Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Theater events: McAninch stages Shakespeare, Twain double-bill this weekendMar 19, 2015 11:00 pm - Double bill in DuPage The McAninch Arts Center presents a comedy-tragedy double bill of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in Ki...
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Paramount in Aurora unveils its fifth seasonMar 17, 2015 10:00 am - Two musical masterpieces and two recent Broadway hits make up the Paramount Theatre's 2015-16 season, its fifth since the Aurora venue started self-producing its own pro...
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Northlight announces 41st season of classics, new worksMar 17, 2015 1:00 am - Northlight Theatre in Skokie begins its 41st season with the Sept. 11 world premiere of Bruce Graham's "Funnyman," which marks the theater's fourth premiere collabor...
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C.S. Lewis' life story affectionately told at MetropolisMar 16, 2015 11:00 pm - From “An Evening With C.S. Lewis,” it's clear writer/director David Payne has a keen knowledge of his subject — the British scholar and Christian apologist who wrote suc...
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George C. Wolfe on how a 94-year-old show sparked creativityMar 16, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - In 1921, a show limped onto Broadway with less-than-rosy prospects. The city was still recovering from the Depression. The show was debuting in the middl...
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Arlington Heights trustee hopefuls talk future of Metropolis at candidate forumMar 15, 2015 7:45 am - Most of the six candidates running for four seats on the Arlington Heights village board say business at the financially troubled Metropolis Performing Arts Centre won't...
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Angela Lansbury's road, from 'Murder, She Wrote' to Noel CowardMar 15, 2015 7:00 am - TORONTO - They begin to cheer as soon as Angela Lansbury emerges, early in Act 1, with a curly, red wig and accent thicker than an overdone Sunday roast. Each night, the...
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Naperville native tackles Jean Valjean for Paramount's 'Les Misérables'Mar 15, 2015 5:30 am - Naperville native Robert Wilde was surprised when, out of the blue, he was asked to audition for the leading role of Jean Valjean in Paramount Theatre's new production o...
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Charismatic leads best thing about 'First Wives Club'Mar 13, 2015 2:00 pm - The pre-Broadway premiere of “First Wives Club,” the musical based on the 1996 film and Olivia Goldsmith's chick-lit novel, owes a great deal to its superb leads: Faith ...
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Peter Gallagher fights infection to return to BroadwayMar 12, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - If there's one thing that musical theater performers fear most it might be silence - their own. Imagine opening your mouth to sing and nothing comes out....