Articles filed under Theater
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Lincolnshire theater launches reimagined ‘Shout!’Jun 26, 2011 12:00 am - “SHOUT! The Mod Musical” didn’t exactly have a felicitous reception the last time it played Chicago in 2008. This 2006 off-Broadway revue celebrating the girl-power son...
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Blues Brothers tribute heads to sweet home ChicagoJun 23, 2011 11:00 am - An iconic Chicago theater next month welcomes an iconic Chicago show when “The All New Original Tribute to the Blues Brothers” makes its U.S. debut at the Auditorium The...
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Batavia theater group presents 'Oklahoma!'Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am - Rising Star Theatreworks will present the iconic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!” at the historic Arcada Theatre in St. Charles today through Sunday, June 24-...
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Fox Valley Rep takes light-hearted journey 'Around the World'Jun 23, 2011 12:00 am - At a time when spectacle dominates stage and screen, Fox Valley Repertory's cleverly staged production of “Around the World in 80 Days” reminds audiences that the writte...
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Schaumburg man makes his Silk Road debut in David Henry Hwang’s ‘Yellow Face’Jun 22, 2011 1:00 am - Most actors want to “get it right.” That is to say, they want to uncover the truth about the characters they play and convey that to the audience. When that truth is th...
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Best bets: The Bard at the Globe (but close to home)Jun 21, 2011 11:00 pm - Big screen Bard Never had a chance to visit the celebrated recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London? Then see a production from the replica Elizabethan t...
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Stellar acting sells Drury Lane's 'Broadway Bound'Jun 19, 2011 11:00 pm - Audiences come to Drury Lane expecting musical spectacles. Not this time. The Oakbrook Terrace theater last set aside the orchestra in 2007 for Neil Simon's “The Odd Cou...
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Shakespeare festival actors give back to communityJun 19, 2011 6:00 am - BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — As part of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Santiago Sosa is preparing for four plays this summer. But his work won’t all be onstage. Like others i...
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'Wizard of Oz' opens Saturday night in SchaumburgJun 17, 2011 12:00 am - The greatest family musical of all time, “The Wizard of Oz,” based on the book by L. Frank Baum, is landing right in Schaumburg. H.O.T.T. Productions — Helping Others Th...
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On stage: what's new in theatersJun 16, 2011 12:00 am - Self discovery Waukegan native Michael Fosberg chronicles the search for his biological father in his one-man show “Incognito” for Clockwise Theatre. Fosberg, who grew u...