Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Best Bets: Lyric's 'Sunday in the Park' plays Jay Pritzker PavilionAug 24, 2021 6:00 am - Opera outdoors & online Experience the Lyric Opera of Chicago either live or online this weekend. New music director Enrique Mazzola conducts singers from the Ryan Opera...
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New to streaming this week: Kanye West unveils 10th studio album Thursday at Chicago's Soldier FieldAug 24, 2021 6:00 am - Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Music • H...
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Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies at age 80Aug 24, 2021 1:00 am - LONDON - Charlie Watts, the self-effacing and unshakeable Rolling Stones drummer who helped anchor one of rock's greatest rhythm sections and used his "day job" to suppo...
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Kanye West re-creating his childhood Chicago home inside Soldier Field for Thursday showAug 24, 2021 1:00 am - Kanye West isn't bringing just his "Donda" listening event to Soldier Field in Chicago this Thursday. Photographs inside the stadium reveal the hip-hop star is also re-c...
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'American Idol' opens virtual auditions for Illinois singers WednesdayAug 23, 2021 3:00 pm - If your goal is to be the next “American Idol,” Wednesday is your chance get the ball rolling when the musical competition show hosts Illinois auditions for its 20th sea...
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New faces, new ambitions as opera houses reopenAug 23, 2021 7:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - As opera houses around the country warily resume indoor performances, two of the biggest are ushering in new leadership - along with a heightened co...
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When the music stops: Afghan 'happy place' falls silentAug 23, 2021 7:00 am - A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission: to revive musi...
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Nehemiah Heckler a light to Elgin community with new single, 'Blessings'Aug 23, 2021 6:00 am - Elgin rapper Nehemiah Heckler dropped a major positivity bomb on music fans Friday with "Blessings," the uplifting lead single off his upcoming fifth album. In it, he o...
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New murals, music and more at Alley Art Festival Aug. 28Aug 22, 2021 11:00 pm - The Alley Art Festival returns Saturday, Aug. 28, to downtown Aurora. The popular, grass-roots art festival will be back on Water Street Mall and is expanding to the nea...
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Album review: Sturgill Simpson morphs again on new concept recordAug 22, 2021 7:30 am - "The Ballad of Dood & Juanita" by Sturgill Simpson (Thirty Tigers) Sturgill Simpson knows how to do a concept record. His latest, "The Ballad of Dood & Juanita," pr...