Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Smashing Pumpkins sue Virgin Records over 'Pepsi Stuff' promotionMar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- The Smashing Pumpkins are suing Virgin Records, saying the record label has illegally used their name and music in promotional deals that hurt the band's ...
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'Sweet Charity,' sweet indeedMar 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Everyone knows the "showstopper," the number that so delights an audience, they can't stop applauding. Most musicals count themselves lucky to have one. Drury Lane Thea...
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Beatles sue to block release of recordings made in 1962Mar 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Lawyers for the Beatles sued Friday to prevent the distribution of unreleased recordings purportedly made during Ringo Starr's first performance with the group in 1962. ...
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Awakening to self-acceptanceMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - "A Man of No Importance" put a smile on my face. It lasted the better part of Bailiwick Repertory's enthusiastic revival of the chamber musical by the "Ragtime" trio of ...
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Pared down 'Carousel' gets to the heart of the matterMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The scant whimsy that Court Theatre's gracefully unadorned "Carousel" evokes comes in the form of a small, gilded horse suspended above John Culbert's sparse, wood-plank...
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'Breaking the Silence' series continues at RaviniaMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The Ravinia Festival is best known for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's annual summer residency, and last week's 2008 season announcement detailed the CSO's 72nd season...
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Intimate 'M. Butterfly' succeeds on many levelsMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly" is many things. A masterful deconstruction of Puccini's masterwork, "Madame Butterfly," Hwang's smart, multilayered play is also a cle...
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A 'more confident' Avril Lavigne puts more energy into her showMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The term "mall punk" begins and ends with Avril Lavigne, the 23-year-old Canadian who earned her chops playing concerts in food courts, only to work her way up to arenas...
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Recently announced showsMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Following is a list of recently announced shows. Ticket prices do not reflect service or handling fees. Emerson Hart, Double Door, 1572 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago: p...
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Former Beach Boys bandmates settle lawsuit over use of nameMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Two former members of the Beach Boys settled a five-year legal dispute over use of the band's name, a lawyer said. Al Jardine and Mike Love reached an agr...