Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Theater events: Otherworld's choose-your-own-adventure show returnsJun 15, 2018 6:00 am - • Otherworld Theatre's choose-your-own-adventure show returns for its fourth installment beginning Friday, June 15, at 3914 N. Clark St., Chicago. The superhero is based...
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Steppenwolf's 'Guards at the Taj' testifies to power of art, friendshipJun 13, 2018 12:00 pm - “Guards at the Taj” - ★ ★ ★ ★ At the end of the lengthy opening scene in Steppenwolf Theatre's “Guards at the Taj,” about a pair of low-level imperial flunkies standing ...
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'Supergirl' Melissa Benoist is 'coming home' to BroadwayJun 12, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - To get ready to play legendary songwriter Carole King on Broadway, Melissa Benoist had to learn her lines and complicated stage directions. Lyrics, not s...
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Theater spotlight: Phylicia Rashad makes Steppenwolf debut with 'The Roommate'Jun 12, 2018 6:00 am - Cohabitation comedy Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad makes her Steppenwolf Theatre directing debut with "The Roommate," Jen Silverman's comedy about cohabitation. Stepp...
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The beat goes on: 'The Cher Show' premieres in ChicagoJun 11, 2018 5:20 pm - Rest assured Cher fans, one of the star's signature mannerisms - the hair flip - appears in all its incarnations in the new Broadway-bound musical "The Cher Show" beginn...
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Josh Groban, Sara Bareilles rely on each other for Tony gigJun 10, 2018 7:26 am - NEW YORK - Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles say they're glad they're hosting Sunday's Tony Awards together, in part because of their banter. The Broadway veterans say they...
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Theater events: Underscore reveals revised Chicago-set 'Haymarket'Jun 08, 2018 6:00 am - • Workers at a yoga store find their lives upended after violence takes place nearby in "Clearing," a dark, coming-of-age comedy by Beth Hyland. Commission Theatre's pro...
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Theater club at NASA center gives scientists creative outletJun 07, 2018 7:00 am - GREENBELT, Md. (AP) - Susan Breon wears two hats: scientist and musician. By day, she's a cryogenics engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she works on w...
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Lookingglass dives into Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Seas'Jun 07, 2018 6:00 am - “20,000 Leagues Under the Seas” - ★ ★ ★ ½ From its exquisite “Eastland: A New Musical” to the rollicking “Treasure Island” to the grand examination of obsession that was...
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Powerful 'Father Comes Home' shocks and moves in Goodman's Chicago premiereJun 07, 2018 6:00 am - “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)” - ★ ★ ★ ★ The past is always present and vice versa in “Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3),” now making...