Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Sunday picks: Roll into Motoring at the Museum car showSep 22, 2013 6:00 am - Plein air autos Feast your eyes on classic cars in the Motoring at the Museum car show, while painters take part in the Plein Air Art gathering on Sunday at the Ar...
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Weekend picks: Broadway star graces NCC stageSep 21, 2013 6:00 am - Finding 'Home' Grammy Award-winner and former Broadway star Stephanie Mills (“The Wiz”) sings in concert Saturday at North Central College's Pfeiffer Hall, 310 E. B...
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Inventive storytelling propels whimsical 'Old Man'Sep 20, 2013 6:00 am - PigPen Theatre Company's "The Old Man and The Old Moon" begins subtly. About five minutes before the curtain officially rises at Writers Theatre, where the New York-base...
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Joan Allen back at Chicago's Steppenwolf TheatreSep 19, 2013 11:30 am - CHICAGO — More than two decades after she last acted on the Steppenwolf stage, Joan Allen has returned to the theater where she started her career as the lead in the com...
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Sting's musical will sail to Chicago, then BroadwaySep 19, 2013 10:00 am - NEW YORK — Singer-songwriter Sting's new musical “The Last Ship” will sail onto a Broadway stage after a stop in Chicago. Producers said Thursday that the show — inspire...
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Paramount does right by Tony-winning 'In the Heights'Sep 19, 2013 6:00 am - The energetic regional theater debut of “In the Heights” at the Paramount Theatre shows that this ambitious Aurora venue's Broadway Subscription Series is growing from s...
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Local theater: 'Route 66' in the driver's seatSep 19, 2013 6:00 am - Road trip Four service station attendants in 1950s Chicago hit the open road in “Route 66,” a jukebox revue featuring tunes like “King of the Road,” “Beep Beep” and...
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Weekend picks: Ben Vereen dances into Raue CenterSep 18, 2013 6:00 am - Ben Vereen in concert See legendary singer and dancer Ben Vereen grace the stage at the Raue Center for the Arts, 26 N. Williams St., Crystal Lake. Tickets start at...
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Mount Prospect comedian finds humor in cancerSep 17, 2013 5:00 am - Judy Fabjance is funny. Cancer is not. But the cancer that recently moved into the Mount Prospect native's brain still must share that head space with the always active ...
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Art in Trying Times: 'Signs of Life' a musical Holocaust storySep 16, 2013 5:30 am - Virgina Criste knows that the creation of a musical about the World War II concentration camp Terezin in the former Czechoslovakia is bound to ruffle some feathers. But...