Articles filed under Professional Theater
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BrightSide's 'Spamalot' revival solid, but needs polishJun 10, 2016 6:00 am - Naperville's BrightSide Theatre concludes its fifth season on a merry note with a revival of “Monty Python's Spamalot,” the irresistibly irreverent musical inspired by t...
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Hottest ticket in town? Chicago's 'Hamilton' tickets on sale June 21Jun 09, 2016 7:00 am - Editor's note: This story was updated to correct ticket prices. The mad dash for "Hamilton" in Chicago begins at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 21, when single tickets go on...
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Cast outshines the material in Steppenwolf's 'Voice Lessons'Jun 07, 2016 1:00 am - It should surprise no one that Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart and Maile Flanagan perform like a well-oiled machine in “Voice Lessons,” the inaugural production in Steppe...
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Theater events: A writer confronts his identity in Grippo Stage's 'Ben Hecht Show'Jun 06, 2016 11:00 pm - Hecht in his words Grippo Stage Company premieres "The Ben Hecht Show," written and performed by James Sherman ("The God of Isaac," "Affluenza!" "Half and Half"), a...
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Sally Field to return to Broadway in 'The Glass Menagerie'Jun 06, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Emmy- and Oscar-winner Sally Field will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of "The Glass Menagerie," playing a part she has tackled before but n...
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Meet Tony Award nominee Cynthia Erivo, 'a force of nature'Jun 06, 2016 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Actors are rarely like their characters, but few actors these days are as far apart from them as Cynthia Erivo. The English actress plays Celie in the revival...
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Steppenwolf duo illuminates lovely 'Constellations'Jun 04, 2016 7:00 am - The ingenuity of Joe Schermoly's set for “Constellations” isn't immediately apparent. But by the end of this lovely play by British playwright Nick Payne, it becomes cl...
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Theater events: Light Opera Works revives 'My Fair Lady'Jun 03, 2016 6:00 am - LOW's 'My Fair Lady' Nick Sandys, Remy Bumppo artistic director and First Folio Theatre artistic associate, reprises his role as prickly phonetics professor Henry H...
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Metropolis announces additions to 2016-17 seasonJun 02, 2016 1:00 am - The Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights announced several additions to its 2016-2017 season, including the return of The Second City and a holiday fav...
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Goodman cooks up hearty personal drama in 'Soups, Stews'Jun 01, 2016 12:00 pm - A laughably stereotypical 1970s kitchen greets audiences for Rebecca Gilman's world-premiere drama “Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago...