Award nominations Thursday. -
Steppenwolf veterans star in Kane Repertory virtual reading of new play
Oct 13, 2020 6:05 PM - Steppenwolf Theatre veterans appear in Kane Repertory Theatre's virtual reading of a play about a couple coping with terminal cancer and a potential suicide. -
College of DuPage College Theater to put on 'The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later' Oct. 15-25
Oct 12, 2020 3:23 PM - College of DuPage College Theater will present "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later" on Thursday, Oct. 15, to Sunday, Oct. 25. COD Theater Department's Connie Canaday Howard said that while the script is powerful on its own, in the midst of COVID-19 it has taken on a whole new importance. "Laramie is not a unique place, and current events underscore that the potential for injustice and violence is, unfortunately, a series of systemic and societal problems with no boundaries. Ultimately, it asks each of us to actively work to create a better world for all of us," Canaday Howard said.
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