Articles filed under Professional Theater
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After cancer diagnosis, Broadway star fights backJan 07, 2014 4:45 am - NEW YORK — Valisia LeKae has a New Year's resolution that has nothing to do with weight loss, money or watching less TV. “I will be cancer-free in 2014,” she's vowed. T...
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'Phantom' tour brings actor back to ChicagoJan 05, 2014 4:30 am - Former Chicago actor Ben Jacoby, now appearing in the newly re-imagined national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster musical "The Phantom of the Opera," is quick t...
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Though ‘Spider-Man’ leaving Broadway, a part staysJan 04, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Before Spider-Man takes his final bow on Broadway this weekend, the show is swinging into history in another way. Producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”...
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Chicago native getting into the spirit of musical 'Ghost'Jan 03, 2014 4:30 am - Chicago native Carla R. Stewart has an ambition to appear onstage in three recent Broadway musicals that have been adapted from films that starred Whoopi Goldberg. Ste...
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Theater events: Start 2014 laughing with Steve CochranJan 02, 2014 5:00 am - ‘Funny: 2014' Full-time WGN radio personality and part-time standup comedian Steve Cochran headlines the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's first comedy show of 20...
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The AP picks its Top 10 theater of 2013Dec 27, 2013 5:03 am - NEW YORK — This year’s best-in-theater list is overstuffed: There are revolting children, classic plays and circus acrobats. There are two knights playing two clowns and...
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Theater events: Black Ensemble extends 'Curtis Mayfield'Dec 27, 2013 4:30 am - Ÿ Black Ensemble Theater has extended its original production of “It's All-Right to Have a Good Time: The Story of Curtis Mayfield.” Performances continue through March ...
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Theater program teaches young women to think criticallyDec 25, 2013 11:00 pm - "Where are all the female critics?" That question - raised more than seven years ago as part of a panel discussion sponsored by the Association for Women Journalists - ...
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'American Psycho' musical looks like a bloody hitDec 21, 2013 4:45 am - LONDON — Is any subject too macabre to make a musical? Not on the evidence of past works including Stephen Sondheim's “Sweeney Todd,” about a homicidal barber, and his p...
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J.K. Rowling to work on Harry Potter stage playDec 20, 2013 7:06 am - LONDON — Harry Potter has traveled from page to screen — and now to stage. J.K. Rowling said Friday she is working on a play about the boy wizard’s life before he attend...