Articles filed under Professional Theater
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75th Tony Awards celebrate a back-in-business BroadwayJun 08, 2022 11:00 pm - After two years of pandemic-prompted delays, the Tony Awards are back on track in time for their 75th anniversary. Broadway's salute to its best marks that milestone Sun...
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McAninch Arts Center announces 2022-23 season of visiting showsJun 07, 2022 8:00 pm - Legacy dance troupes, international vocal ensembles and pop tributes are just a few of the visiting acts coming to College of DuPage's McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn...
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Kyiv theater reopens, plays sell out: `You continue living'Jun 07, 2022 7:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A theater in Ukraine's capital reopened over the weekend for the first time since Russian forces invaded the country, and tickets quickly sold out. ...
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Neighbors in the News: Park Ridge attorney receives Lader Good Citizen AwardJun 06, 2022 11:00 pm - • Longtime Park Ridge resident Jim Argionis, an attorney with Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation practice in Chicago, was named the 2022 recipient of the Sgt. Karen...
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Book celebrates the 50th anniversary of musical 'Grease'Jun 06, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - On Valentine's Day 1972, a musical opened off-Broadway needing a lot of love. It was already $20,000 in debt and the reviews were mixed to poor. A decisi...
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Book celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'Grease'Jun 06, 2022 1:00 am - NEW YORK - On Valentine's Day 1972, a musical opened off-Broadway needing a lot of love. It was already $20,000 in debt and the reviews were mixed to poor. A decision h...
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Copley Theatre's 'Hand to God' is a wrenching, riotous examination of the war withinJun 03, 2022 8:00 am - “Hand to God” - ★ ★ ★ Rarely has the war within been portrayed as wrenchingly and as riotously as it is in director Trent Stork's fiendishly funny revival of “Hand to Go...
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Spotlight: Comedian Paula Poundstone headlines the Genesee June 11Jun 01, 2022 11:00 pm - Paula on stage HBO and Comedy Central veteran Paula Poundstone, a "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" panelist and host of the NPR podcast "Live From the Poundstone Institut...
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John Leguizamo fine-tunes his new musical '~Kiss My Aztec!'Jun 01, 2022 7:00 am - HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - During an afternoon rehearsal of John Leguizamo's 'œKiss My Aztec!,'ť actor Joel Perez bursts into laughter during a raunchy scene with co-star Kr...
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Spotlight: 'Late Nite Catechism,' 'Little Mermaid' and 'Mamma Mia!' return to the stageMay 27, 2022 6:00 am - 'Late Nite' deal Chicago-area theater veteran and Dominican University faculty member Rose Guccione takes on the role of the cantankerous Sister in a special anniversary...