Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Cheap fun: Pop/rock in Palatine, famous cars of film and TVJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - $10 and under These 'Candles' can rock The pop/rock group Sixteen Candles headlines at Durty Nellie's. 10 p.m. Friday, June 12, Durty Nellie's, 180 N. Smith St., Palatin...
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'Billy Elliot' wins 10 Tonys; 'Carnage' best playJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- "Billy Elliot," the big British musical about a coal miner's son who dreams to dance, bowled over Broadway on Sunday, winning 10 Tonys, including best musica...
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Musical "Camelot" opens season for RaviniaJun 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Ravinia Festival opened its season Friday night in Highland Park with the musical "Camelot." Tony winner George Hearn and two-time Grammy winner Sylvia McNair led the en...
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'Crowd' battles it out over child-rearingJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - For a few moments during "The Crowd You're In With," it felt like playwright Rebecca Gilman might pull her punch. She didn't. The Chicago-based Gilman ("Spinning Into B...
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Roundup of fairs, festivals this weekendJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Des Plaines Park District's Chase to the Taste Fun Run/Walk, |Downtown Des Plaines, along Ellinwood Avenue: 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday, June 6. (847) 922-0556. Visit desplaine...
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Ravinia opens for the summer season this weekendJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - A picnic on the lawn, an admission price freeze and a typically wide-ranging menu of music by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and leading artists. It can mean only one th...
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Local auditionsJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - • The Lyric Opera of Chicago holds auditions for 18 solo dancers for its 2010 production of "The Damnation of Faust" from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at 20 N. Wack...
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Whitney Houston's new album due in SeptemberJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The date for Whitney Houston's comeback has been set. Arista Records says her long-awaited album will be released Sept. 1. Houston hasn't released a CD in se...
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Grammy-winning Chicago blues legend Koko Taylor dies at 80Jun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Koko Taylor, a sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues," has died after complications from surgery. S...
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Elgin's Janus Theatre adapting Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'Jun 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Janus Theatre presents "Miss Julie on a Summer Night," an adaptation of "Miss Julie," August Strindberg's examination of class and gender conflict and the exercise of po...