Articles filed under Professional Theater
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Wheaton actor/director/educator returns to the stage in Copley Theatre's 'Fun Home'Aug 10, 2022 11:00 pm - Late last year, theater artist and former BoHo Theatre artistic director Stephen Schellhardt stepped away from the theater that had been his artistic home for six years....
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Efforts fail to save historic Alaska theater from demolitionAug 04, 2022 7:00 am - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Demolition is scheduled to begin this week on a once-opulent downtown Anchorage movie theater designed by the architect of Hollywood's famed Pan...
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Pandemic-delayed 'Devil Wears Prada' opens in Chicago, and its creatives couldn't be happierAug 04, 2022 6:00 am - It was the first table read for “The Devil Wears Prada,” the Broadway-bound musical premiering at Chicago's James M. Nederlander Theatre, and co-star Taylor Iman Jones w...
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Spotlight: 'Kitties in Space' soars into Otherworld TheatreAug 04, 2022 6:00 am - Felines in space In a future where humans are extinct and pets have enhanced intelligence, cat buddies Socks and Mittens "go where no cat has gone before" in Otherw...
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Lead performer makes a joyful noise in Metropolis' revival of 'Sister Act'Jul 28, 2022 6:00 am - “Sister Act” - ★ ★ ½ “Sister Act,” the musical adapted from the film starring Whoopi Goldberg as an unwitting witness to a mob hit forced to hide out at a convent, requi...
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Spotlight: Paramount's BOLD series stages coming-of-age tuner 'Fun Home'Jul 27, 2022 9:00 am - Welcome 'Home' Paramount Theatre's BOLD series continues with a revival of the Tony Award-winning chamber musical "Fun Home," a coming-of-age/coming-out story based on A...
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Cyndi Lauper says 'Kinky Boots' offers hope for a new timeJul 26, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Three years after it closed on Broadway, the musical 'œKinky Boots'ť returns to New York City. The show may not have changed, but the country has. The Cy...
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Making history: Goodman Theatre names first female artistic director in 97 yearsJul 26, 2022 1:00 am - Change is coming to 170 N. Dearborn St., Chicago on Oct. 3, when Susan V. Booth takes over as Goodman Theatre's new artistic director, the first female in the theater's ...
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Spotlight: In Glenview, a fable unfolds, while in St. Charles, it's Shakespeare under the starsJul 22, 2022 6:00 am - Siblings in love Oil Lamp Theater presents “Failure: A Love Story,” Philip Dawkins' play-with-music about three sisters living above their family's clock repair sho...
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Mexican icon Frida Kahlo to be subject of new stage musicalJul 21, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Painters - mostly male - have long been the subject of stage shows, like ones about Mark Rothko, Georges Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucia...