Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Things to do Aug. 8-14: Hampshire Coon Creek Country Days, Gurnee Days, Taste of Glen Ellyn and moreAug 05, 2025 11:07 am - Mark your calendar for Hampshire Coon Creek Country Days, Smoke and Irons Music Fest, Burr Ridge Art Fair, Gurnee Days, Taste of Glen Ellyn, Midwest Classic Supershow and more happening this week.
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Spotlight: Hershey Felder channels Russian composer in ‘Rachmaninoff and the Tsar’Aug 05, 2025 10:13 am - Pianist/actor Hershey Felder returns to Writers Theatre to perform his latest composer bio-tuner “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar” while Oil Lamp Theater salutes the late great Stephen Sondheim with the jukebox revue “Side by Side by Sondheim.”
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Des Plaines Theatre turns 100 as ‘important connection’ between city’s past and presentAug 01, 2025 9:33 am - The Des Plaines Theatre will mark its centennial Aug. 9 with a parade, 25-cent movie tickets, musical performances and more.
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Goodly Creatures returns this summer with Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’Jul 30, 2025 12:45 pm - This summer, Goodly Creatures brings Shakespeare’s hilarious romantic comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” to Geneva, Elgin, Schaumburg and Algonquin.
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Concerts Aug. 1-7: Cyndi Lauper, Train, Death Cab for Cutie and moreJul 30, 2025 9:35 am - Upcoming concerts this week include Cyndi Lauper, Train, Lollapalooza, Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone, Death Cab for Cutie, Toad the Wet Sprocket with The Jayhawks and Sixpence None the Richer and more.
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Love letters: Metropolis’ charming ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise’ chronicles wartime romanceJul 30, 2025 9:30 am - David Moreland and Isabelle Muthiah play two people who fall in love through letters they write each other during World War II in Metropolis Performing Arts Centre’s production of the epistolary dramedy “Dear Jack, Dear Louise.”
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Things to do Aug. 1-7: Lollapalooza, National Night Out events, Warrenville Summer Daze and moreJul 29, 2025 4:50 pm - Mark your calendar for Lollapalooza, National Night Out events, North Aurora Days, Hampshire Coon Creek Country Days, Warrenville Summer Daze, Festival of the Arts in Libertyville and more happening this week.
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Spotlight: Tony Award-winning ‘Parade’ plays CIBC TheatreJul 29, 2025 11:48 am - The national tour of the 2023 Tony Award-winning musical “Parade” plays Chicago’s CIBC Theatre. Meanwhile in Skokie, Music Theater Works revives the beloved “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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Best Bets: Movies by moonlight at Cantigny, Destination Asia at Morton ArboretumJul 28, 2025 4:41 pm - Watching movies in the moonlight at Cantigny, listening to The New Philharmonic at McAninch Arts Center’s Lakeside Pavilion and celebrating Asian culture at the Morton Arboretum are some notable events happening this weekend in the suburbs.
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Moody Blues bassist John Lodge keeps his drive as a singer in a rock and roll bandJul 28, 2025 1:23 pm - John Lodge, bass player and vocalist for the legendary British band The Moody Blues, brings his “Singer in a Rock and Roll Band” tour to St. Charles Aug. 6 and Des Plaines Aug. 7.