Articles filed under Performing Arts
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The soulful side of a warrior princessOct 04, 2007 11:00 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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Maná rocks the crowd at sold out concertOct 04, 2007 11:00 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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Hypocrites carries O'Neill classicOct 04, 2007 11:00 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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Departing conductor looks back on 51 years of opera in ChicagoOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Back in 1956, the 2-year-old Lyric Opera of Chicago desperately needed a replacement conductor for its scheduled production of Verdi's "Il Trovatore" and almost reluctan...
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What Mark Guarino's listening to this weekOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Home spun What Mark Guarino's listening to this week Robert Pollard, "Coast To Coast Carpet of Love" (Merge) GBV veteran can't stop making albums ... Robert Pollard, "S...
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Award-winning soprano back with Lyric for debut in 'La Boheme'Oct 04, 2007 11:00 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 conventionsOct 04, 2007 11:00 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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Theater group turns its reducing eyes on HollywoodOct 04, 2007 11:00 pm - Austin Tichenor has built a career out of making nothing out of something. As a member of the crazy Reduced Shakespeare Company, he helped squeeze all of Shakespeare's p...
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Cubs + '80s song = World Series championship?Oct 03, 2007 11:00 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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Impressive 'La Boheme' debut for Mimi understudyOct 03, 2007 11:00 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 ...