Articles filed under Theater
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Glenview's Oil Lamp Theater records one-woman comedy 'Bad Dates' for drive-in, online viewingAug 05, 2020 6:00 am - Like many theater-makers whose stages went dark this spring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Oil Lamp Theater executive director Jay Pastucha and associate artistic...
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No Shakespeare in the park this summer? 12 adaptations to stream insteadJul 30, 2020 11:00 pm - If you are missing Shakespeare in the park this summer, you can always turn to the many film adaptations of his work. William Shakespeare's plays have been adapted hundr...
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Spotlight: Theater collaborations make new digital premieres possibleJul 30, 2020 11:00 pm - Trap Door online Chicago's Trap Door Theatre, in association with its sister company Trap Door International in Barcelona, Spain, presents a digital production of “Alas”...
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Best Bets: Scottish Festival & Highland Games moves onlineJul 27, 2020 11:00 pm - Top pick Highlanders online Watch bagpipers, dancers and “heavy sports” competitors from the safety of your home via the 2020 Virtual Scottish Festival & Highland Games ...
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COD College Theater to hold virtual auditions for fall productionsJul 26, 2020 11:00 pm - General auditions for College of DuPage College Theater's fall productions of “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later” and “A Christmas Carol” will be held by virtual subm...
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Musical tribute to Judy & Liza canceledJul 26, 2020 11:00 pm - The resumption of live theater in Chicago in the form of a Judy Garland/Liza Minnelli revue was short-lived. "Judy & Liza – Once in a Lifetime: The London Palladium Con...
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Chicago's Manual Cinema marks 10 years of theatrical storytelling with online 'Retrospectacular!'Jul 26, 2020 7:00 am - If asked to define their ensemble's mission and aesthetic, the five co-founders/co-artistic directors of Manual Cinema would not come up with an identical response. “You...
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AP PHOTOS: Ancient Greek theaters return to life in pandemicJul 25, 2020 7:00 am - EPIDAURUS, Greece (AP) - Lights! Crickets. Birds. Bats. Action! The ancient theater of Epidaurus, renowned for its acoustics, has reopened for a limited number of open-...
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Albright Community Theatre stage goes dark until 2021Jul 25, 2020 7:00 am - The show must go on. Until it shouldn't. Area community theaters are finding the coronavirus pandemic to be a foe that shatters the notion that actors, directors and sta...
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First Folio postpones fall production until October 2021Jul 23, 2020 11:00 pm - First Folio Theatre in Oak Brook announced Thursday its season opening production “The Jigsaw Bride: A Frankenstein Story,” by ensemble member Joseph Zettelmaier, will b...