Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Theater events: Otherworld previews superhero comedy 'All I Want is One More Meanwhile'Sep 20, 2018 8:25 am - • Eclectic Full Contact Theatre opens its seventh season with J.M. Barrie's play "Dear Brutus," about the guests at a country house - including an artist, a philanderer,...
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DeVos' dramatic confirmation hearing inspires drama on stageSep 18, 2018 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Guns in schools to protect students from grizzly bears? Betsy DeVos endured yet another rocky Senate confirmation hearing to become education secretary...
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Steppenwolf's new drama 'Downstate' explores the lives of sex offendersSep 18, 2018 2:00 am - Elmhurst resident and longtime Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Francis Guinan is both excited and apprehensive to be starring in Bruce Norris' new drama “Downstate,”...
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Letting the art happen: Elgin Fringe festival celebrates 5 yearsSep 15, 2018 1:00 am - Whatever happens, happens. That was the motto Elgin Fringe Festival co-founders Sean Hargadon and Erin Rehberg embraced when they established the performance and visual ...
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Theater review: Drury Lane's well-cast 'Little Shop of Horrors' is plant food for thoughtSep 14, 2018 4:00 pm - "Little Shop of Horrors" - ★ ★ ★ ½ When it comes to musical comedy camp, "Little Shop of Horrors" is a masterpiece. Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace allows the br...
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Theater events: Pat McGann headlines comedy show at the MetropolisSep 14, 2018 6:00 am - Monologist Roberta Miles brings her adults-only solo shows “I Want a Banana and Other Desperate Love Stories” and “Cracked: Surviving My Life” to the Prop Thtr, 3502 N....
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Theater review: Marriott Theatre's super 'Sweet Charity' has perfect rhythmSep 14, 2018 3:00 am - “Sweet Charity” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “The rhythm of life is a powerful beat, puts a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet.” Behold the words of Daddy Johann Sebastian B...
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble delivers laughs in dated farce 'The Dingdong'Sep 13, 2018 2:00 pm - “The Dingdong, or How the French Kiss” - ★ ★ ★ Silly fun abounds in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's bed-hopping, door-slamming sex farce “The Dingdong, or How the French Kiss...
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Paramount's 'Legally Blonde' musical makes a strong case for funSep 12, 2018 11:00 am - “Legally Blonde: The Musical” - ★ ★ ★ It's easy to underestimate a musical like “Legally Blonde,” the confection adapted from the 2001 film about Elle Woods, a perky, pr...
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Teatro ZinZanni dinner-theater set to open in Chicago next yearSep 12, 2018 1:00 am - Cabaret artists, comedians and cirque-style performers will descend on Chicago's theater district beginning in April with the opening of Teatro ZinZanni, a dinner-theate...