Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Constable: Retired exec rekindles theater spark through 'Saint Joan'Oct 03, 2017 5:30 am - Earlier this year, Libertyville mom Laura Thumel was director of global operations for risk and financial services at Willis Towers Watson, an $8 billion company with mo...
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Theater events: Williams Street Rep revives 'Little Shop of Horrors'Oct 02, 2017 11:00 pm - Don't feed the plants Williams Street Repertory stages "Little Shop of Horrors," the musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken based on the darkly comic 1960 film about a...
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'The Color Purple,' 'Cinderella' join Broadway in Chicago's 2018 seasonOct 01, 2017 11:00 pm - Time-honored tuners "The Sound of Music" and "Cinderella" will be included along with previously announced Broadway tryouts of "Pretty Woman: The Musical" and "The Cher ...
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater delivers inspired all-female 'Shrew'Sep 29, 2017 2:00 pm - The one constant in life is change. Our social, political, cultural and economic landscape shifts, and we adapt. But rarely does change happen all at once. More often t...
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Cher musical debuting in Chicago in JuneSep 27, 2017 11:00 pm - Cher - the pop star, Oscar winner and TV veteran whose career spans more than 50 years - will be the subject of a Broadway-bound bio-musical premiering next year in Chic...
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Northlight's 'Georgia McBride' chronicles the making of a drag queenSep 27, 2017 6:00 am - “Drag ain't a hobby, baby ... Drag is a protest. Drag is a raised fist in a sequined glove.” Tart-tongued Rexy delivers that declaration to neophyte Casey late in “The L...
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Theater events: Werewolf tale 'Man-Beast' opens at First FolioSep 26, 2017 11:00 pm - Flap over flop? Citadel Theatre opens its season with a revival of Moss Hart's backstage comedy "Light Up the Sky." Set in 1948, the action takes place on the opening ni...
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'Pretty Woman' musical set to premiere in Chicago in MarchSep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - "Pretty Woman: The Musical," adapted from the hit 1990 romantic comedy by writer/director Garry Marshall, will premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre next March in advan...
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How Lombard native kills it during death scene onstageSep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - By Dann Gire dgire@dailyherald.com Actress Moira Begale dies so realistically in WildClaw Theatre's violent Chicago production of "Night in Alachua County" that we asked...
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First Chicago International Latino Theater Fest highlights visiting, local companiesSep 24, 2017 7:00 am - The new Chicago International Latino Theater Festival carries the theme “Destinos” (“Destinations”). It's apt since the monthlong festival is spread out among five diffe...