The Summer Place, Naperville's community theater since 1966, will perform “Gypsy,” in collaboration with Traveling Trunk Entertainment. Naperville Central High School teacher and newspaper adviser of the award-winning Central Times, Keith Carlson ...

Being a woman is never easy. Especially if you're a man. And even more especially if you're a man who must convincingly play the part of all of Shakespeare's women in one short production. It's the chaos and the improv that make “The Complete Work...

Anyone who has ever wished to take a magic carpet ride has six chances to do so this weekend at Naperville North High School. Magical Starlight Theatre, an audition-based, family-oriented theater company established in 1994, will take audiences to ...

Naperville Central's halls finally will come alive Monday with the sound of music — at least in the newly opened fine arts wing. Faculty members are quick to tell you the 61-year-old school never was ideally set up for music instruction, and the pas...

Kati Riess is leaving her fingerprints all over this weekend's production of “Quake” at North Central College in Naperville. Riess not only is playing the lead role of Lucy in the comedy, but also is helping out behind the scenes by creating costume...

If Brian Posen had had enough money to produce a musical like he wanted in 2002, the Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival might never have happened. Mounting costs eventually caused Posen to scrap the musical, but he still wanted to honor his commitment ...

Double-bill ballet The Russian National Ballet Theatre stages a classical dance double-bill of “Romeo and Juliet” and “Chopiana” Sunday at the College of DuPage's McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. $48; $46 seniors; $38 student...

Glance over your shoulder at the complicated year that was 2010 in DuPage County and it's difficult to find one moment, one event that sums the whole thing up. Where is the common bond, the string that ties it all together? There were unspeakable tr...