Barbara Vitello
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Best Bets: Barricade Boys and YAMATO drummers on stage at the MACFeb 17, 2025 6:25 pm - The MAC welcomes The Barricade Boys and YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan, the stars of “Queer Eye” share backstage tales at the Chicago Theatre and singer-actress Alexis J. Roston channels jazz great Ella Fitzgerald at the Metropolis.
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Rock ’n’ roll heart: Suburban promoter Ron Onesti inducted into Rock Godz Hall of FameFeb 14, 2025 8:27 am - Lifelong music lover and entrepreneur Ron Onesti never really wanted to play rock ’n’ roll. He wanted to produce it. His decades-long efforts spent championing live music in Chicago will be recognized Sunday when he’s inducted into the Rock Godz Hall of Fame.
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Worth the wait: Lookingglass returns with delightful ‘Circus Quixote’Feb 12, 2025 6:49 pm - A hearty welcome back to Lookingglass Theatre Company, which returns after a 19-month hiatus with “Circus Quixote,” a thoroughly entertaining adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ adventure tale “Don Quixote.”
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Spotlight: Metropolis stages concert version of ‘Mary Poppins’Feb 12, 2025 9:21 am - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre stages a concert version of “Mary Poppins;” the stage version of “Clue” opens at the CIBC Theatre; Citadel Theatre revives Lauren Gunderson’s teen two-hander “I and You” this week in Chicago area theater.
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Best Bets: Cirque du Soleil’s ‘OVO’ at the NOW Arena, Second City at the MACFeb 11, 2025 11:57 am - Cirque du Soleil’s family-friendly, insect-themed spectacle “OVO” takes over NOW Arena for six shows, Second City brings its “best of” revue to the McAninch Arts Center, and Elmhurst University hosts its 58th jazz festival.
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Property-line dispute sparks neighbors’ border war in BTE’s first-rate ‘Native Gardens’Feb 10, 2025 2:08 pm - Was the speaker in the Robert Frost poem “Mending Wall” right? Do good fences make good neighbors? Check out Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s brisk, well-acted revival of “Native Gardens” and find out.
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Drury Lane revives Carole King bio-tunerFeb 07, 2025 1:42 pm - The bio-tuner’s terrific score propels Drury Lane Theatre’s revival of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”
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Judge to consider if Highland Park survivors can be present during accused shooter’s trialFeb 06, 2025 11:44 am - A Lake County judge will decide Feb. 20 if survivors of the July 4, 2022 mass shooting in Highland Park and family members of those killed may be present during testimony when the accused shooter’s trial begins later this month.
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‘Wheel of Fortune’ auditions this weekend at Chicago Auto ShowFeb 05, 2025 2:43 pm - TV game show “Wheel of Fortune” will audition prospective contestants this weekend at the Chicago Auto Show.
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‘We’re the heart sellers’: Effervescent performances animate Northlight’s poignant revivalFeb 05, 2025 9:46 am - Silence speaks volumes in Northlight’s charming revival of “The Heart Sellers,” featuring the ideally cast Aja Alcazar and Seoyoung Park as the endlessly likable strangers turned friends who give each other the support to thrive in their adopted homeland.