Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Spotlight: First Folio debuts bedtime stories series for kidsFeb 17, 2021 5:00 am - First Folio storytellers First Folio Theatre resumes its online reading series of poems and stories and introduces a new version devoted to bedtime stories. While c...
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Spotlight: Rosemont Zanies delivers laughs while Oil Lamp Theater celebrates loveFeb 12, 2021 5:00 am - Zanies Rosemont reopens Zanies Comedy Club in Rosemont reopens this weekend for live performances with limited capacity, physical distancing, and face coverings req...
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Spotlight: Interrobang Theatre Project streams 'Here Lies Henry'Feb 05, 2021 5:00 am - Love is in the air BrightSide Theatre veterans share love songs online as part of the theater's monthlong efforts to warm patrons' hearts during the coldest season....
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DuPage Foundation awards $300,000 to arts organizationsFeb 05, 2021 12:00 am - Two dozen local nonprofit arts organizations shared $300,000 in federal COVID-19 recovery funds, the DuPage Foundation announced this week. Through its Arts DuPage initi...
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Former skateboarding phenom from Lombard shares his story during Fillet of Solo festFeb 03, 2021 10:00 pm - Everybody has a story. And Kurt Naebig gets to share his - going back to his days as a skateboarding phenom - in Lifeline Theatre's virtual version of the 24th annual Fi...
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Bechdel Fest goes virtual to showcase underrepresented theater artistsJan 30, 2021 6:30 am - The theater artists participating in Broken Nose Theatre's 2021 Bechdel Fest are a committed group. To comply with COVID-19 pandemic-mandated shutdowns, they initially a...
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Spotlight: Local favorites appear in Northlight's livestreamed readingJan 29, 2021 5:00 am - Bechdel Fest 8 Broken Nose Theatre presents Bechdel Fest 8: Realign, a festival of short plays featuring femme, female-identifying, nonbinary, transgender and queer acto...
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Visual effects make Metropolis' Sherlock Holmes-inspired streaming comedy possibleJan 27, 2021 10:00 pm - Audiences tuning in to the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's virtual production of "Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery" might be curious about how the...
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Paramount Theatre offering free virtual reading of new playJan 25, 2021 12:00 am - Aurora's Paramount Theatre presents a free virtual reading of "BULL: a love story" at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28. The new play by Nancy García Loza follows a young Mexican...
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Steppenwolf playwright, electronic music composer collaborate on illustrated short 'Red Folder'Jan 21, 2021 5:00 am - When Rajiv Joseph entered first grade, his teacher gave every student a folder. The left side held pending assignments. The right side held completed assignments. Within...