Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Flashy illusions provide magic in 'Ghost The Musical'Jan 08, 2014 10:00 pm - "Ghost The Musical" is the kind of show where you leave the theater humming the scenery and special effects more than you do the new score. This turns out to be both a m...
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After cancer diagnosis, Broadway star fights backJan 07, 2014 4:45 am - NEW YORK — Valisia LeKae has a New Year's resolution that has nothing to do with weight loss, money or watching less TV. “I will be cancer-free in 2014,” she's vowed. T...
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'Phantom' tour brings actor back to ChicagoJan 05, 2014 4:30 am - Former Chicago actor Ben Jacoby, now appearing in the newly re-imagined national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster musical "The Phantom of the Opera," is quick t...
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Though ‘Spider-Man’ leaving Broadway, a part staysJan 04, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Before Spider-Man takes his final bow on Broadway this weekend, the show is swinging into history in another way. Producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”...
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Chicago native getting into the spirit of musical 'Ghost'Jan 03, 2014 4:30 am - Chicago native Carla R. Stewart has an ambition to appear onstage in three recent Broadway musicals that have been adapted from films that starred Whoopi Goldberg. Ste...
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Theater events: Start 2014 laughing with Steve CochranJan 02, 2014 5:00 am - ‘Funny: 2014' Full-time WGN radio personality and part-time standup comedian Steve Cochran headlines the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's first comedy show of 20...
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The AP picks its Top 10 theater of 2013Dec 27, 2013 5:03 am - NEW YORK — This year’s best-in-theater list is overstuffed: There are revolting children, classic plays and circus acrobats. There are two knights playing two clowns and...
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Theater events: Black Ensemble extends 'Curtis Mayfield'Dec 27, 2013 4:30 am - Ÿ Black Ensemble Theater has extended its original production of “It's All-Right to Have a Good Time: The Story of Curtis Mayfield.” Performances continue through March ...
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Theater program teaches young women to think criticallyDec 25, 2013 11:00 pm - "Where are all the female critics?" That question - raised more than seven years ago as part of a panel discussion sponsored by the Association for Women Journalists - ...
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'American Psycho' musical looks like a bloody hitDec 21, 2013 4:45 am - LONDON — Is any subject too macabre to make a musical? Not on the evidence of past works including Stephen Sondheim's “Sweeney Todd,” about a homicidal barber, and his p...