Articles filed under Theater
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'Oliver!' opens Thursday at St. James in Arlington Hts.Jul 13, 2014 11:00 pm - What goes around, comes around for Peter Buckley of Arlington Heights - and St. James Theatre Productions. More than 40 years after Buckley starred as an 11-year old in ...
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'Kinky Boots' star prepares for high-kicking tourJul 11, 2014 5:00 am - Kyle Taylor Parker is going from backup dancer to leading man - but staying in 6-inch heels. The performer who has been in "Kinky Boots" since it made its debut in Chic...
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Theater events: Lounge Devils, "Little Red" and a cancer fund-raiserJul 11, 2014 5:00 am - Fox Valley Rep fundraiser Pheasant Run Resort hosts its second annual “All About the Girls” fundraiser to benefit Fox Valley Repertory in St. Charles and the Living...
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Waukegan's Clockwise Theatre announces new seasonJul 10, 2014 1:01 am - Season tickets are now on sale for Clockwise Theatre's 2014-15 season. Clockwise, a Waukegan-based company devoted to presenting works by and about Midwesterners, recent...
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A-list creative team, top-notch performers make for stellar 'Brigadoon'Jul 09, 2014 5:00 am - It took about a decade for director/choreographer Rachel Rockwell to make her Goodman Theatre directorial debut. I don't expect she'll have to wait long for another invi...
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Goodman extends magical 'Brigadoon'Jul 07, 2014 1:01 am - Goodman Theatre has, for a second time, extended its spirited, emotionally charged revival of "Brigadoon." A 1947 musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, it'...
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'Cats' gets rap twist for West End revivalJul 06, 2014 11:00 pm - LONDON - "Cats" is back - and now one of the felines raps. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical returns to London's West End in December in a revamped production with a hip-hop...
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Award-winning playwright meets with Harper College theater studentsJul 06, 2014 11:00 pm - Harper College welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Alfred Uhry who spoke at the college June 26. Uhry told the audience, gathered at the Performing Arts Center, ...
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Weekend picks: Fests, bands and Paul ReiserJul 05, 2014 6:00 am - Mad about him: Famed for his hit NBC sitcom “Mad About You” and appearing in the sci-fi thriller “Aliens,” comedian Paul Reiser returns this Saturday to do standup c...
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Theater events: 'Merry Wives' opening at First FolioJul 03, 2014 6:15 am - ‘Wives' in Oak Brook Nearly penniless, Sir John Falstaff decides to court a pair of wealthy married women who turn the tables on the philandering knight in “The Merry W...