Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Atlanta's The Black Lips make grime grandioseFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Sometime after their first, second or maybe third album, bands considered sure things receive what they've long sought to help realize their perfect sonic dream: a fat, ...
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Dvorak's symphonies highlight CSO seasonFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - With the announcement of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 2008-09 season, the spotlight was on guest conductors, major events and tours, which we discussed last week. Bu...
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4 more singers shown the door on 'Idol' as the show trims competition to 16Feb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Four more aspiring singers failed to convince viewers that they have what it takes to win the star-making talent contest "American Idol." The voting public cut loose Ala...
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Abortion rights drama lukewarmFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Given its incendiary subject matter, you'd think the abortion drama "Keely and Du" would manage to generate more sparks. Centered on abortion rights with men's subjugat...
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Playwright takes aim at Arab stereotypesFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Yussef El Guindi is an educated cultivated man, with a graceful way of speaking and a refined English-accent many Midwestern Americans, with our broad, awkward vowels, w...
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'Richard III' is razor-sharpFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Don't come to Strawdog Theatre's bracing "Richard III" expecting to see Shakespeare's most beguiling villain hunchbacked and shuffling, withered arm limp at his side. Ev...
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'Jersey Boys' to stay in ChicagoFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - The record-setting touring production of "Jersey Boys" which settled into an extended stay following its triumphant October debut at the LaSalle Bank Theatre, will make ...
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Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl comes to town to please everybodyFeb 25, 2008 10:00 pm - That gum-chomping, stage-stalking, joke-telling, beard-wearing, vocal-shredding rocker dude named Dave Grohl didn't want to bum anyone out Monday, even though his music...
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It's a boy and a girl for JLoFeb 22, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Jennifer Lopez gave birth to twins early Friday, making the singer and husband Marc Anthony the parents of a boy and a girl after one of pop music's most clo...
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Minor flaws can't mar 'Les Mis'Feb 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Marriott Theatre's on a roll. After snagging the rights to "The Producers" last year, the Lincolnshire theater scored another coup when it obtained the rights to "Les Mi...