Articles filed under Theater
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Rockettes in step with the holidays in RosemontNov 27, 2008 10:00 pm - The well-dressed families might riot if the Rockettes skipped "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." And who could blame them? The number has been in "The Radio City Chri...
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Steel Beam presenting musical 'Carol'Nov 27, 2008 10:00 pm - A musical 'Carol' Steel Beam Theatre founder and artistic director Donna Steele directs the company's holiday offering, composer Alan Menken and lyricist Lynn Ahrens' m...
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Background helps Libertyville High grad go BlueNov 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Tim Heck, 26, belongs to an elite group, a small band of highly skilled performers who nightly paint themselves a primary color and then appear in a highly popular show ...
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'Grey Gardens' gives a sympathetic glimpse of fading aristocratsNov 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Northlight Theatre likes to save the best for last. Having closed 2007 on a high note with its award-winning tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Northlight remains true to form,...
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What? A ballet in a bookstore?Nov 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Barrington Youth Dance Ensemble members will offer dancing lessons to kids and will perform excerpts from "The Nutcracker" holiday ballet in the Barnes and Noble booksto...
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Go guideNov 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Freebie Learn about the history of candy in the 1890s during the "Holiday Candy" program. Guests can watch the skills involved in making candy - from boiling the su...
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'Spamalot' moves up closing on BroadwayNov 21, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK _ Some Broadway shows can't wait to say goodbye. "Monty Python's Spamalot" will now close Jan. 11 -- a week earlier than the musical announced last month. The ...
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Goodman's 'Ruined' passionate, powerful but ultimately falls shortNov 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Were men subject to the atrocities inflicted upon women in places like Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of rape and ...
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Dark take on Dickens by 'CSI' star from suburbsNov 20, 2008 10:00 pm - No theatrical fireworks accompanied William Petersen's homecoming. The Evanston-born, Chicago-seasoned actor's return to the city where he began his career wasn't marke...
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Enjoy Shakespeare, Widmark for freeNov 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Free 'As You Like It' See "As You Like It," William Shakespeare's romantic comedy about a woman who flees from her corrupt uncle's court to find love in the forest of Ar...