Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Aurora's Paramount stages majestic, macabre 'Sweeney Todd'Feb 14, 2017 10:00 pm - Mother nature accommodated Paramount Theatre's opening of “Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” the macabre and masterful musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hu...
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Theater events: Writers Theatre examines 'The Scene'Feb 14, 2017 5:00 am - Making the 'Scene' Writers Theatre resident director Kimberly Senior returns to the North Shore to helm "The Scene," Theresa Rebeck's black comedy set in Manhattan ...
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Metropolis gets heady with Shakespeare-inspired 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern'Feb 13, 2017 4:00 pm - Hollywood has no bones about making film franchise spinoffs with minor characters from earlier blockbusters. Just look at how DreamWorks Animation let the cat out of the...
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Glenn Close revisits 'most challenging role I've ever had'Feb 09, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Returning to reprise one of her most iconic stage triumphs was relatively easy for Glenn Close. All she had to do was go to her closet. The actress keeps...
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Northlight's timely 'Faceless' examines terrorism in heady courtroom dramaFeb 08, 2017 10:00 pm - “Faceless” may well leave you breathless. Selina Fillinger's timely new play about identity and faith expresses its myriad ideas so quickly and so unrelentingly that it...
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Class, self-preservation animate Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's 'Good People'Feb 08, 2017 5:00 am - “Good People,” David Lindsay-Abaire's superb examination of class and self-preservation, shows us life on the verge of economic ruin. And in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble's s...
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Theater events: Solve Valentine's murder-mystery with Improv PlayhouseFeb 07, 2017 5:00 am - Valentine's mystery Improv Playhouse hosts a Valentine's Day-themed murder-mystery dinner. Set during the 1940s, "Love You to Death" is a "killer" interactive comedy com...
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'Sky's the limit' for popular Chicago Theatre WeekFeb 06, 2017 5:00 am - For theater lovers anticipating Chicago Theatre Week, which begins Thursday, Feb. 9, there is good news and bad news. The good news is they can select from 125 productio...
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Play of George Orwell's '1984' coming to Broadway this yearFeb 03, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A new British stage adaptation of George Orwell's chilling dystopic novel "1984" is coming to an America where issues of "newspeak" and surveillance are ...
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Mozart meets his match: Stage hit 'Amadeus' comes to screenFeb 02, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - For a play that makes audience members contemplate their own mediocrity, "Amadeus" is quite the crowd-pleaser. Britain's National Theatre has a sold-out hi...