Articles filed under Theater
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Word Players issues casting call for 'Chatting With the Tea Party'Sep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - The Social Justice Team of Tree of Life Unitarian Universalist Congregation in McHenry is launching a new Arts in Resistance project - Word Players, a readers' theater c...
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He done them wrong Village Theatre Guild presents 'Communicating Doors'Sep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - For three wronged women, rolling back the clock becomes a matter of life and death in the Village Theatre Guild's production of Alan Ayckbourn's comedy "Communicating Do...
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'Pretty Woman' musical set to premiere in Chicago in MarchSep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - "Pretty Woman: The Musical," adapted from the hit 1990 romantic comedy by writer/director Garry Marshall, will premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre next March in advan...
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How Lombard native kills it during death scene onstageSep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - By Dann Gire dgire@dailyherald.com Actress Moira Begale dies so realistically in WildClaw Theatre's violent Chicago production of "Night in Alachua County" that we asked...
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Kirk Players opens 52nd season with Holmesian thrillerSep 24, 2017 11:00 pm - Kirk Players will open its 52nd season with "Postmortem" by Ken Ludwig, a gripping mystery thriller. Suspense abounds with séances, shots in the dark, knives and firearm...
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First Chicago International Latino Theater Fest highlights visiting, local companiesSep 24, 2017 7:00 am - The new Chicago International Latino Theater Festival carries the theme “Destinos” (“Destinations”). It's apt since the monthlong festival is spread out among five diffe...
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5 things to do in the suburbs this weekendSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - The calendar says fall; the weather screams summer. But regardless of whether you want to check out an outdoor fest or settle in somewhere with the air conditioner blast...
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'Tuesdays with Morrie' canceled at Glen Ellyn's McAninchSep 22, 2017 1:00 am - The McAninch Arts Center presentation of the play "Tuesdays with Morrie" on Saturday, Sept. 30, has been canceled. Jamie Farr ("M*A*S*H") was to have starred in the tou...
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Inspired, visceral 'View From the Bridge' opens Goodman Theatre's seasonSep 21, 2017 11:30 am - The final moments of Belgian director Ivo van Hove's meticulously minimalist revival of “A View From the Bridge” depict despair so starkly, so viscerally it almost takes...
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Paramount's 'Million Dollar Quartet' captures golden moment in music historySep 20, 2017 7:00 am - I went to the Paramount Theatre in Aurora Saturday to see a musical, and a concert broke out. Or maybe it was the other way around. But no matter how you characterize it...