Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Spotlight: 'Dracula' on the air in Libertyville, 'Hoodoo Love' opens in ChicagoOct 22, 2019 6:00 am - Radio drama 'Dracula' Improv Playhouse reprises its radio version of "Dracula" using Orson Welles' script from The Mercury Theater's 1938 broadcast, which unfolds, as do...
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Here's the list of 2019 Jeff Award winnersOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - The following is a list of 2019 equity Jeff Award recipients Production play - Large: "Downstate," Steppenwolf Theatre Company Production play - Mid-size: "Frankenstein,...
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Improv Playhouse to perform 'Dracula' in radio show formatOct 20, 2019 11:00 pm - Improv Playhouse will be performing Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula" as a staged radio drama using the original 1938 Orson Welles' script Friday and Saturday, Oct. ...
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Female artists dominate, but suburban theaters also honored at 51st Jeff AwardsOct 20, 2019 11:00 pm - Female theater artists - including Drury Lane, Marriott, Northlight and Paramount theater veterans E. Faye Butler, Barbara E. Robertson and Donica Lynn - prevailed in th...
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On stage: First Floor stages Chicago premiere of 'Sugar in Our Wounds'Oct 18, 2019 6:00 am - • While the Civil War rages, a young slave and his plantation family take in a stranger, an act that sparks an unexpected romance in "Sugar in Our Wounds" by Donja R. Lo...
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Downers Grove actress sends up '80s sitcom in Handbag's 'Facts of Life'Oct 18, 2019 6:00 am - In 2015, aspiring actress Alexa Castelvecchi, then a student at Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts, wasn't doing much acting. "I had not been cast...
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Meet the playwright behind a 'deeply raw space' on BroadwayOct 15, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Playwright Jeremy O. Harris has a rule that he doesn't cry in public. He broke that rule the night Rihanna attended his Broadway debut. Harris uses the s...
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Spotlight: Billy Gardell does standup at the Raue, Janus stages unrehearsed 'Macbeth'Oct 14, 2019 11:00 pm - Billy Gardell on stage Comedian/actor Billy Gardell, co-star of the new CBS sitcom “Bob Hearts Abishola,” headlines the Raue Center for the first time where he'll share ...
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On stage: Hollis Resnik stars in Porchlight's 'Sunset Boulevard'Oct 11, 2019 6:00 am - • Hollis Resnik stars as faded film star Norma Desmond in Porchlight Music Theatre's season-opening production of the musical "Sunset Boulevard," adapted from the 1950 f...
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Josh Groban plans to 'let go' in upcoming show seriesOct 08, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Josh Groban has a date for Valentine's Day - with 6,000 or so of his fans. The singer-songwriter said Tuesday he has booked New York's City's massive Rad...