Articles filed under Theater
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Steppenwolf announces expansion, new leadershipOct 02, 2014 3:08 pm - Steppenwolf Theatre announced on Thursday plans to expand its Halsted Street home. To that end, the acclaimed Chicago theater company is attempting to raise $55 million ...
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Metropolis gets funding to stay openOct 02, 2014 1:00 am - Arlington Heights will continue to fund the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre for the rest of the fiscal year, with a few strings attached. After four hours of debate, t...
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Actress Mia Farrow reveals her motto: 'I'm trying'Oct 01, 2014 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Acting on Broadway is hardly a vacation, but if you're Mia Farrow, it just might be. Her day job these days, after all, is speaking out about genocide and atr...
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Weekend picks: Local 'Idol' Lee DeWyze plays acoustic showSep 30, 2014 4:30 pm - Ex-'Idol' returns Mount Prospect native Lee DeWyze, who was crowned (with much fanfare) the Season Nine winner of “American Idol” in 2010, has launched a new phase ...
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Village Theatre Guild to stage 'Grace & Glorie'Sep 29, 2014 11:00 pm - Glen Ellyn's Village Theatre Guild will present the comedy/drama "Grace & Glorie" weekends, Oct. 17 to Nov. 8, at its stage near the northwest corner of Park Boulevard a...
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'Evil Dead' musical bedeviled by clichés, tired jokesSep 28, 2014 6:30 am - A fan-favorite moment of the "Evil Dead" series of comic horror films happens after the main character, Ash, equips himself with a chain-saw to battle a nasty group of d...
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Batavia play focuses on Mary Todd Lincoln's life after the White HouseSep 27, 2014 8:01 am - The life of Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of President Abraham Lincoln, is the subject of an original work by Batavia playwright Donna Latham. "The Haunted Widow Lincoln," La...
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Brilliant new biography of Tennessee WilliamsSep 27, 2014 6:30 am - When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was place...
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Theater events: The Sweat Girls turn 21Sep 26, 2014 6:15 am - Koy at the Improv Comedian Jo Koy, a frequent panelist on “Chelsea Lately,” which ended its seven-year run on E! last month, headlines the Chicago Improv in Schaumb...
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'Native Son' a remarkable adaptation of a classicSep 26, 2014 5:15 am - “Native Son” is as uncompromising onstage as it is on the page. Nambi E. Kelley gets everything right in her astutely crafted adaptation of Richard Wright's seminal 194...