Articles filed under Performing Arts
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‘Investing in ourselves’: Aurora backs $13.8 million in bonds to support downtown theatersSep 11, 2024 8:34 pm - Aurora city council approved the first of a three-phase project to shore up the Aurora Civic Center Authority finances.
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GreenMan Theatre to host auditions for ‘The Cover of Life’Sep 11, 2024 8:12 pm - Interested in a role in an upcoming production of GreenMan Theatre Troupe’s “The Cover of Life” by playwright R.T. Robinson?
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Laugh and learn: Timing’s right for BTE’s revival of political satire ‘The Outsider’Sep 11, 2024 6:15 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s brisk revival of “The Outsider,” Paul Slade Smith’s 2015 satire on politics, comes at just the right time.
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Concerts Sept. 13-19: Air Supply, Haley Reinhart, Crystal Bowersox, beabadoobee and moreSep 10, 2024 5:06 pm - Upcoming concerts include Air Supply, Haley Reinhart, beabadoobee, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Crystal Bowersox and more.
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Best Bets: Follow a butterfly’s journey at Morton Arboretum, laugh it up at Second CitySep 10, 2024 6:08 am - Looking for something to do this week? Learn about a butterfly’s journey at the Morton Arboretum, see Lyric Opera’s season opener “Rigoletto,” laugh it up at The Second City’s newest show and experience Iceland by air at Flyover at Navy Pier.
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Festivals Sept. 13-19: Glendale Heights Oktoberfest, Fright Fest, Des Plaines Fall Fest, West Dundee Heritage Fest and moreSep 10, 2024 6:06 am - Mark your calendars for Des Plaines Fall Fest, West Dundee Heritage Fest, Fall on the Farm at Lambs Farm and more happening this week.
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Regal revival: Uniformly excellent acting animates Drury Lane’s ‘The Audience’Sep 07, 2024 3:54 pm - The supremely talented Janet Ulrich Brooks, who played Queen Elizabeth seven years ago in a Chicago production of “The Audience,” revisits the role in Drury Lane Theatre’s revival of “The Audience” by Peter Morgan.
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Wego Drama to go ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ Sept. 13-14Sep 06, 2024 6:52 pm - Wego Drama at West Chicago Community High School continues their 2024-25 theatrical season with the play “Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole.”
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All in good fun: Paramount Theatre goes all the way with ‘The Full Monty’Sep 04, 2024 5:23 pm - Paramount Theatre launches its 13th Broadway series with the deliciously titillating tuner “The Full Monty,” adapted from the 1997 film about unemployed steelworkers-turned-strippers.
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Best Bets: New Elmhurst exhibitions celebrate movie houses, public artSep 04, 2024 8:49 am - New exhibitions honoring historic movie houses and public art open at two Elmhurst museums; the Fiestas Patrias Festival returns to Aurora’s RiverEdge Park; and blues rocker Kenny Wayne Shepherd plays the suburbs this week.