Articles filed under Professional Theater
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'Scrooge,' 'Sex with Strangers' part of Citadel Theatre 2017-18 seasonApr 13, 2017 1:00 am - Citadel Theatre in Lake Forest has announced its 2017-18 season. The lineup features: • "Light Up the Sky" (Sept. 29-Oct. 29): Moss Hart's classic 1948 Broadway comedy a...
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Theater events: Paramount stages African-American 'Jesus Christ Superstar'Apr 10, 2017 11:00 pm - 'Shakespeare in Love' Chicago Shakespeare Theater concludes its 30th anniversary season with the U.S. premiere of "Shakespeare in Love," Lee Hall's stage adaptation of t...
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Sally Field embraces Broadway role in unconventional 'Glass Menagerie'Apr 10, 2017 6:00 am - As with virtually everything else about the brazenly unconventional new "The Glass Menagerie" on Broadway, the first glimpse an audience gets of Sally Field is her Amand...
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A divine showing of divas put the 'broad' in BroadwayApr 10, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK - In the beginning, there was Ethel. Merman, the legend who required no introduction or microphone. Ethel begot icons such as Mary Martin, Liza Minnelli and Bar...
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Constable: Murray brother knows Cubs, golf fashionApr 10, 2017 5:30 am - On the cusp of the most talented Cubs team in more than a century raising the 2016 championship banner Monday at Wrigley Field, a comedian/actor/Cubs fan with the last n...
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Gurnee actor conquers challenge of playing a spirit in 'For Peter Pan'Apr 09, 2017 7:20 am - For Doug McDade, it's a fine line playing a spirit. In the first scene of "For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday," audiences will experience the Gurnee resident playing ou...
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Harry Potter play works magic with 9 wins at Olivier awardsApr 09, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - J.K. Rowling's boy wizard bewitched the page and the screen, and stage sequel "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" cast its spell at British theater's Olivi...
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The Latest: 'Harry Potter' playwright: Us vs. PlayStationsApr 09, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The Latest on British theater's Olivier Awards (all times local): 8:35 p.m. Playwright Jack Thorne says he hopes "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" can be...
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Cast change in Paramount's 'Jesus Christ Superstar'Apr 08, 2017 1:00 am - Paramount Theatre in Aurora on Saturday announced a cast change to its all African-American production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." Evan Tyrone Martin, originally s...
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Longtime director, instructor helped create Elgin's Janus TheatreApr 06, 2017 1:00 am - Study. Practice. Pass it on. If theater artist and educator Terry Domschke had a credo, that would have been it. One of the principle architects of Elgin's Janus Theatr...