Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Local theater companies kick-start their seasonsAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - If you don't like the theater here, wait a few minutes. It'll change. With all due respect to Mark Twain and his oft-quoted quip about New England weather, the adage als...
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Unicycle Loves You: Big ideas meet the skill to deliverAug 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Unicycle Loves You, "Unicycle Loves You" (Highwheel) The debut album by Chicago's Unicycle Loves You opens with clattering percussion, backward keyboard sounds and wordl...
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Suburban productions score big on Jeff nominationsAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - There's joy in Lincolnshire today with Monday's announcement that Marriott Theatre had received 19 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations, most of them for its brilliantly r...
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Beyonce's lil sis carves her nicheAug 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Over the past five years, Solange Knowles has gone through some serious changes. After releasing her lackluster debut CD "Solo Star," she got married at 17, gave birth, ...
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In theaterAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Comedy Comedy Comedy, |at Walter Payton's Roundhouse, 205 N. Broadway, Aurora: Jeff Wayne with special guest Frank Townsend; 8:30 p.m. Aug. 22 and 8 p.m. Aug. 23. Doors ...
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Blue Mountain's backAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - JACKSON, Miss. - For seminal alt-country band Blue Mountain - torn apart by divorce - breaking up was hard to do. Getting back together, it turned out, was pretty easy. ...
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Theatergoers hike, bike as part of outdoor showsAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Frank Farrell has the kind of problem most theater founders dream of having - success. Eleven years ago, Farrell combined his two favorite activities: theater and nature...
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'Fake Lake' entertains and educatesAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Rarely has an artistic team expressed righteous indignation as disarmingly as playwright/actor Sharon Greene and director Halena Kays express it in the Neo-Futurists' en...
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Arts agendaAug 21, 2008 11:00 pm - • The Windy City Gay Chorus and Aria: Windy City Women's Ensemble has auditions the upcoming season between 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 25 and 27 at the Center on Halsted's H...
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Los Campesinos! finds its dynamicAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the more entertaining bands on Arts & Crafts who aren't Broken Social Scene, Los Campesinos! have unleashed a fun, dancey monster of an album with "Hold On Now, Y...