Articles filed under Theater
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Some suburban theaters soar, but others take a final bowDec 26, 2014 4:30 am - During a year in which Paramount Theatre in Aurora's profile continued to soar in its first Jeff Award eligible season and Writers Theatre in Glencoe broke ground on wha...
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Elgin Theatre Company to present "Leading Ladies"Dec 25, 2014 10:00 pm - The Elgin Theatre Company will present "Leading Ladies," a comedy by Ken Ludwig, on Jan. 9-25, at Kimball Street Theater, at Kimball Street and Dundee Avenue in Elgin. T...
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Music director from Arlington Heights on Broadway this holidayDec 23, 2014 4:00 am - Broadway doesn't really take a Christmas break, so neither does music director and conductor James Moore, a native of Arlington Heights. Instead of celebrating in the s...
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Martha Plimpton: 'I don't want to be just famous'Dec 22, 2014 5:01 am - NEW YORK - To the audience watching the opening act of "A Delicate Balance" on Broadway, a gentle word of warning: Martha Plimpton is listening to you. The actress is ba...
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It's time to put a bullet in MetropolisDec 22, 2014 4:01 am - Does it take $24,000 for this village to realize that it has a white elephant on its hands? That amount can be added to the thousands already squandered feeding this dea...
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NYC theater plans live reading of 'The Interview'Dec 21, 2014 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - Sony may have scrapped the release of the movie "The Interview," but it will be in at least at one theater in New York City - onstage, that is. Treehouse ...
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Theater events: Light Opera Works updates 'Widow'Dec 19, 2014 6:00 am - LOW's ‘Merry Widow' Stacey Tappan stars as Hanna Glawari in Light Opera Works' production of the Franz Lehar opera “The Merry Widow.” Reprising the role she played ...
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With 'Diner,' Sheryl Crow segues to the stageDec 19, 2014 5:01 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When Gene Kelly gazed into the camera, 9-year-old Sheryl Crow of Kennett, Missouri, imagined he was getting ready to sing just for her. "I loved him s...
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Bold, engaging 'Airline Highway' a show worth seeingDec 19, 2014 5:00 am - If there is an heir apparent to the late Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled society's fringe dwellers in such plays as “Balm in Gilead”...
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Make-A-Wish puts Washington teen on Chicago stageDec 19, 2014 12:01 am - Associated Press CHICAGO - An 18-year-old girl from Washington state is getting the chance to live one of her dreams by acting in a production of "A Christmas Carol." T...