Articles filed under Short and Sweet Theater Reviews
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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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Sting gives Wayne native big break on 'Last Ship'Jun 06, 2014 5:30 am - Wayne native Martha McDonnell will miss her college graduation ceremonies later this month from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. The reason? Sting hired her to play...
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Sting musical launches in Chicago before cruising off to BroadwayJun 06, 2014 5:30 am - Growing up in the former shipbuilding town of Wallsend in Northern England, singer-songwriter Sting remembers being terrified by the enormous ships and the apocalyptic n...
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Short and Sweet critic Jennifer Irwin reviews 'Buyer and Cellar' with Diana MartinezMay 20, 2014 11:00 pm - Short and Sweet critic for the day, Jennifer Irwin of Palatine, shares her perspective on Broadway in Chicago's 'Buyer and Cellar' in an interview with Short and Sweet h...
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Short and Sweet critic Mike Latone reviews 'Motown the Musical' with Diana MartinezMay 20, 2014 11:00 pm - Short and Sweet critic for the day, Mike Latone of Barrington, draws upon his twenty-year career in the performing arts to review 'Motown the Musical' in an interview wi...
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'Buyer & Cellar' serves up delicious imagined Streisand dishMay 12, 2014 11:00 pm - What is truth and what is conjecture is delineated right upfront in Jonathan Tolins' hilarious 2013 one-man comedy "Buyer & Cellar," now on tour at Chicago's Broadway Pl...
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Short and Sweet critic Beth Kahan reviews 'Wizard of Oz' with Diana MartinezMay 09, 2014 1:01 am - The "Great and Powerful" "Wizard of Oz" is better than ever The updated new Andrew Lloyd-Weber version of the "Wizard of Oz" is brilliantly re-created for a modern day, ...
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Glorious songs overstuff 'Motown The Musical'May 08, 2014 11:00 pm - If the hit 2013 Broadway show "Motown The Musical" gets adapted for the screen, it had better be a miniseries. That's because "Motown The Musical," now launching a nati...
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Touring 'Wizard of Oz' wows - and Toto, tooMay 03, 2014 11:00 pm - While British and Canadian audiences were swept up in the reality TV shows that helped cast "The Wizard of Oz" tour now in Chicago, local audiences are less likely to gi...