Barbara Vitello
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Broadway in Chicago hoping 'Elliot' comes close to 'Wicked,' 'Jersey'Mar 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Catching lightning in a bottle isn't easy. But Broadway in Chicago has managed it twice in the last decade, first with its blockbuster "Wicked," which ran more than thre...
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Musician chooses art over loved ones in Metropolis' 'Side Man'Mar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - "Side Man" - Warren Leight's semi-autobiographical jazz era encomium about artistic obsession and family dysfunction - falls somewhere between an homage and an admonitio...
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Bond set at $3 million for woman in Schaumburg hotel shootingMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - A Cook County judge set bond at $3 million Wednesday for an Elgin woman charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 29-year-old Rockford man at a Schaumb...
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Drury Lane aims for show of epic proportionsMar 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Drury Lane gets epic Drury Lane Theatre Oak Brook promises its revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens' musical "Ragtime" - about immigrant life in America at...
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Ex-Hoffman Estates man charged in Florida hit-and-run deathsMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - After more than a year, Fort Lauderdale police have charged Ryan LeVin, formerly of Hoffman Estates, in the February 2009 hit-and-run deaths of two British tourists, pub...
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Palatine woman charged in drug saleMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - A Cook County judge set bond at $80,000 Monday for a 31-year-old Palatine woman charged with possession of cannabis with intent to distribute, a Class X felony that carr...
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Catch 'Flanagan' in Arlington Hts., St. CharlesMar 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Noble Fool and the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre celebrate St. Patrick's Day with performances of "Flanagan's Wake," the popular interactive comedy in which quirky I...
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Man gets 35 years for slaying of Arlington Heights womanMar 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Almost 21/2 years after her murder, justice came for Arlington Heights resident Dana Mangi, a young woman with a strong character and infectious personality whom her mot...
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'Billy Elliot' makes the leap from Broadway to ChicagoMar 10, 2010 10:00 pm - When "Billy Elliot" made le grande jeté from cinema to stage five years ago, it landed exactly where it belongs. So says director Stephen Daldry, who insists the story ...
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Mt. Prospect man receives 5 years for pellet gun assault, retail theftMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - At his sentencing Tuesday in a Rolling Meadows courtroom, John Guy apologized for shooting a teenage golfer in the leg with a pellet gun last August, saying he never int...