Barbara Vitello
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Messy plot, platitudes cloud rarely produced Hansberry drama at GoodmanMay 11, 2016 11:00 pm - In 1959, Chicago playwright Lorraine Hansberry's masterwork, “A Raisin in the Sun,” became the first drama by an African-American woman produced on Broadway. She follow...
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Schaumburg mom asks for mercy in death of her disabled daughterMay 11, 2016 1:00 am - For 23 years, Bonnie Liltz loved and cared for her severely disabled daughter, Courtney. Never once did she feel it was a burden, the Schaumburg mother told a Rolling Me...
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Mom pleads guilty to reduced charges in disabled daughter's deathMay 10, 2016 1:00 am - Friends, family members and a young man she cared for when he was a baby praised Bonnie Liltz as a loving mother on the same day the Schaumburg woman pleaded guilty to i...
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Theater events: Chicago Shakespeare premieres two-part 'Tug of War' epicMay 09, 2016 11:00 pm - Steel Beam premiere The Scanlon family's annual Independence Day celebration on Cape Cod goes awry in "When Not That Good Will Do," a new dysfunctional family comed...
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Friends support Schaumburg mom charged with disabled daughter's deathMay 09, 2016 1:00 am - Bonnie Liltz won't be alone when she appears at the courthouse in Rolling Meadows Tuesday for a hearing that could lead to a disposition on the charge she killed her sev...
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Roselle man gets 4 years for beating female companion, taking her carMay 09, 2016 1:00 am - A Roselle man was sentenced to four years in prison in exchange for his guilty pleas to a robbery and a domestic battery that occurred last October in Hoffman Estates. ...
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The laughs just keep on coming in Writers, Second City pitch-perfect 'Parody'May 07, 2016 7:00 am - Looking for a good time? Call Writers Theatre in Glencoe and reserve a ticket to “Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody,” the wonderfully irreverent comedy...
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Theater events: House Theatre remounts 'Death & Harry Houdini'May 06, 2016 6:00 am - Houdini returns Actor/magician Dennis Watkins reprises his role as Harry Houdini in The House Theatre of Chicago's remount of its first production, "Death & Harry H...
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'King and I' gets royal treatment at Lyric OperaMay 04, 2016 11:00 am - Aural and visual delights abound in Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of “The King and I,” the majestic 1951 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein about a B...
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Metropolis announces ambitious seasonMay 02, 2016 1:00 am - If the names of several productions slated for the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's 2016-2017 season ring familiar it's because most have been revived recently in the...