Articles filed under Theater
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Best Bets: Barricade Boys and YAMATO drummers on stage at the MACFeb 17, 2025 6:25 pm - The MAC welcomes The Barricade Boys and YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan, the stars of “Queer Eye” share backstage tales at the Chicago Theatre and singer-actress Alexis J. Roston channels jazz great Ella Fitzgerald at the Metropolis.
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Northbrook Theatre for Young Audiences puts on ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ through Feb. 22Feb 13, 2025 1:24 pm - Northbrook Theatre's new children's production "Dragons Love Tacos" tells the chaotic story of what happens when tacos served to dragons contain spicy salsa.
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Worth the wait: Lookingglass returns with delightful ‘Circus Quixote’Feb 12, 2025 6:49 pm - A hearty welcome back to Lookingglass Theatre Company, which returns after a 19-month hiatus with “Circus Quixote,” a thoroughly entertaining adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ adventure tale “Don Quixote.”
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Spotlight: Metropolis stages concert version of ‘Mary Poppins’Feb 12, 2025 9:21 am - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre stages a concert version of “Mary Poppins;” the stage version of “Clue” opens at the CIBC Theatre; Citadel Theatre revives Lauren Gunderson’s teen two-hander “I and You” this week in Chicago area theater.
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Things to do Feb. 14-20: Chicago Auto Show, Joffrey Ballet and moreFeb 11, 2025 11:46 am - Mark your calendar for Chicago Auto Show, the Joffrey Ballet and more happening this week.
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Property-line dispute sparks neighbors’ border war in BTE’s first-rate ‘Native Gardens’Feb 10, 2025 2:08 pm - Was the speaker in the Robert Frost poem “Mending Wall” right? Do good fences make good neighbors? Check out Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s brisk, well-acted revival of “Native Gardens” and find out.
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‘Fool for Love’ triumphantly reteams Steppenwolf with playwright Sam ShepardFeb 10, 2025 1:19 pm - Sam Shepard’s thrilling “Fool for Love” is more than just any old spat between former lovers. It taps into all kinds of mythic tropes, which is evident in director Jeremy Herrin’s visceral take, now being revived for the first time in four decades by Steppenwolf Theatre.
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Maine East students to bring the magical musical ‘Matilda’ to the stageFeb 07, 2025 2:21 pm - Maine East is putting on “Matilda the Musical” with a company of 170 students, including a children’s choir. The production includes a behind-the-scenes event with chocolate cupcakes.
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Drury Lane revives Carole King bio-tunerFeb 07, 2025 1:42 pm - The bio-tuner’s terrific score propels Drury Lane Theatre’s revival of “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”
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Need a chuckle? ‘Broadway Laughs’ to bring funny songs to Schaumburg’s Prairie CenterFeb 05, 2025 12:39 pm - A revue of the funniest musical comedy numbers to hit the stage will be performed in “Broadway Laughs” Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7-8, at Schaumburg’s Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts, 201 Schaumburg Court, Schaumburg.