Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Struming siblings: Assad Brothers tune up for guitar festJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Starting on Thursday, for a mere $25 -- less than the price of the cheapest high balcony seat at Chicago's Symphony Center-- guitar aficionados can attend world-class c...
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Coachella Fest unveils music lineupJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Portishead, Jack Johnson and former Pink Floyd principal Roger Waters will headline the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 25-27 a...
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British take on 'My Fair Lady' sparklesJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Anyone who thinks "My Fair Lady" is dated obviously hasn't been watching reality TV lately. The Cinderella make over is a cultural constant, be it on vapid TV makeover s...
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Puppeteer goes smaller with 'Giant'Jan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - When spoke with Chicago-based puppet master Blair Thomas two years ago he was working with songwriter Michael Smith on Smith's adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "T...
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Horton Foote: The 'American Chekhov'Jan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Mention Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee, and the average person responds with a knowing smile. Mention Horton Foote and that smile likely turns to a p...
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Director turns 'Titus Andronicus' into an intriguing piece of theaterJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - It's all fun and games until someone gets his throat slashed and winds up as pie filling. That irreverent inversion of the old "it's all fun and games until somebody ge...
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'Little Dog' unleashesJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - When people talk about About Face Theatre's highly entertaining Chicago premiere of "The Little Dog Laughed," one name will dominate the conversation. Mary Beth Fisher. ...
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Jazz and bluesJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Jazz Fair The 30th annual Jazz Fair takes place from 7 p.m. to midnight today at the Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St., Chicago, featuring the Edwin Sanch...
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Poet's life, work honored with 'Ainadamar' programsJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's concert performances Feb. 7-12 of the opera "Ainadamar" ("Fountain of Tears") by CSO Mead composer-in-residence Osvaldo Golijiov promise...
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Tombstone bluesJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - When Chicago musician and guitar instructor Arlo Leach journeyed to Memphis on a cemetery hunt favoring seminal blues musician long past, he found himself stumped when t...