Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Best bets: Sparkle Light Festival, Illumination: Tree Lights, Disney 100, 'The Illusionists'Nov 13, 2023 10:00 pm - Holiday lights • The opening of the 2023 Sparkle Light Festival brings back ice skating, tubing, a two-story ice slide, illuminated villages, kids' activities, trai...
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Leading lady gives showstopping turn in Marriott's heartfelt 'Beautiful'Nov 13, 2023 4:00 am - YouTube So primed was the audience for Marriott Theatre's first Chicago-made production of #8220;Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,#8221; they began applauding before K...
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Hail to the actual chiefs: Crackerjack cast powers Steppenwolf's 'POTUS'Nov 08, 2023 4:00 pm - “POTUS” — ★ ★ ★ ½ “POTUS: or, Behind Every Great (expletive) are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” commenced with an unprintable word that likely shocked some S...
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Spotlight: Citadel revives 'She Loves Me,' 'Jim Henson's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas' debutsNov 08, 2023 5:00 am - Tuneful romance A pair of squabbling co-workers, unaware that they are anonymous pen pals, fall in love in Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1963 musical "She Loves ...
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Suburban actresses describe Teatro Vista's 'Bernarda!' as a theater experience unlike any otherNov 01, 2023 11:00 pm - Teatro Vista's new interpretation of “The House of Bernarda Alba,” early 20th-century Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's tragedy about a despotic matria...
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Best Bets: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, 'HYPROV,' 'Sinatra Forever' and moreNov 01, 2023 6:00 am - Let's go to the circus Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey brings its re-imagined circus to the Allstate Arena, 6920 Mannheim Road, Rosemont. Performers — including ...
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Spotlight: 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' opens at Paramount, 'Cinderella' graces stage at Drury LaneOct 31, 2023 6:00 am - Fact and fiction TimeLine Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of "Lifespan of a Fact," a comedy by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell about an inter...
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Goodman Theatre's acclaimed 'The Who's Tommy' opens on Broadway next MarchOct 26, 2023 8:00 am - In an announcement that surprised no one who experienced the incandescent revival last summer, Goodman Theatre's re-imagined production of "The Who's Tommy" will open on...
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Funny business: 'We're just trying to get people to laugh' say 312 Comedy Fest headlinersOct 25, 2023 11:00 pm - Actress/comedian Mary Lynn Rajskub has a few words for fans attending the inaugural 312 Comedy Festival. “I have high expectations for Chicago,” said Rajskub (“24,” “It'...
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Barrington theater company seeks donors for 'Stage the Build' campaignOct 25, 2023 1:00 am - For Barrington's Parker Players Theater Company, essentially a traveling troupe since early 2020, the show will go on permanently at 540 W. Northwest Hwy., within an exp...