Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Spotlight: Paramount Theatre launches season with musical 'Newsies'Aug 28, 2019 6:00 am - Read all about it Paramount Theatre opens its Broadway season with "Newsies," the stage adaptation of the 1992 Disney film about the New York City newsboy strike of 1899...
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Writers Theatre's 'Into the Woods' casts emotional, enchanting spellAug 24, 2019 7:00 am - “Into the Woods” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Late in Writers Theatre's enchanting, emotionally satisfying revival of “Into the Woods,” the fairy tale characters blame each other for their...
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Theater events: Patti Vasquez headlines 8th Annual Chicago Women's Funny FestivalAug 23, 2019 1:10 pm - • Steel Beam Theatre hosts its next Night Moose Comedy Jam featuring the improv team 4 of Diamonds at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at 111 W. Main St., St. Charles. Admission ...
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5 things to do this weekend in the suburbsAug 23, 2019 9:00 am - Grammy Award-winning star Sting brings his “My Songs” tour to Ravinia for two nights and actor and comedian Jon Lovitz does standup at the Arcada in St. Charles. Good ti...
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14 for fall: Premier picks for Chicago, suburban theater productionsAug 23, 2019 5:58 am - On Chicago-area stages this fall, theatergoers will encounter fairy tales and literary adaptations, historical events re-imagined and true stories retold - including a r...
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Theater spotlight: Marriott Theatre's 'Something Rotten!' skewers ShakespeareAug 21, 2019 9:49 am - Walkabout: Scary tales Scary tales are on tap this weekend during the latest production in Janus Theatre's Walkabout: Theater on Your Feet series in which guides le...
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5 things to do this weekend in the suburbsAug 16, 2019 9:00 am - Bernadette Peters performing Broadway show tunes at Aurora's Paramount Theatre and comedian Dave Coulier doing standup at Crystal Lake's Raue Center are just two of many...
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Theater events: The Lovettes wax nostalgic at Metropolis; Theatre Y stages a pilgrimage in ChicagoAug 16, 2019 6:00 am - • "Mixtape," a 45-minute improvised drama chronicling the evolution of a relationship through the songs on a mix tape, opens Friday, Aug. 16, at Theatre Momentum, a comp...
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Director Gary Griffin goes 'Into the Woods' at Writers TheatreAug 15, 2019 11:00 am - “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim's fairy tale-inspired musical opening next week at Writers Theatre, wasn't a show director Gary Griffin wanted to direct. “It wasn't...
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Spotlight: Janus Theatre stages unrehearsed 'Merchant' in ElginAug 14, 2019 6:00 am - 'Merchant' in Elgin The Elgin Shakespeare Project, a Janus Theatre initiative involving producing William Shakespeare's plays according to 16th-century practices, resume...