Articles filed under Theater
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Orchestra makes Lyric's 'My Fair Lady' an experience like no otherMay 03, 2017 6:00 am - The Lyric Opera of Chicago might well have spoiled musicals for theater fans when it began giving beloved Broadway tuners the opera house treatment five years ago as par...
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Hear the story of 'The Other Mozart,' Amadeus' sister and fellow prodigyMay 02, 2017 11:00 pm - Fermilab Arts & Lecture Series will present "The Other Mozart" at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 13, at Fermilab's Ramsey Auditorium, off Pine Street in Batavia. Tickets are $25 o...
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Immanuel School to put on 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'May 01, 2017 11:00 pm - Immanuel Lutheran School in Batavia presents an amateur production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," with music by Andrew Lloyd Weber and lyrics by Tim ...
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'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' leads Tony nodsMay 01, 2017 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," a sung-through musical that dramatizes a 70-page melodrama at the center of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," earned...
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NWSRA Broadway Buddies team to to stage 'Grease!'May 01, 2017 11:00 am - An uplifting act of creative partnership will be on display as the T-Birds and Pink Ladies reunite in "Grease, a Review," at the Buffalo Grove Community Arts Center at 7...
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Naperville's BrightSide Theatre announces 2017-2018 seasonMay 01, 2017 1:00 am - Naperville's BrightSide Theatre announced its seventh season featuring works adapted to the stage from hit films. "The 39 Steps," a comedic whodunit inspired by Alfred H...
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Drury Lane 'Chicago' makes media a target in flashy productionApr 29, 2017 1:00 am - The hit musical “Chicago” famously uses vaudeville acts to take aim at two manipulative “murderesses” and their rivalry to become showbiz celebrities. But it's the media...
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Janus artistic director to attend masterclasses at Shakespeare's Globe TheatreApr 27, 2017 11:00 pm - Janus Theatre artistic director Sean Hargadon will travel overseas next month to the Directing Studio at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to attend a series of directing mast...
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater charmingly adapts Oscar-winning comedyApr 27, 2017 6:00 am - Whenever some enterprising producer floats the idea of adapting a hit film to the stage, I find myself pondering the same question. What did the original leave unsaid th...
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See 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in AntiochApr 27, 2017 1:00 am - "To Kill a Mockingbird," adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning book by Harper Lee, opens at PM&L Theatre, 877 Main St. in Antioch, on Friday, May 19 and will run Frida...