Articles filed under Theater
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Here's the list of 2019 Jeff Award winnersOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - The following is a list of 2019 equity Jeff Award recipients Production play - Large: "Downstate," Steppenwolf Theatre Company Production play - Mid-size: "Frankenstein,...
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Improv Playhouse to perform 'Dracula' in radio show formatOct 20, 2019 11:00 pm - Improv Playhouse will be performing Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula" as a staged radio drama using the original 1938 Orson Welles' script Friday and Saturday, Oct. ...
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Female artists dominate, but suburban theaters also honored at 51st Jeff AwardsOct 20, 2019 11:00 pm - Female theater artists - including Drury Lane, Marriott, Northlight and Paramount theater veterans E. Faye Butler, Barbara E. Robertson and Donica Lynn - prevailed in th...
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Youth theater group to present 'Seussical the Musical' in Des PlainesOct 19, 2019 7:15 am - Join The Cat in the Hat on a whimsical journey from the Jungle of Nool, to Circus McGurkus, to the tiny land of Who as he tells of the adventures of Horton the Elephant,...
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Ravinia's leader stepping down after 2020 seasonOct 19, 2019 1:00 am - Welz Kauffman, the Ravinia Festival president and CEO who has helmed the world-renowned music behemoth in Highland Park for nearly two decades, will be stepping down fro...
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On stage: First Floor stages Chicago premiere of 'Sugar in Our Wounds'Oct 18, 2019 6:00 am - • While the Civil War rages, a young slave and his plantation family take in a stranger, an act that sparks an unexpected romance in "Sugar in Our Wounds" by Donja R. Lo...
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Downers Grove actress sends up '80s sitcom in Handbag's 'Facts of Life'Oct 18, 2019 6:00 am - In 2015, aspiring actress Alexa Castelvecchi, then a student at Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts, wasn't doing much acting. "I had not been cast...
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Mundelein High's Meier rewarded for building love of theater, student talentOct 17, 2019 9:00 am - Jonathan Meier's career didn't always revolve around a stage. After earning his bachelor's degree in speech and theater education, the St. Louis native came to Chicago ...
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Meet the playwright behind a 'deeply raw space' on BroadwayOct 15, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Playwright Jeremy O. Harris has a rule that he doesn't cry in public. He broke that rule the night Rihanna attended his Broadway debut. Harris uses the s...
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Spotlight: Billy Gardell does standup at the Raue, Janus stages unrehearsed 'Macbeth'Oct 14, 2019 11:00 pm - Billy Gardell on stage Comedian/actor Billy Gardell, co-star of the new CBS sitcom “Bob Hearts Abishola,” headlines the Raue Center for the first time where he'll share ...