Barbara Vitello
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Metropolis announces 2025-26 main stage lineupMay 19, 2025 12:40 pm - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre’s 2025/2026 main stage theater season includes “Grease,” “The Wedding Singer” and “The Wizard of Oz” among others.
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‘Hamilton’ returns to Chicago in 2026May 19, 2025 11:31 am - The record-breaking musical “Hamilton” will return to Chicago in March 2026.
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Goodman’s provocative ‘Antiquities’ leaves a lasting impressionMay 16, 2025 12:20 pm - Jordan Harrison’s artfully constructed, century-spanning, sci fi tale about A.I. supplanting humans premieres at the Goodman Theatre under directors David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan.
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Purrrrrfection: Paramount’s cirque-inspired ‘Cats’ dazzles the eyes and earsMay 14, 2025 4:53 pm - Paramount Theatre’s cirque-inspired revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” is a nearly perfect revival of the popular, albeit polarizing, musical.
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble announces 2025-2026 seasonMay 14, 2025 1:27 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble announced its 2025-2026 season will begin in November with “Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley.”
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Best Bets: Morton’s ‘Vivid Creatures’ and Santa’s Village open this weekendMay 13, 2025 1:54 pm - There’s a lot to choose from this weekend: Lisle’s Morton Arboretum welcomes “Vivid Creatures,” Santa’s Village opens for the season in East Dundee, Parkway Bank Park hosts the annual Spring Fun Fest and more.
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Spotlight: The Conspirators reimagine Macbeth as a police officer in ‘Chicago Cop Macbeth’May 13, 2025 8:31 am - The Conspirators reimagine Shakespeare’s Macbeth as a Chicago police officer in “Chicago Cop Macbeth,” Aurora’s Paramount hosts an in-progress reading of the new bilingual musical “Mija,” and Evanston’s Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre premieres “Honeypot.”
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Saving lives on a sunny Saturday: Blood donors offer ‘A Pint for Kim’May 11, 2025 7:39 am - Outside Naperville North High School, a mini-fest with kids’ games, food, music and a car show was taking place. Inside, donors participating in the sixth annual “A Pint for Kim” blood drive were saving lives.
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St. Charles, Lombard, Downers Grove businesses named best places to work in IllinoisMay 09, 2025 11:17 am - Daily Herald honors St. Charles, Lombard and Downers Grove businesses as among the best places to work in Illinois.
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Nothing succeeds like 1980s excess in Metropolis’ ‘Rock of Ages’ revivalMay 07, 2025 6:01 pm - Over-the-top in the best possible way, “Rock of Ages,” the jukebox musical send-up of 1980s glam metal and the people who loved it, gets a high-energy revival courtesy of the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.