Barbara Vitello
-
Theater events: House Theatre revives Jeff Award-winning 'United Flight 232'Aug 28, 2017 11:00 pm - 'United Flight 232' The House Theatre of Chicago remounts its Joseph Jefferson Award-winning production of "United Flight 232" from 2016. Adapted and directed by Vanessa...
-
Unbeatable TimeLine cast makes 'The Audience' a winnerAug 25, 2017 11:30 am - In poker, a royal flush beats all. For the theatrical equivalent, look to the cast of TimeLine Theatre's impeccably executed production of “The Audience,” Peter Morgan'...
-
Attorney general's lawsuit: Retail electric supplier duped customersAug 25, 2017 1:00 am - Energy customers who paid higher rates after signing up with an alternative retail electric supplier that promised them lower bills could get relief if a lawsuit filed b...
-
Co-defendant held in Mount Prospect storage facility burglaryAug 24, 2017 1:00 am - A man who prosecutors say took items, including firearms, from a Mount Prospect storage facility was ordered held on $100,000 bail Thursday. Brett Masterson, 42, is cha...
-
Theater events: Kokandy stages Chicago-area premiere of 'Bonnie & Clyde'Aug 23, 2017 1:10 pm - 'Bonnie & Clyde' A couple of small-town bank robbers become folk heroes during the Great Depression in the 2009 musical "Bonnie & Clyde" by composer Frank Wildhorn and l...
-
Drury Lane, Paramount and Writers theaters lead 2017 equity Jeff nomsAug 23, 2017 10:00 am - Fueled in part by stellar revivals of “Smokey Joe's Cafe” and “Chicago the Musical,” Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace received 19 equity Joseph Jefferson Award nom...
-
Woman charged with burglary of Mount Prospect storage facilityAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - A 31-year-old woman has been accused of stealing items including firearms from a Mount Prospect storage facility. Heather L. Sechrist was ordered held on $75,000 bail W...
-
New block of 'Hamilton' tickets go on sale Tuesday, Aug. 29Aug 22, 2017 11:00 pm - Haven't seen “Hamilton” yet? You've got time. At least 16 weeks, now that producers are planning to release a new block of tickets that will keep Lin-Manuel Miranda's bl...
-
Terrific young performers make 'Trevor' stage transfer singAug 19, 2017 1:00 am - "The program is set and there's just no place in it for you." That statement, directed at a precocious teen desperate to perform in his middle school's talent show, come...
-
Attorney: Suspect in fatal Schaumburg parking lot shooting was defending himselfAug 18, 2017 1:00 am - A man shot Monday in a Walgreens parking lot in Schaumburg accused his attacker before he died, prosecutors said during a bond hearing Friday for the Glendale Heights ma...