Barbara Vitello
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Theater spotlight: 'Madness of Edgar Allan Poe' haunts First Folio once againSep 24, 2018 11:00 pm - Poe's 'Madness' First Folio Theatre remounts "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story," an audience favorite adapted by executive director David Rice from Poe's poe...
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Woman charged with attempted murder in gang-related shootingSep 24, 2018 1:00 am - A 28-year-old Palatine woman was charged with attempted murder and ordered held on $1.25 million bail Monday in what authorities say was a gang-related shooting outside ...
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Mount Prospect man accused of trying to record child sex abuseSep 21, 2018 1:00 am - A Mount Prospect man was ordered held on $1.5 million bail Friday after, authorities say, a mother caught him using his cellphone to videotape her sleeping child while a...
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Theater spotlight: Firebrand Theatre opens its season with 'Caroline, or Change'Sep 20, 2018 11:45 am - 'Caroline, or change' Firebrand Theatre, a company committed to expanding opportunities for women on and offstage, opens its season with a revival of the Jeanine Tesori-...
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Theater events: Otherworld previews superhero comedy 'All I Want is One More Meanwhile'Sep 20, 2018 8:25 am - • Eclectic Full Contact Theatre opens its seventh season with J.M. Barrie's play "Dear Brutus," about the guests at a country house - including an artist, a philanderer,...
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Palatine cabdriver sentenced for sexually abusing female passengerSep 18, 2018 1:00 am - A Palatine cabdriver who sexually abused a female passenger he picked up outside a Palatine nightspot in 2016 was sentenced to six years in prison. Muhammad Mahmood, 41,...
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Letting the art happen: Elgin Fringe festival celebrates 5 yearsSep 15, 2018 1:00 am - Whatever happens, happens. That was the motto Elgin Fringe Festival co-founders Sean Hargadon and Erin Rehberg embraced when they established the performance and visual ...
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Police: Man with rifle killed by police in Vernon Hills domestic disputeSep 15, 2018 1:00 am - A Vernon Hills police officer responding to a domestic dispute call early Saturday shot and killed a man with a rifle, police authorities said. Officers were dispatched ...
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Theater events: Pat McGann headlines comedy show at the MetropolisSep 14, 2018 6:00 am - Monologist Roberta Miles brings her adults-only solo shows “I Want a Banana and Other Desperate Love Stories” and “Cracked: Surviving My Life” to the Prop Thtr, 3502 N....
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Theater review: Marriott Theatre's super 'Sweet Charity' has perfect rhythmSep 14, 2018 3:00 am - “Sweet Charity” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “The rhythm of life is a powerful beat, puts a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet.” Behold the words of Daddy Johann Sebastian B...