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• The Business Ledger, a weekly Chicago suburban business newspaper, presented Arts in Bartlett with its Notable Nonprofit award March 25, as part of the newspaper's annual Awards for Business Excellence. The ceremony was held at the Danada House in...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 08:27 AM
When Broadway powerhouse Ben Vereen hits the stage Saturday at North Central College's Pfeiffer Hall to remember his friend, Sammy Davis Jr., he plans to build a personal connection between himself and his Naperville audience.
"It's just me and the...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 01:35 AM
When North Central College junior Abby Stark got her first chance to direct a full-length play, she knew she wanted to present audiences with her vision of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist drama "No Exit."
Stark's proposal was one of th...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 11:31 PM
One resident of a sanitarium known as The Cloisters is under the misguided impression that he's a violinist. Another, mourning the loss of a child, obsessively clings to a doll. A third tries to compensate for her less-than-glamorous countenance by ...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 10:30 PM
Lauren Omelson and Alexander Mersman are co-directors of North Central College's student production of "Company." Here's what they had to say about the play:
We decided on "Company" after months of deliberating among a plethora of other shows. In th...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 09:18 PM
Fifty years ago, the late Thelma Roe Milnes co-founded the Downers Grove Choral Society.
These days, the all-volunteer, 60-member group honors her memory with a continued commitment to music and performance.
The society celebrates its half-century m...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 08:19 PM
Candace Taylor knew Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" is something of a theatrical chestnut about family life and community.
So when the guest director began to put together North Central College's version, she gave the 1938 classic just enough tweaks to...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 06:39 PM
Guest director Candace Taylor talks about her experiences putting together "Our Town" at Naperville's North Central College:
Week 1
As I drive to Naperville from Chicago, I am nervous and excited - appropriate emotions, I suppose, for the start of ...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 06:46 PM
Some people have their hands full with one job. Greg Caldwell, who appears in Raven Theatre's production of "Misamerica," juggles two.
During the day, he teaches physical education at Booth Tarkington Elementary School in Wheeling. In the evening, h...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 05:34 PM
The ninth annual Self-Employment in the Arts Conference will make Lisle a hub for creative types next month.
Visual, performing, literary and media artists will gather at the Hilton Lisle/Naperville Hotel on Feb. 27 and 28 for artist-led meetings g...
Updated: Nov 06, 2021 at 04:11 PM