Barbara Vitello
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Deer Park event promotes breast cancer awarenessOct 11, 2014 1:01 am - Among the people who attended Saturday's breast cancer awareness at Deer Park Town Center were survivors, some still battling the disease. Some attended in memory of a l...
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Theater events: Body image at play in Clockwise's 'Impenetrable'Oct 10, 2014 9:00 am - Body image A spa billboard showing a gorgeous, bikini-clad woman with arrows pointing to her imperfections and how they could be improved provokes outrage in a Chicago s...
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First Folio's 'Gravedigger' poses provocative questionsOct 10, 2014 5:45 am - Can a terrible act be forgiven? Can a despicable creature redeem himself? Those are the questions Joseph Zettelmaier raises in "The Gravedigger," his "Frankenstein"-ins...
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Porchlight revists Sondheim classic for delectable 'Sweeney Todd'Oct 09, 2014 1:01 am - For Porchlight Music Theatre, reviving "Sweeney Todd" meant filling some pretty big shoes. Its own. Ten years ago, the company's laudable production of Stephen Sondheim...
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Ex-cab driver sentenced to 35 years for sexual assaultsOct 08, 2014 1:01 am - A former cabdriver charged with sexually assaulting two women he picked up outside a Prospect Heights nightclub and attempting to assault a third pleaded guilty to the c...
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Naperville man sued in crash that left woman paralyzedOct 08, 2014 1:00 am - Attorneys for Kelsey Ibach, the 25-year-old Arlington Heights native paralyzed last month when a car she was in plummeted from a bridge into a rail yard, filed suit Wedn...
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Top-notch ensemble makes Steppenwolf's 'Night' come aliveOct 05, 2014 6:15 am - "I wouldn't want to live there," said the woman sitting behind me at a recent performance of Steppenwolf Theatre's "The Night Alive." She was referring to Todd Rosentha...
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Arlington Heights man charged with fourth DUIOct 03, 2014 1:01 am - An Arlington Heights man, who prosecutors say has three previous misdemeanor DUI convictions, faces new charges of felony aggravated DUI, leaving the scene of an acciden...
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Deferred prosecution in Schaumburg drug caseOct 03, 2014 1:00 am - A Cook County judge dismissed drug charges against one of two men arrested on drug charges last July in a parking lot at Schaumburg's Woodfield Mall, court records show....
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Steppenwolf announces expansion, new leadershipOct 02, 2014 3:08 pm - Steppenwolf Theatre announced on Thursday plans to expand its Halsted Street home. To that end, the acclaimed Chicago theater company is attempting to raise $55 million ...