Articles filed under Professional Theater
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15 shows for fall: Classic tuners, new commissions, ever-resonant dramas among this season's theater highlightsSep 22, 2022 7:30 am - Musicals showcasing determined women; an operatic take on a beloved Broadway tuner; the stage adaptation of a popular film romance; dramas examining racism and the legac...
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Theater community unites for special anti-censorship podcastSep 21, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The theater community is banding together for a special podcast to combat censorship that features performances from plays and musicals under threat and ...
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Kudos for 'Cabaret': Metropolis revival boasts solid acting, dynamic chorusSep 20, 2022 11:00 pm - “Cabaret” - ★ ★ ★ ½ “Cabaret” has no shortage of memorable tunes. From the Emcee bidding the audience “Willkommen” in the deliciously naughty opening number to the feve...
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Spotlight: 'Frankenstein' opens at Glenview's Oil Lamp, 'Alma' at American Blues TheaterSep 20, 2022 6:00 am - A tale for the season Oil Lamp Theater stages Vincent S. Hannam's adaptation of "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley's gothic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a physician who aspire...
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Founding Mother confronts her complicity in Steppenwolf's 'Miz Martha Washington'Sep 19, 2022 6:00 pm - "The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington" - Martha Washington has a lot to answer for, and the Black people she and her husband enslaved ...
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Rapper-actor Common to make his Broadway debut in NovemberSep 16, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Rapper and actor Common will make his Broadway debut this fall in Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 'œBetween Riverside and Crazy.'ť The...
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'The Phantom of the Opera' to close on Broadway next yearSep 16, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - 'œThe Phantom of the Opera'ť - Broadway's longest-running show - is scheduled to close in February 2023, the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic soft...
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Spotlight: Elgin's Janus Theatre puts a new spin on an epic taleSep 16, 2022 6:00 am - Come to the 'Cabaret' In 1929 Berlin, against the backdrop of the rising tide of Nazism, an American writer falls in love with a British chanteuse in John Kander and Fre...
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Leading lady's star turn more than makes up for Marriott's mechanical glitches in 'Hello, Dolly!'Sep 15, 2022 11:00 pm - “Hello, Dolly!” - ★ ★ ★ ½ The road to opening night isn't always smooth. Take Marriott Theatre's jolly revival of “Hello, Dolly!” whose opening was delayed two weeks aft...
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Meet Little Amal: A puppet celebrating New York City's rootsSep 15, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - New York City's latest celebrity visitor is stopping traffic even in this jaded, larger-than-life town. Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Sy...