Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Bring your costumes for First Folio's 'Dracula'Oct 29, 2008 11:00 pm - When the audience showed up in costumes that rivaled the garb of the actors on stage, members of the Oak Brook-based First Folio Theatre knew they had a hit play on thei...
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Digging into madness with The GravetonesOct 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Ever since Screamin' Jay Hawkins burst out of his coffin to howl "I Put a Spell on You," horror and rock have gone hand-in-claw. At the very dawn of rock 'n' roll - of y...
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ACM names Strait artist of the decadeOct 29, 2008 11:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- George Strait will receive the Academy of Country Music's Artist of the Decade award in recognition of his nearly 25-year career. Only four other act...
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Steppenwolf's 'Glass Menagerie' earnest, powerfulOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - No Chekhovian gun placed onstage has ever packed as much dread as the precious little unicorn figurine when it's set precisely if tenuously on an end table in "The Glass...
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Previews continue for Marriott's 'Aladdin'Oct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Previews continue for the Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences production of "Aladdin," inspired by the 1992 Disney film about an urchin whose life transforms when a gen...
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Chicago-based Rabid Rabbit finds balance between art, mayhemOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Rabid Rabbit, "Rabid Rabbit" (Interloper), By a strange set of circumstances, the spacy, heavy strains of experimental doom have edged their way into tastemakers' i...
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Co-founder of Joffrey Ballet diesOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - The man who co-founded the Joffrey Ballet and oversaw its move from New York to Chicago has died. Gerald Arpino was a dancer and choreographer when he established the tr...
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Led Zeppelin may tour without PlantOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Led Zeppelin may reunite without their lead singer Robert Plant, according to a BBC report. The group's bassist John Paul Jones said he and his fellow band mem...
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Tireless Mauceri makes sure to save time for fundamentalsOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - One word to describe John Mauceri, conducting this fall's production of "The Pearl Fishers" at Lyric Opera of Chicago, is "indefatigable." Mauceri is not only a world-cl...
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Booker T. and the MGs join Musicians Hall of FameOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ Guitarist Duane Eddy picked his rumbling "Peter Gunn" instrumental and Rolling Stone Keith Richards jammed with The Crickets on "Not Fade Away" as a h...