Articles filed under Professional Theater
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'Fun Home' latest musical to push the envelope while on the roadJun 07, 2015 7:00 am - NEW YORK - There is a coffin sitting onstage. A lesbian is the narrator. There are no movie stars in it. And we are promised a suicide by Page 9 of the script. "Fun...
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Who will win at the Tony Awards? Some predictionsJun 06, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - One tip-off that this season on Broadway has been unique is that two of the top musicals had coffins prominently onstage. The season also had royalty, from th...
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Theater events: Light Opera Works revives 'The Fantasticks'Jun 05, 2015 6:00 am - 'The Fantasticks' Light Opera Works stages "The Fantasticks," Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's legendary chamber musical about two fathers' attempts to play Cupid for...
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Goodman's 'stop. reset.' piles on futuristic fearsJun 05, 2015 6:00 am - Don't be surprised if you have a hard time wrapping your head around the conclusion of Regina Taylor's “stop. reset.” Now making its Midwest debut at Chicago's Goodman T...
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Musical 'Once' still sweet second time aroundJun 03, 2015 5:15 pm - Can music break all bonds on the path to love? Or is it better suited as a universal salve to help ease the pain of broken hearts? Local audiences are lucky to ponder t...
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Gloria Estefan's life, music give rise to 'On Your Feet!'May 31, 2015 6:00 am - YouTube Featuring a score of Latin-crossover pop hits created by the Grammy Award-winning Estefan and the band The Miami Sound Machine, #8220;On Your Feet!#8221; theatri...
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Theater events: Mooney does 'Shakespeare on demand' in 'Breakneck Hamlet'May 29, 2015 6:00 am - Fast-paced 'Hamlet' Clockwise Theatre presents the world premiere of "Breakneck Hamlet," writer/actor Tim Mooney's accelerated version of William Shakespeare's long...
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Arlington Heights native, Tony winner Scott Waara stars in 'Once' tourMay 29, 2015 6:00 am - Though he was born and raised in Arlington Heights, Tony Award-winning actor Scott Waara has never performed on a professional Chicago stage. That will change when he ap...
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Northlight's 'Shining Lives' a moving tribute to courageous womenMay 21, 2015 6:00 am - “Work that pays you well, costs something,” warns a character in “Shining Lives: A Musical.” For some young women working at the Radium Dial Company in Ottawa, Illinois,...
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Chicago theater director dies after accident in ScotlandMay 21, 2015 1:00 am - PJ Paparelli, the 40-year-old artistic director of American Theater Company in Chicago, died Thursday while vacationing in Scotland. The writer/director died from injur...