Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Grab a tissue — musical 'Beaches' comes ashore at Drury LaneJun 22, 2015 6:00 am - Author Iris Rainer Dart is used to jokes about “Beaches” being a guaranteed weepie — particularly the 1988 film adaptation with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey. Even to...
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Louie Anderson, Rita Rudner team up for Genesee showJun 22, 2015 1:00 am - Twice the laughs. That's how the Genesee Theatre is promoting the double bill of comedians Louie Anderson and Rita Rudner, coming to the Waukegan theater on Sept. 19. T...
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Marriott's 'City of Angels' a hilarious, hard-boiled Hollywood sendupJun 19, 2015 4:00 pm - The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire's sophisticated production of "City of Angels" goes out of its way to clue audiences in on the complicated stories about to unfold. ...
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Entertaining 'On Your Feet!' needs some tweaksJun 18, 2015 5:15 pm - "On Your Feet!" - the new bio-musical about Cuban-American singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan and her producer/composer husband Emilio - has its audience dancing in the ai...
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Theater events: Hypocrites remounts Sean Graney's 'All Our Tragic'Jun 16, 2015 11:00 pm - 'Tragic' returns The Hypocrites remounts director/adapter Sean Graney's epic production "All Our Tragic," which combines all 32 surviving Greek tragedies into one w...
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Women's funny fest returns to ChicagoJun 14, 2015 7:00 am - Amy Sumpter doesn't have to look far for comedic material. “I'm always the butt of my own jokes,” the Streamwood native says. “I don't like making fun of other people. ...
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Theater events: Well-loved 'Sound of Music' takes stage in NapervilleJun 12, 2015 6:00 am - 'Sound of Music' BrightSide Theatre concludes its fourth season with Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," starring Meg McGarry as Maria, Tony Lage of Wes...
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'City of Angels' receives rare revival at MarriottJun 09, 2015 11:00 pm - For musical theater afficionados, the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire's revival of “City of Angels” is a big deal. That's because this jazzy 1989 musical comedy about t...
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'Fun Home,' 'Curious Incident' big winners at TonysJun 07, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - The poignant and groundbreaking coming-of-age show "Fun Home" was named best musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday, one of five big trophies it won on the way ...
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'Fun Home' latest musical to push the envelope while on the roadJun 07, 2015 7:00 am - NEW YORK - There is a coffin sitting onstage. A lesbian is the narrator. There are no movie stars in it. And we are promised a suicide by Page 9 of the script. "Fun...