Articles filed under Performing Arts
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What's it like to dance 'The Nutcracker'? It's a marathon of painDec 23, 2017 6:29 am - Her calves are cramping and her back is aching, but if Megan Johnson, a New York City Ballet dancer, peers through her false eyelashes at the first rows of the audience ...
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Weekend picks: I Fight Dragons takes on Lincoln HallDec 23, 2017 6:00 am - I Fight Dragons at Lincoln Hall Their catalog is already packed with catchy songs (including a couple of surprisingly beautiful ballads), but Chicago pop-rock band I Fig...
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Constable: Worldwide fame for 'accidental tenor' from Hawthorn WoodsDec 23, 2017 12:00 am - When his boss wouldn't let Donald Kaasch out of work to attend the birth of his daughter in 1986, a co-worker came to the Hawthorn Woods man's defense. World-renowned te...
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5 things to do this weekend in the suburbsDec 22, 2017 9:30 am - Light up your holiday at Morton Arboretum's Illumination Saturday or get in a laugh or two at "The Second City's Nut-Cracking Holiday Revue." Here are five ways to have ...
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Museum dedicated to funk music genre opens in OhioDec 22, 2017 6:00 am - DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A museum dedicated to the funk music genre has opened its doors in Ohio. The president of the Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center in Dayton...
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Weekend picks: Modern Day Romeos play 'Home for the Holidays' at RaueDec 22, 2017 5:00 am - Banding together Modern Day Romeos and Lava Rock are the guest bands appearing in Williams Street Repertory's series of concerts called "Home for the Holidays - A Collab...
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District 128 projects win grants from community foundationDec 22, 2017 4:30 am - Fourteen innovative projects at Libertyville High School and sister school Vernon Hills High have received grants totaling more than $18,771 from a local community found...
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Facebook signs deal with music label Universal MusicDec 21, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook and record label Universal Music Group have signed a multiyear deal that will let Facebook users share videos that have the label's music in the...
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Tickets go on sale today for 3 cover bands coming to the ArcadaDec 21, 2017 12:00 am - Tickets for three shows by three cover bands at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles are going on sale at noon Friday. Mr. Blotto's Procrastinator's Ball will play at 8 p.m...
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20-somethings negotiate friendship, intimacy in Steppenwolf's uneven 'BLKS'Dec 20, 2017 10:00 am - “BLKS” - ★ ★ ½ Watching Steppenwolf Theatre's premiere of “BLKS,” Aziza Barnes' noisy, uneven new comedy about 20-something African-American women negotiating friendship...