Articles filed under Theater
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Steel Beam's 'Fantasticks' hits the right notesSep 14, 2011 11:00 pm - Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy wins girl. While musicals have long embraced that formula, few do so with as much candor as “The Fantasticks,” the seminal, off-Broad...
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Lake County native juggles two jobs — and two roles — on the Chicago stageSep 14, 2011 6:00 am - Kirsten Fitzgerald is busy these days juggling two rather demanding jobs. She is the artistic director of one of the more noteworthy storefront theaters in Chicago, A Re...
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Theatre-Hikes take adventurous audiences 'Around the World'Sep 14, 2011 12:00 am - Morton Arboretum goers can expect a breezy forecast on weekends in September — a byproduct of the whirlwind of characters, costumes and continents associated with th...
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Former SNL star Nora Dunn tries on stage roleSep 13, 2011 6:00 am - Former “Saturday Night Live” star and native Chicagoan Nora Dunn is relishing her chance to appear in Nora and Delia Ephron's 2009 off-Broadway hit “Love, Loss, and What...
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Pint-size productions geared to childrenSep 11, 2011 6:15 am - Looking for ways to keep the kids entertained as the weather gets cooler? Skip the movies and catch some live theater at one of these local productions. “If You Give...
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What’s new on stageSep 11, 2011 12:00 am - Ÿ Previews continue for TimeLine Theatre’s Chicago area premiere of “The Pitman Painters,” Lee Blessing’s comedy about a group of miners in northern England whose dabbli...
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Broadway marks 9/11 anniversary with iconic songSep 09, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Joel Grey, Kara DioGuardi, Bebe Neuwirth, Ben Vereen and Brian Stokes Mitchell — along with sailors, nuns, drag queens, ballerinas and a Spider-Man — helped m...
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Marriott goes 'Blonde' for 2012 seasonSep 09, 2011 7:00 am - Marriott Theatre's 2012 season will mix crowd-pleasing favorites with a quirky new musical about, of all things, an aspiring comic book artist. The Lincolnshire theater ...
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Suburban native jumps at 'Crazy' role in ChicagoSep 08, 2011 5:45 am - Most people leave Woodfield Shopping Center with a sweater or a pair of shoes. Trevor Morgan went home with a career. Living in Des Plaines at the time, Morgan was only ...
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'American Idiot' among Broadway in Chicago's 2012 offeringsSep 07, 2011 11:00 pm - The ace in Broadway in Chicago's hole may well be the previously announced December 2012 arrival of “The Book of Mormon” — the nine-time Tony Award winning musical by “S...