Articles filed under Theater
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Steel Beam presenting musical 'Carol'Nov 27, 2008 10:00 pm - A musical 'Carol' Steel Beam Theatre founder and artistic director Donna Steele directs the company's holiday offering, composer Alan Menken and lyricist Lynn Ahrens' m...
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Background helps Libertyville High grad go BlueNov 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Tim Heck, 26, belongs to an elite group, a small band of highly skilled performers who nightly paint themselves a primary color and then appear in a highly popular show ...
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'Grey Gardens' gives a sympathetic glimpse of fading aristocratsNov 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Northlight Theatre likes to save the best for last. Having closed 2007 on a high note with its award-winning tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Northlight remains true to form,...
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What? A ballet in a bookstore?Nov 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Barrington Youth Dance Ensemble members will offer dancing lessons to kids and will perform excerpts from "The Nutcracker" holiday ballet in the Barnes and Noble booksto...
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Go guideNov 22, 2008 10:00 pm - Freebie Learn about the history of candy in the 1890s during the "Holiday Candy" program. Guests can watch the skills involved in making candy - from boiling the su...
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'Spamalot' moves up closing on BroadwayNov 21, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK _ Some Broadway shows can't wait to say goodbye. "Monty Python's Spamalot" will now close Jan. 11 -- a week earlier than the musical announced last month. The ...
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Goodman's 'Ruined' passionate, powerful but ultimately falls shortNov 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Were men subject to the atrocities inflicted upon women in places like Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of rape and ...
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Dark take on Dickens by 'CSI' star from suburbsNov 20, 2008 10:00 pm - No theatrical fireworks accompanied William Petersen's homecoming. The Evanston-born, Chicago-seasoned actor's return to the city where he began his career wasn't marke...
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Enjoy Shakespeare, Widmark for freeNov 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Free 'As You Like It' See "As You Like It," William Shakespeare's romantic comedy about a woman who flees from her corrupt uncle's court to find love in the forest of Ar...
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Home turf's a kick for RocketteNov 19, 2008 10:00 pm - How do you get to Radio City Music Hall? If you are Kristina Larson, one of the Rockettes in this year's edition of "The Radio City Christmas Spectacular Starring the Ro...