Entertainment
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St. Charles’ Fox Haven Square aims to be entertainment destination for east side
Jan 29, 2026 3:12 pm - With the grand opening scheduled for this spring, the $22 million Fox Haven Square development in St. Charles is quickly transforming from long-imagined to fully realized.
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Studio drama: Broadway hit ‘Stereophonic’ is a groovy good timeJan 29, 2026 12:55 pm - It's rare for non-musical Broadway plays — even major Tony Award-winning ones — to go out on a national tour. So the arrival of the 2024 hit Broadway drama “Stereophonic” at the CIBC Theatre in Chicago is certainly something to celebrate.
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Rachel McAdams takes her cutthroat comedy genius way beyond Regina George
Jan 29, 2026 8:49 am - If you weren’t already a fan of Rachel McAdams, “Send Help” should convert you. The actress is superb in the new horror-comedy from director Sam Raimi, which follows a pair of colleagues who survive a plane crash and become stranded on a remote island somewhere off the coast of Thailand.
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Actor Rose Byrne named Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Jan 29, 2026 7:36 am - Rose Byrne, fresh off her Golden Globe Award win and Oscar nomination for the leading role in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You," was named as the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Wednesday.
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As if! ‘Clueless,’ ‘The Karate Kid,’ ‘Inception’ among 25 movies entering National Film Registry
Jan 29, 2026 7:24 am - As if they’d leave “Clueless” off the list as one of 25 classic movies chosen this year by the Library of Congress for its National Film Registry. And if “Clueless” wasn’t your jam — whatever! — Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending “Inception” is in the mix.
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In the Oscar-nominated ‘Arco,’ an apocalypse kids can get behind
Jan 29, 2026 5:15 am - Ugo Bienvenu’s “Arco” is a charming and dreamy sci-fi animated movie where environmental catastrophe and cartoony fun collide. Like “WALL-E,” there are heroic robots in “Arco,” an Oscar nominee for best animated feature. But it’s the film’s plucky young protagonists that give Bienvenu’s future-set film its heart.
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Masterful ‘Magellan’ forces a long, hard look at violence and conquest
Jan 29, 2026 5:15 am - Whatever seafaring saga your imagination may conjure upon hearing the name Magellan, it’s nothing like “Magellan.” It’s at once a sprawling historical epic; a quietly subversive indictment of global politics; and a visually breathtaking meditation on violence, grief and power.
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Jason Statham sticks close to the formula as a lethal former spy in ‘Shelter’
Jan 29, 2026 5:15 am - Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in “Shelter,” and that’s a pretty good analogy for Statham’s usual movie role these days: Tall, cold, alone, tough, quiet and only intermittently illuminating.
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The making of a smash: Unshakable belief helped propel record-breaking ‘Stereophonic’Jan 28, 2026 4:26 pm - “Stereophonic” director Daniel Aukin reminisces about the unshakable belief he and his fellow theater artists had in David Adjmi’s play-with-music over the nine years it took to bring it to the stage, where it broke the record for most Tony Award nominations for a play.
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Steakhouse to replace Catch 35 in downtown Naperville; Eddie Bauer space already leasedJan 28, 2026 3:48 pm - The culinary minds behind Empire Burgers + Brew plan to open The Belmont, a steakhouse slated to take over the downtown Naperville space formerly occupied by Catch 35. It’s among the latest dining and retail developments in the downtown.