Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Maná rocks the crowd at sold out concertNov 01, 2021 1:00 pm - If a great rock concert is about blasting the crowd into a delighted frenzy, Mexican band Maná hit the mark Thursday night. Maná, which has won three Grammy and five La...
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Top 10 music hitsNov 01, 2021 1:01 pm - Here are the top 10 music hits as they appear in Billboard magazine. Platinum signifies more than 1 million copies sold; Gold signifies more than 500,000 copies sold. Ho...
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Hypocrites carries O'Neill classicNov 01, 2021 1:03 pm - A revival of a 20th century classic, a Chicago premiere and a world premiere are among the recent openings. 'Desire Under the Elms' The Hypocrites don't do melodrama as ...
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Award-winning soprano back with Lyric for debut in 'La Boheme'Nov 01, 2021 1:03 pm - Back "home" with an opera company she loves, American soprano Nicole Cabell is taking her recent worldwide celebrity in stride. Cabell, a 2005 alumna of the Lyric's Patr...
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Heart of 'Sparrow' rises above conventionsNov 01, 2021 1:07 pm - The storybook saga of "The Sparrow" continues. An imaginative, beguilingly told coming-of-age fairy tale about a young girl with a wounded spirit and special...
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The soulful side of a warrior princessNov 01, 2021 1:04 pm - Excuse me, is there a butt-kicking warrior princess in town? Inside a recording studio on Chicago's South Side is blond-haired Lucy Lawless, and she's not screamin...
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Impressive 'La Boheme' debut for Mimi understudyNov 01, 2021 12:57 pm - Lyric Opera of Chicago's Saturday-Monday opening "weekend" is history, and now, "La traviata" and "La Boheme" will be with us exclusively for the rest of this month and ...
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Cubs + '80s song = World Series championship?Nov 01, 2021 12:50 pm - Should the Cubs go with Prince's "Let's go Crazy" -- or another '80s song? An '80s pop anthem can take you places. The Bulls used Alan Parson Project's 1982 hit "Eye in ...
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Cubs '80s pop anthem = World Series championship?Nov 01, 2021 12:46 pm - An '80s pop anthem can take you places. The Bulls used Alan Parson Project's 1982 hit "Eye in the Sky" to introduce their championship teams, and that other Chicago base...
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Genesis lives in land of contradictionNov 01, 2021 12:49 pm - The schizophrenic classic rock behemoth known as Genesis played the United Center Tuesday and demonstrated that everything about it is writ large. The number of nights i...