Barbara Vitello
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Playing 'Alice': Suburban actresses master circus arts to play title role in Lookingglass Theatre classicJun 15, 2022 11:00 pm - When Glen Ellyn native Molly Hernández was in college, she told her mom she was running off to join the circus. For the actress who turned professional at 9 and co-star...
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Cook County sheriff's candidates off ballot after Supreme Court declines to hear casesJun 14, 2022 1:00 am - Then there were two. In the Democratic primary for Cook County sheriff, only incumbent Tom Dart and Sgt. Noland Rivera remain in the race now that the Illinois Supreme C...
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Metropolis announces 2022-2023 season to include 'Ragtime,' 'Cabaret' and 'Xanadu'Jun 11, 2022 1:00 am - Two classic musicals, a sendup of a bad 1980s movie musical and a comedy about the making of a drag queen will be part of the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's 2022-20...
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New roller skating-inspired tuner 'Skates' needs finessingJun 09, 2022 11:30 am - “Skates” - ★ ½ One thing going for “Skates,” the new, nostalgia-fueled, pandemic-delayed tuner that opened Sunday at Chicago's historic Studebaker Theater, is that it pr...
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Spotlight: Chicago premiere of 'Life After' debuts at GoodmanJun 08, 2022 11:00 pm - All-star revival An ensemble made up of Chicago theater all-stars and an all-female creative team partner for Drury Lane Theatre's revival of "Steel Magnolias," Robert ...
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New home, same mission: Palatine agency that helps needy residents ready for next chapterJun 07, 2022 5:30 am - Journeys The Road Home, a Palatine agency that assists Northwest suburban residents who are unhoused or at risk of losing their homes, is preparing for its next chapter....
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Republican attorney general candidate: 'Where they do not enforce the law, we will enforce it'Jun 06, 2022 1:00 am - A Republican candidate for Illinois attorney general said if elected, he will set up a process whereby police can ask the office to step in if their county state's attor...
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Copley Theatre's 'Hand to God' is a wrenching, riotous examination of the war withinJun 03, 2022 8:00 am - “Hand to God” - ★ ★ ★ Rarely has the war within been portrayed as wrenchingly and as riotously as it is in director Trent Stork's fiendishly funny revival of “Hand to Go...
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Spotlight: Comedian Paula Poundstone headlines the Genesee June 11Jun 01, 2022 11:00 pm - Paula on stage HBO and Comedy Central veteran Paula Poundstone, a "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" panelist and host of the NPR podcast "Live From the Poundstone Institut...
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Spotlight: 'Late Nite Catechism,' 'Little Mermaid' and 'Mamma Mia!' return to the stageMay 27, 2022 6:00 am - 'Late Nite' deal Chicago-area theater veteran and Dominican University faculty member Rose Guccione takes on the role of the cantankerous Sister in a special anniversary...