Articles filed under Theater
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Suburban church drama director converts to Chicago stageFeb 15, 2012 5:00 am - Rod Armentrout studied theater in college, but for much of the last two decades his stage work was limited to Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington. "They i...
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Audiences won’t nod off at ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’Feb 14, 2012 11:00 pm - ECC Musical Theatre production of comedy-musical show within a show aims to win over even those who don’t like musicals
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The music never stops in CYT Aurora’s ‘Joseph’Feb 14, 2012 11:00 pm - The 100-plus cast members of Christian Youth Theater Aurora’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” can only benefit from the experience their director brings t...
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Local theater: Steel Beam presents 'Glass Menagerie'Feb 14, 2012 12:00 pm - ‘Glass Menagerie' at Steel Beam Steel Beam Theatre stages Tennessee Williams' “The Glass Menagerie.” An elegiac ode to unrealized aspirations, the play premiered in 1944...
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Rosemont sells naming rights for $1.5 millionFeb 13, 2012 11:00 pm - The Rosemont Theatre name is no more. The corporate naming rights for the theater have been sold to Akoo International Inc., a Rosemont-based global media company known ...
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Despite dramatic creaks, Lyric's 'Show Boat' proves see-worthyFeb 12, 2012 11:00 pm - Opera purists may grumble, but it makes plenty of sense for the Lyric Opera of Chicago to tackle a massive Broadway musical like "Show Boat." Showman Florenz Ziegfeld ...
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Disappointing 'Hesperia' examines sex and the search for salvationFeb 10, 2012 5:00 am - Except for politics, few subjects spark as passionate a response as sex and religion. Make that porn-film sex and fundamentalist religion — the twin topics that drive “H...
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Schaumburg High performs Oscar Wilde classic, ‘Earnest’Feb 09, 2012 11:00 pm - Two performances remain of the Oscar Wilde classic, “The Importance of Being Earnest” on Saturday, Feb. 11 at Schaumburg High School. The drawing room comedy will be per...
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Green Day's 'American Idiot' is loud, aggressive and irresistibleFeb 09, 2012 10:00 pm - If "American Idiot" is too loud, you're too old. The galvanizing punk rock musical adapted from Green Day's hit 2004 album makes that clear from the start, which deliv...
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CYT Kane County brings “Annie Jr.” to the HemmensFeb 08, 2012 11:00 pm - Nearly 100 children will have roles in Christian Youth Theater of Kane County's production of “Annie Jr.” at the Hemmens this weekend. The show opened Thursday. Remainin...