Barbara Vitello
-
World premiere musicals highlight suburban theater scene in 2015Jan 01, 2015 6:30 am - Editor's note: Rhett Guter will choreograph Drury Lane Theatre's production of "West Side Story." The 2015 Chicago-area theater forecast calls for world-premiere mu...
-
Northwest suburban Cook County court cases of 2014Dec 28, 2014 12:01 am - A Hoffman Estates family devastated by an early-morning attack in April 2009 waited five years for justice. They got it in 2014 in the form of three life sentences for 2...
-
Theater events: Sasheer Zamata plays Zanies RosemontDec 26, 2014 8:00 am - Exit 2014 laughing “Saturday Night Live” featured player Sasheer Zamata headlines Zanies Rosemont on New Year's Eve. Known for her impressions of Michelle Obama and...
-
Some suburban theaters soar, but others take a final bowDec 26, 2014 4:30 am - During a year in which Paramount Theatre in Aurora's profile continued to soar in its first Jeff Award eligible season and Writers Theatre in Glencoe broke ground on wha...
-
Hoffman Estates teen pleads guilty to damaging mailboxesDec 20, 2014 12:01 am - A Hoffman Estates teen who police say smashed dozens of Schaumburg mailboxes last September pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charges on Thursday, according to court rec...
-
Theater events: Light Opera Works updates 'Widow'Dec 19, 2014 6:00 am - LOW's ‘Merry Widow' Stacey Tappan stars as Hanna Glawari in Light Opera Works' production of the Franz Lehar opera “The Merry Widow.” Reprising the role she played ...
-
Bold, engaging 'Airline Highway' a show worth seeingDec 19, 2014 5:00 am - If there is an heir apparent to the late Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled society's fringe dwellers in such plays as “Balm in Gilead”...
-
Probation for Wheeling man who attacked 63-year-oldDec 19, 2014 12:01 am - A 23-year-old Wheeling man who prosecutors say assaulted a 63-year-old woman in September after she returned home with her groceries, pleaded guilty to aggravated batter...
-
Mount Prospect man admits driving on revoked licenseDec 19, 2014 12:01 am - A Mount Prospect man with two DUI convictions pleaded guilty to driving on a revoked or suspended license earlier this month, court records show. Dean McKinney, 50, who...
-
Former teacher pleads guilty to obscenityDec 19, 2014 12:01 am - A 30-year-old Palatine man has pleaded guilty to an obscenity charge related to contact with a teenager, court records show. Brian Rossetti, who taught physical educati...