Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Theater events: BrightSide takes on 'Cabaret'Jun 13, 2014 5:00 am - Kander-Ebb classic BrightSide Theatre concludes its third season with John Kander and Fred Ebb's classic, “Cabaret.” Inspired by Christopher Isherwood's stories and...
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Lifeline's comic fantasy a 'Monstrous' delightJun 12, 2014 5:30 am - I have never read a novel from fantasy writer Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. But after seeing Lifeline Theatre's zealous, laugh-out-loud world premiere adaptation o...
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Marriott's 'Godspell' goes contemporary, losing hippie-era edgeJun 12, 2014 1:01 am - The hippies of the 1971 musical revue "Godspell" have been replaced with pretty, peppy contemporary Christians at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. It's for the Chic...
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Andrews Sisters tributes boogie onto local stagesJun 11, 2014 5:30 am - Break out the bugles: World War II may be long over, but the sisters who brought Boogie Woogie to the troops are back. More than 45 years after the Andrews Sisters last...
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Predictions for who will and should win at the TonysJun 08, 2014 5:30 am - NEW YORK - It's been a year on Broadway so unpredictable that the only thing for certain at the Tony Awards on Sunday is that Hugh Jackman will be the host. There have b...
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Selected winners at the 2014 Tony AwardsJun 08, 2014 1:01 am - Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Mark Rylance, "Twelfth Night." Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Lena Hall, "Hed...
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Audra McDonald, Bryan Cranston, NPH win TonysJun 08, 2014 1:00 am - NEW YORK — The murderous romp “A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder” has gotten a lot of love at the Tony Awards — it nabbed the best new musical trophy on a night tha...
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How meeting her idol changed Jesse Mueller's lifeJun 07, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK - When Jesse Mueller first sat behind the piano to portray Carole King on Broadway, she had no idea what kind of year she was going to have. It was when the rea...
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'Ask Aunt Susan' exposes online exploitationJun 06, 2014 5:30 am - In Seth Bockley's "Ask Aunt Susan," a cocky twenty-something tech guy becomes an Internet sensation as a phony female advice columnist. The plot of the drama, in a world...
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Theater events: 'Annapurna' a cowboy tale of sortsJun 05, 2014 11:00 pm - Midwest premiere A woman tracks down the cowboy-poet husband she left 20 years earlier at his battered Colorado trailer where he's working on his “magnum opus” in S...