Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Paramount's 'Million Dollar Quartet' captures golden moment in music historySep 20, 2017 7:00 am - I went to the Paramount Theatre in Aurora Saturday to see a musical, and a concert broke out. Or maybe it was the other way around. But no matter how you characterize it...
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John Mahoney, Francis Guinan return to Steppenwolf to contemplate 'The Rembrandt'Sep 20, 2017 6:00 am - Steppenwolf Theatre Company walks a precarious tonal tightrope with the Chicago debut of “The Rembrandt.” The time-shifting script by playwright Jessica Dickey (“The Ami...
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Theater events: 'Choir Boy' makes Chicago-area premiere at Raven TheatreSep 19, 2017 6:00 am - Chicago premiere A gay teenager at an all African-American prep school takes his rightful place as the leader of the school's renowned choir and punishes the boy who bul...
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater's The Yard emerges on Navy PierSep 19, 2017 1:00 am - The Yard, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's impressive new performance space, reflects Chicago literally and figuratively. Located beneath the billowy white roof that topped...
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Prairie Center Lecture Series Presents "Regretting Mr. Wright"Sep 14, 2017 11:00 pm - The Prairie Center for the Arts welcomes "Regretting Mr. Wright" starring Ellie Carlson at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1. Leaving both their spouses to live in Italy for a year,...
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Buffalo Theatre Ensemble delivers an amusing revival of 'The 39 Steps'Sep 13, 2017 6:00 am - Physical comedy dominates “The 39 Steps,” the farcical whodunit by Patrick Barlow currently running at Buffalo Theatre Ensemble in Glen Ellyn. A sendup and celebration ...
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Theater events: Northlight stages comedy-with-music 'Legend of Georgia McBride'Sep 12, 2017 6:00 am - We are family A cash-strapped Elvis impersonator discovers a new way of making money after a drag show takes over the Florida bar where he performs in "The Legend of Geo...
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Local fall theater forecast: sunny with a good chance of social commentarySep 10, 2017 7:24 am - A year ago, "Hamilton" was the hottest theater ticket in town. And in many ways, it remains so. But Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop tuner about the Founding Father will ge...
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Libertyville native returns to stage in Shattered Globe's Abe Lincoln dramaSep 08, 2017 6:00 am - Tim Kough took a nearly two-decade break from acting to raise his family. When the Libertyville native returned to the stage, he'd found that many things in the industry...
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Proudly silly 'Rock of Ages' features a great cast at Drury LaneSep 07, 2017 11:00 pm - With its parade of pre-existing “hair metal” hits shoehorned into a self-aware script and its unrepentant product placement, “Rock of Ages” harbors no pretense of art, n...