Articles filed under Theater
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After cancer diagnosis, Broadway star fights backJan 07, 2014 4:45 am - NEW YORK — Valisia LeKae has a New Year's resolution that has nothing to do with weight loss, money or watching less TV. “I will be cancer-free in 2014,” she's vowed. T...
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'Phantom' tour brings actor back to ChicagoJan 05, 2014 4:30 am - Former Chicago actor Ben Jacoby, now appearing in the newly re-imagined national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster musical "The Phantom of the Opera," is quick t...
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Though ‘Spider-Man’ leaving Broadway, a part staysJan 04, 2014 5:00 am - NEW YORK — Before Spider-Man takes his final bow on Broadway this weekend, the show is swinging into history in another way. Producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”...
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Chicago native getting into the spirit of musical 'Ghost'Jan 03, 2014 4:30 am - Chicago native Carla R. Stewart has an ambition to appear onstage in three recent Broadway musicals that have been adapted from films that starred Whoopi Goldberg. Ste...
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Albright Theatre to hold auditions for Albee classicJan 02, 2014 9:21 am - Submitted by Albright Theatre Company The Albright Theatre Company will hold auditions for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5, and Monday, Jan...
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Theater events: Start 2014 laughing with Steve CochranJan 02, 2014 5:00 am - ‘Funny: 2014' Full-time WGN radio personality and part-time standup comedian Steve Cochran headlines the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's first comedy show of 20...
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New Year's Eve options still plentiful in suburbsDec 31, 2013 4:00 am - New Year's Eve options are plentiful for procrastinators
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Carly Rae Jepsen heads to Broadway next yearDec 29, 2013 6:26 pm - NEW YORK — “Call Me Maybe” singer Carly Rae Jepsen has had her calls returned by Broadway. Producers of “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” said Sunday that the Canadia...
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May Whitney pupils in ‘Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr.’Dec 27, 2013 1:37 pm - Students at Lake Zurich Unit District 95’s May Whitney Elementary School will be performing “Schoolhouse Rock Live Jr.” onstage next month. Fourth- and fifth-graders fro...
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The AP picks its Top 10 theater of 2013Dec 27, 2013 5:03 am - NEW YORK — This year’s best-in-theater list is overstuffed: There are revolting children, classic plays and circus acrobats. There are two knights playing two clowns and...