Articles filed under Theater
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‘Godspell’ makes most of intimate setting of Geneva Underground PlayhouseMar 24, 2011 12:00 am - “Godspell” was a big off-Broadway hit in the early 1970s and made just as big of a splash when it debuted on Broadway in June 1976 at the Broadhurst Theater. The use of ...
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Arts agenda: Auditions March 26 and beyondMar 23, 2011 11:00 pm - • Elgin OPERA has auditions for the Young Artist Program of the Third Community Outreach Summer Music Festival on Saturday, March 26. Auditions are by invitation only an...
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Northlight stages faithful 'Sense & Sensibility'Mar 23, 2011 11:00 pm - It is a literary truth universally acknowledged that an unmarried Jane Austen protagonist of charm, intellect and limited means must be in want of a husband. It is also ...
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Tony Award-winning playwright Lanford Wilson diesMar 23, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright of such plays as “The Hot L Baltimore,” “Burn This,” “Fifth of July” and “Talley's Folly,” has died. He ...
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Another injury rocks 'Spider-Man' musicalMar 22, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Is this the curse of the Spider-Woman? T.V. Carpio, who stepped in to replace another actress injured in Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has now h...
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Theater events: 'Give a Mouse' at ParamountMar 22, 2011 11:00 pm - Children's story Eight children's stories make up TheatreworksUSA's musical revue “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie & Other Story Books,” which comes to Aurora's Paramo...
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Spring brings robot opera, offbeat local theater lineupMar 22, 2011 11:00 pm - The spring theater season is up and running, with highly anticipated revivals of classics and world premieres presented on local stages. But mixed in with more tradition...
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Best bets: Get moving with Imagination MoversMar 22, 2011 11:00 pm - Rock n' overalls Kids and parents can rock out when Playhouse Disney celebrity band Imagination Movers brings its “In a Big Warehouse” Tour this Saturday to the Ros...
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Tony-nominated actress Helen Stenborg dies at 86Mar 22, 2011 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Helen Stenborg, a Tony-nominated stage, film and TV actress who was the wife of the late Tony Award-winning actor Barnard Hughes and mother of the Tony Award...
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Young actors audition for ‘Hobbit’Mar 19, 2011 12:00 am - Young actors are being sought for the play based on the J.R.R. Tolkien classic, “The Hobbit.” Auditions will be from 4-7 p.m. Monday, March 21 at the Improv Playhouse Bl...