Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Ron Onesti: ‘American Bandstand,’ a sock hop in the skyJun 03, 2024 9:22 pm - It’s hard to believe that rock ’n’ roll icon Dick Clark would have been 95 this year. When I think of him, a few questions come to mind: How many lives has American rock ’n’ roll touched? How many careers did Dick Clark launch or foster?
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History illuminated: Women play 19th-century male explorers in Janus Theatre’s ‘Men on Boats’May 30, 2024 8:35 am - An all-female cast plays members of John Wesley Powell’s 19th-century geological expedition to what is now known as the Grand Canyon in Janus Theatre’s revival of “Men on Boats” by Jaclyn Backhaus.
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Best Bets: Rosemont’s Bark at the Ballpark, The Venue turns 5, John Cusack Q&AMay 29, 2024 11:36 am - The Chicago Dogs in Rosemont welcomes baseball fans and their canine pals, and Aurora’s The Venue fetes turning 5 with special outdoor concerts this weekend.
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‘Simply the best’: The MAC announces upcoming season, starting with Tina Turner tributeMay 28, 2024 3:00 pm - McAninch Arts Center’s just-announced 2024-2025 season includes music, dance, theater, laughs and more.
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Spotlight: Chicago’s Strawdog puts modern spin on ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’May 28, 2024 1:28 pm - Strawdog Theatre updates Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners “The Importance of Being Earnest” to Chicago’s Boystown and the rock and hip-hop musical “Six,” about the six wives of Henry VIII, returns to Chicago for a brief run.
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Festivals May 31 to June 6: Gilberts Community Days, Cream of Wheaton, Roselle Lions Rose Festival, Pride parades and moreMay 28, 2024 12:00 pm - Mark your calendars for Gilberts Community Days, Cream of Wheaton, Pride parades in Elgin, Waukegan and Buffalo Grove, Chicago’s Puerto Rican Festival and more happening this week.
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Concerts May 31 to June 6: Turnpike Troubadours, Tim McGraw, Anitta and moreMay 28, 2024 11:19 am - Check out concerts by Turnpike Troubadours, Tim McGraw, Anitta, Liquid Soul, Tomorrow x Together and more this week in the Chicago area.
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Memorial Day parades, services, fundraisers in the suburbsMay 26, 2024 11:18 pm - Memorial Day parades, services and observances throughout the suburbs will pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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Hi Infidelity singer Dave Mikulskis rolls with the changes to fight Parkinson’sMay 26, 2024 9:26 am - Dave Mikulskis and Sammy Hagar both will tell you there’s only one way to rock. Since Mikulskis’ 2018 diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease, the high-tenor vocalist of the popular cover band Hi Infidelity continues to lash into 1980s classics with the vigor and range he has always had.
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Perfect ‘English’: Goodman’s funny, provocative Chicago-area premiere ponders the price of proficiencyMay 24, 2024 12:56 pm - The deceptively simple “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about Iranians learning to speak the titular language, is a lovely, thought-provoking examination of language and identity. It runs through June 16 at Goodman Theatre.