Articles filed under Theater
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Spotlight: Marriott Theatre honors Bing Crosby, American Blues stages Stephen King’s ‘Misery’Sep 17, 2024 8:42 am - Marriott Theatre hosts a Bing Crosby tribute, American Blues Theater presents “Misery,” Metropolis Performing Arts Centre revives Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” and “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” returns to the CIBC Theatre.
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Magical Starlight Theatre to host auditions for ‘Cinderella’ Oct. 5-6Sep 16, 2024 5:41 pm - Magical Starlight Theatre, a Naperville Park District program, is holding auditions for its January production of “Cinderella” on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5-6.
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Tennessee Playwrights Studio presents ‘That Woman — The Monologue Show’ at the Elgin Fringe FestSep 13, 2024 10:06 pm - On Sept. 26-29, Tennessee Playwrights Studio will be bringing its 60-minute festival version of “That Woman — The Monologue Show” to the Elgin Fringe Festival with five local Chicago-area actors.
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Marriott Theatre announces landmark anniversary seasonSep 13, 2024 5:04 pm - Marriott Theatre announced its 2025 season. Marking the Lincolnshire theater’s 50th anniversary will include a world premiere, as well as revivals of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” the film-inspired “Catch Me if You Can,” and the infrequently staged “Titanic the Musical.”
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GreenMan Theatre opens its 21st season with ‘Miss Holmes,’ a Sherlockian mysterySep 11, 2024 10:12 pm - Rehearsals are in full swing for GreenMan Theatre’s production of “Miss Holmes,” the opening main stage show of its 21st season. The play is based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and unfolds amid the stodgy Victorian era in 1881.
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‘Investing in ourselves’: Aurora backs $13.8 million in bonds to support downtown theatersSep 11, 2024 8:34 pm - Aurora city council approved the first of a three-phase project to shore up the Aurora Civic Center Authority finances.
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GreenMan Theatre to host auditions for ‘The Cover of Life’Sep 11, 2024 8:12 pm - Interested in a role in an upcoming production of GreenMan Theatre Troupe’s “The Cover of Life” by playwright R.T. Robinson?
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Laugh and learn: Timing’s right for BTE’s revival of political satire ‘The Outsider’Sep 11, 2024 6:15 pm - Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s brisk revival of “The Outsider,” Paul Slade Smith’s 2015 satire on politics, comes at just the right time.
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Regal revival: Uniformly excellent acting animates Drury Lane’s ‘The Audience’Sep 07, 2024 3:54 pm - The supremely talented Janet Ulrich Brooks, who played Queen Elizabeth seven years ago in a Chicago production of “The Audience,” revisits the role in Drury Lane Theatre’s revival of “The Audience” by Peter Morgan.
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Wego Drama to go ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ Sept. 13-14Sep 06, 2024 6:52 pm - Wego Drama at West Chicago Community High School continues their 2024-25 theatrical season with the play “Alice in Wonderland: Down the Rabbit Hole.”