Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Theater events: Route 66 opens season with world premiere of 'The Source'Feb 20, 2017 10:00 pm - Route 66 premiere Route 66 Theatre Company opens its ninth season with the world premiere of "The Source," about two journalists who travel halfway around the world...
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Marriott Theatre's 'Mamma Mia!' a spirited revival of a mediocre showFeb 18, 2017 6:00 am - "Mamma Mia!" is the musical theater equivalent of a conversation candy heart: a sugary, pastel-colored confection lacking nutritional value. But like the candy, "Mamma M...
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Steppenwolf's 'Straight White Men' confronts privilege, but feels slightFeb 15, 2017 5:00 am - “Write about what you know,” young writers are told. It's typically sound advice. Yet playwright Young Jean Lee takes the opposite approach. “When starting a play, I ask...
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Aurora's Paramount stages majestic, macabre 'Sweeney Todd'Feb 14, 2017 10:00 pm - Mother nature accommodated Paramount Theatre's opening of “Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” the macabre and masterful musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hu...
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Theater events: Writers Theatre examines 'The Scene'Feb 14, 2017 5:00 am - Making the 'Scene' Writers Theatre resident director Kimberly Senior returns to the North Shore to helm "The Scene," Theresa Rebeck's black comedy set in Manhattan ...
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Metropolis gets heady with Shakespeare-inspired 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern'Feb 13, 2017 4:00 pm - Hollywood has no bones about making film franchise spinoffs with minor characters from earlier blockbusters. Just look at how DreamWorks Animation let the cat out of the...
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Glenn Close revisits 'most challenging role I've ever had'Feb 09, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Returning to reprise one of her most iconic stage triumphs was relatively easy for Glenn Close. All she had to do was go to her closet. The actress keeps...
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Northlight's timely 'Faceless' examines terrorism in heady courtroom dramaFeb 08, 2017 10:00 pm - “Faceless” may well leave you breathless. Selina Fillinger's timely new play about identity and faith expresses its myriad ideas so quickly and so unrelentingly that it...
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Class, self-preservation animate Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's 'Good People'Feb 08, 2017 5:00 am - “Good People,” David Lindsay-Abaire's superb examination of class and self-preservation, shows us life on the verge of economic ruin. And in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's s...
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Theater events: Solve Valentine's murder-mystery with Improv PlayhouseFeb 07, 2017 5:00 am - Valentine's mystery Improv Playhouse hosts a Valentine's Day-themed murder-mystery dinner. Set during the 1940s, "Love You to Death" is a "killer" interactive comedy com...