Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Book celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'Grease'Jun 06, 2022 1:00 am - NEW YORK - On Valentine's Day 1972, a musical opened off-Broadway needing a lot of love. It was already $20,000 in debt and the reviews were mixed to poor. A decision h...
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Copley Theatre's 'Hand to God' is a wrenching, riotous examination of the war withinJun 03, 2022 8:00 am - “Hand to God” - ★ ★ ★ Rarely has the war within been portrayed as wrenchingly and as riotously as it is in director Trent Stork's fiendishly funny revival of “Hand to Go...
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Spotlight: Comedian Paula Poundstone headlines the Genesee June 11Jun 01, 2022 11:00 pm - Paula on stage HBO and Comedy Central veteran Paula Poundstone, a "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" panelist and host of the NPR podcast "Live From the Poundstone Institut...
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John Leguizamo fine-tunes his new musical '~Kiss My Aztec!'Jun 01, 2022 7:00 am - HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - During an afternoon rehearsal of John Leguizamo's 'œKiss My Aztec!,'ť actor Joel Perez bursts into laughter during a raunchy scene with co-star Kr...
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Spotlight: 'Late Nite Catechism,' 'Little Mermaid' and 'Mamma Mia!' return to the stageMay 27, 2022 6:00 am - 'Late Nite' deal Chicago-area theater veteran and Dominican University faculty member Rose Guccione takes on the role of the cantankerous Sister in a special anniversary...
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Singing about suffrage, and thinking about current strugglesMay 26, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Phillipa Soo says she noticed a change in the audience immediately. News had just dropped of the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion that would overturn...
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Ever-resonant 'To Kill a Mockingbird' a plea for healingMay 20, 2022 4:15 pm - “To Kill a Mockingbird” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “We have to heal this wound or we'll never stop bleeding.” Atticus Finch, the standard-bearer of decency and tolerance Harper Lee int...
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Spotlight: Aurora's Copley Theatre revives darkly comic, puppet-centered 'Hand to God'May 20, 2022 6:00 am - Fourth time's a charm Disappointed by love and life, a pair of adult siblings - twice divorced and once widowed Maria and relationship-averse Anthony - find themselves b...
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Des Plaines actress is right where she belongs - starring in Shattered Globe's 'Rasheeda Speaking'May 18, 2022 11:00 pm - Barbara Roeder Harris was born to theater. She made her debut playing the king in a production of "Cinderella" she and her siblings staged in the family basement. "I wa...
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Jesse Williams addresses leak of Broadway nude sceneMay 16, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jesse Williams vowed not to be discouraged after leaked video and images of his onstage nude scene in the Broadway play 'œTake Me Out'ť were posted onlin...