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The setting: the library.
It's stuffy and quiet as North Central College students frantically scan text books, trying to import as much knowledge into their brains as possible before finals next week.
Outside, they hear laughter and turn their gaz...
Updated: Nov 09, 2021 at 11:54 PM
Elgin 'Boys'
For the past two years, Michael Ingersoll has made special suburban concert appearances with and without his co-stars from the Chicago company of "Jersey Boys." Now that the long-running jukebox musical is closing in January, see Ingers...
Updated: Nov 09, 2021 at 10:07 PM
Dara Cameron plays the perky, slightly daffy sidekick Miss Dorothy Brown in Drury Lane Oak Brook's current production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie." In life she seems just as perky, though much less daffy. In fact, Cameron, who uses words like "anti...
Updated: Nov 09, 2021 at 09:28 PM
When actress Teri Garr felt a weakness on her right side in the 1980s, she had trouble finding a doctor who knew what was wrong with her. One doctor even wanted to perform surgery on her back, which Garr knew was not the issue.
Instead, on the advic...
Updated: Nov 09, 2021 at 05:54 PM
Double shot
Zanies in St. Charles delivers a double shot of comedy this weekend courtesy of co-headliners Michael Palascak, an Indiana native who studied sketch comedy at Second City, IO Chicago and Annoyance Theatre, and Northwestern University al...
Updated: Nov 09, 2021 at 01:16 PM
Gender-blind R&J
Janus Theatre puts a different spin on "Romeo and Juliet" by staging Shakespeare's tragedy about the young star-crossed lovers with an all-female cast. Elgin native Audrey Flegel plays Juliet opposite Jen Short's Romeo. Janus artist...
Updated: Oct 30, 2021 at 05:25 PM
Reel Life review: 'Motherhood'
Already this year, I've seen two movies about whiny, inferiority-complexed women who seek personal validation by writing blogs about their put-upon lives.
First came "Julie & Julia" featuring Amy Adams as a blogger out...
Updated: Nov 09, 2021 at 12:25 PM
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Be prepared to sing along!
Guests of all ages are invited to sing along with the classic tunes of the 1965 film "The Sound of Music" at the "Sound of Music Sing-Along." Don't worry if you've forgotten a line or two - lyrics from the fi...
Updated: Nov 09, 2021 at 12:06 PM
"Moonlight and Magnolias"
A behind-the-scenes comedy about the filming of "Gone With the Wind," in which producer David O. Selznick desperately tries to recruit a new writer and director, marks the opening of Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's 2009-2010 sea...
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 11:41 PM
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'That's Amore'
Baritone vocalist Jack Miuccio presents "That's Amore," a musical tribute to some Italian-American crooners, including singers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jerry Vale. Tickets are only available at the door.
1:30 p.m....
Updated: Nov 08, 2021 at 10:57 PM