Articles filed under Professional Theater
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NYC theater plans live reading of 'The Interview'Dec 21, 2014 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - Sony may have scrapped the release of the movie "The Interview," but it will be in at least at one theater in New York City - onstage, that is. Treehouse ...
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Theater events: Light Opera Works updates 'Widow'Dec 19, 2014 6:00 am - LOW's ‘Merry Widow' Stacey Tappan stars as Hanna Glawari in Light Opera Works' production of the Franz Lehar opera “The Merry Widow.” Reprising the role she played ...
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With 'Diner,' Sheryl Crow segues to the stageDec 19, 2014 5:01 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When Gene Kelly gazed into the camera, 9-year-old Sheryl Crow of Kennett, Missouri, imagined he was getting ready to sing just for her. "I loved him s...
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Bold, engaging 'Airline Highway' a show worth seeingDec 19, 2014 5:00 am - If there is an heir apparent to the late Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled society's fringe dwellers in such plays as “Balm in Gilead”...
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Make-A-Wish puts Washington teen on Chicago stageDec 19, 2014 12:01 am - Associated Press CHICAGO - An 18-year-old girl from Washington state is getting the chance to live one of her dreams by acting in a production of "A Christmas Carol." T...
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Revised 'Cinderella' still makes musical magicDec 18, 2014 10:00 pm - The show must go on. And at Wednesday's opening of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella," a delicious confection with a scrumptious score, it went on with understudy Audr...
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Brilliant choreography part of 'Newsies' undeniable appealDec 16, 2014 4:30 am - Everything you need to know about the allure of the exuberant "Newsies" was obvious from the excited expressions of the children who arrived by the busload to Chicago's ...
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Broadway star heads to Chicago as touring 'Cinderella'Dec 14, 2014 5:45 am - The actress playing Cinderella on tour has something much more precious than a pair of sparkly slippers waiting backstage. She's got a bouncing baby boy. Paige Faure, a ...
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Theater events: Shift perspectives with 'Marley's Christmas Carol'Dec 12, 2014 4:30 am - Marley's tale Steel Beam Theatre presents Tom Mula's “Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol,” an examination of Ebenezer Scrooge's redemption and reconciliation from the p...
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'Beaches' bumps 'Deathtrap' from Drury Lane Theatre's 2015-16 seasonDec 08, 2014 12:01 am - Chicago isn't the only place where Broadway-bound musicals are locally launched. Officials from the Drury Lane Theatre announced on Monday that the Oakbrook Terrace ven...