Articles filed under Professional Theater
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First Chicago International Latino Theater Fest highlights visiting, local companiesSep 24, 2017 7:00 am - The new Chicago International Latino Theater Festival carries the theme “Destinos” (“Destinations”). It's apt since the monthlong festival is spread out among five diffe...
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'Tuesdays with Morrie' canceled at Glen Ellyn's McAninchSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - The McAninch Arts Center presentation of the play "Tuesdays with Morrie" on Saturday, Sept. 30, has been canceled. Jamie Farr ("M*A*S*H") was to have starred in the tou...
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Inspired, visceral 'View From the Bridge' opens Goodman Theatre's seasonSep 21, 2017 11:30 am - The final moments of Belgian director Ivo van Hove's meticulously minimalist revival of “A View From the Bridge” depict despair so starkly, so viscerally it almost takes...
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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...