Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Salvation Army hopes free music program can open doors for kidsSep 27, 2021 5:30 am - Daniel Simmons says a music program he joined years ago at the Salvation Army in Elgin changed his life. Now he brings his own kids back to where he started so they can ...
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'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' sashays home with 10 Tony AwardsSep 26, 2021 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - "Moulin Rouge! The Musical," a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's hyperactive 2001 movie, won the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a Sunday nigh...
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Broadway hopes to razzle-dazzle past pandemic at Sunday's Tony AwardsSep 26, 2021 7:00 am - Broadway is in need of a boost these days, so it has smartly called on one of its most beloved, award-winning stage veterans for help - Audra McDonald. McDonald has been...
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City, suburban theaters return with fewer shows but plenty of applause-worthy optionsSep 26, 2021 7:00 am - While a crush of openings typically accompany autumn's arrival, that is not the case this year as the Chicago-area theater community continues to suffer the residual eff...
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Album review: Mickey Guyton soars on her powerful, personal recordSep 25, 2021 7:29 am - "Remember Her Name" Mickey Guyton (Capitol Records Nashville) It's hard enough to be Black woman in America, but Mickey Guyton's path in country music has been espe...
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Love works in its own time in RubyGld Smoke's new single, Saturday showSep 25, 2021 7:15 am - She was rushing up the crowded escalator, late for a performance at the Black Women's Expo at McCormick Place in 2014. "I turned around to yell to them to hurry up. We ...
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X Ambassadors push boundaries with new multimedia projectSep 24, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - To say the third, full-length album from X Ambassadors has a lot going on would be a little bit of an understatement. It's a concept album about a fledg...
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Flying high: Brothers from Geneva finding success in Nashville with alternative country bandSep 24, 2021 6:00 am - Tommy Leland Cantwell and his brother Brandon Cantwell are successful musicians in Nashville, but they have a specific viewpoint regarding their hometown of Geneva. "The...
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How Ben Arguelles and a team of volunteers put on live music DZ Fest every summerSep 24, 2021 6:00 am - How do you build a music festival in your family's backyard? First, don't tell your parents. For the last 10 years, Southwest Suburban Hickory Hills musician, producer...
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'We are back': Marriott's 'The World Goes 'Round' gets deftly re-imagined for the post-pandemic eraSep 23, 2021 11:00 pm - “The World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb” - ★ ★ ★ ½ If all Marriott Theatre had to recommend “The World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb” was the celebrat...