Barbara Vitello
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Metropolis announces 2026-2027 seasonMay 12, 2026 4:51 pm - The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre announced its 2026-2027 season will commence Sept. 16 with the cult musical “Ride the Cyclone.”
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Best Bets: Rosemont hosts Spring Fun Fest and Anime CentralMay 12, 2026 10:52 am - The Spring Fun Fest and Anime Central convention take over Rosemont, “Veep” alum Matt Walsh performs with Bluebird Improv at the Studebaker Theatre, and Chicago’s Intuit Art Museum showcases a former Aurora sculptor’s new exhibit.
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Spotlight: Satirical tuner ‘Spamalot’ gallops back to ChicagoMay 11, 2026 1:08 pm - “Spamalot” returns to Chicago, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre inaugurates new kids’ series, and Trap Door Theatre concludes its season with a stage adaptation of the 1983 film “Le Bal.”
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Prosecutors: Digital audio recording captured Schaumburg woman’s torture, slayingMay 08, 2026 4:18 pm - Describing Kevin D. Motykie as a “controlling and conniving predator,” a Cook County judge granted prosecutors' motion to detain the 56-year-old charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend in the Schaumburg home they shared.
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Judge denies release for teen charged with taking police officer’s gun from schoolMay 07, 2026 8:02 pm - A teen who authorities say took the firearm an Arlington Heights police officer left in a school restroom on Monday will remain in jail while his case is pending, a Cook County judge ruled Thursday.
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Citadel Theatre announces 2026-2027 seasonMay 07, 2026 1:26 pm - Lake Forest’s Citadel Theatre announces its 2026-2027 season dubbed “the season of choices.”
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Energetic cast, 1980s nostalgia power Metropolis’ ‘Wedding Singer’May 07, 2026 8:47 am - Middling musical “The Wedding Singer” gets a high-octane revival courtesy of director Amber Mak and the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.
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Spotlight: Janus adapts Ibsen classic ‘An Enemy of the People’May 06, 2026 8:50 am - Janus Theatre stages its adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” The Conspirators revive Moliere’s 17th-century satire “Tartuffe” and Handbag Productions premieres the next in its series of Golden Girls parodies with “The Golden Girls: The Cheese Pyramid.”
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Obama museum tickets on sale Wednesday, May 6May 05, 2026 2:00 pm - Timed, dated tickets for the museum at the Obama Presidential Center go on sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 6. The museum and the presidential center is expected to open June 19.
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Best Bets: The Oh Yeahs at Studio5, and Stand-Up Momedy and Bad Momz of Comedy honor motherhoodMay 05, 2026 1:21 pm - Evanston’s Studio5 welcomes acoustic trio The Oh Yeahs, and Stand-Up Momedy and Bad Momz of Comedy celebrate motherhood through comedy this weekend.