Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Here's the list of 2019 Jeff Award winnersOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - The following is a list of 2019 equity Jeff Award recipients Production play - Large: "Downstate," Steppenwolf Theatre Company Production play - Mid-size: "Frankenstein,...
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Buckcherry, America coming to Genesee Theatre in WaukeganOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - The rock bands Buckcherry and America are both coming to the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan this winter. Buckcherry will perform with Adelitas Way at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3...
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Improv Playhouse to perform 'Dracula' in radio show formatOct 20, 2019 11:00 pm - Improv Playhouse will be performing Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula" as a staged radio drama using the original 1938 Orson Welles' script Friday and Saturday, Oct. ...
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Folk, blues singer Mark Dvorak coming to Wheaton's Acorn CoffeehouseOct 20, 2019 11:00 pm - Chicago's "official troubadour" Mark Dvorak will perform folk, blues and original songs during an appearance next month in Wheaton. The singer-songwriter will perform at...
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Female artists dominate, but suburban theaters also honored at 51st Jeff AwardsOct 20, 2019 11:00 pm - Female theater artists - including Drury Lane, Marriott, Northlight and Paramount theater veterans E. Faye Butler, Barbara E. Robertson and Donica Lynn - prevailed in th...
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Best bets: Spend an 'An Evening with Travis Tritt' at the GeneseeOct 20, 2019 7:00 am - Heralding the hunt Conductor Nicholas Kraemer leads the Music of the Baroque in hunting-inspired pieces in the concert “The Chase - Haydn, Handel & Rameau” this week at ...
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Rocker Liz Phair unpacks memories, emotions in memoir 'Horror Stories'Oct 20, 2019 7:00 am - When she began writing her new memoir, Liz Phair found she wanted to tell inside-the-mind stories, not behind-the-scenes stories. “I'm more interested in the life of a h...
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Weekend picks: Kansas carries on at Waukegan's GeneseeOct 19, 2019 7:31 am - Costumed canines A Pet Costume Parade & Contest is just one of many family-friendly activities at the Fall Fest on Saturday at Randhurst Village, 1 Randhurst Village Dri...
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Youth theater group to present 'Seussical the Musical' in Des PlainesOct 19, 2019 7:15 am - Join The Cat in the Hat on a whimsical journey from the Jungle of Nool, to Circus McGurkus, to the tiny land of Who as he tells of the adventures of Horton the Elephant,...
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Ravinia's leader stepping down after 2020 seasonOct 19, 2019 1:00 am - Welz Kauffman, the Ravinia Festival president and CEO who has helmed the world-renowned music behemoth in Highland Park for nearly two decades, will be stepping down fro...