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Best bets: Free Mavis Staples show, dinos in downtown Wheaton, 'Flying Dutchman' at Lyric

By Barbara Vitello & Brian Shamie
Sep 21, 2023 7:04 AM - Mavis Staples will close out Saturday's Chicago Live acts with a free show at Navy Pier, Elgin Short Film Festival comes to the Hemmens, "The Flying Dutchman" opens at the Lyric and life-size animatronic dinosaurs take over downtown Wheaton.
Metropolis' funny, spirited 'Addams Family' revival among its best

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 21, 2023 11:54 AM - Metropolis Performing Arts Centre's revival of the revised, retooled "The Addams Family" boasts one of the best ensembles to grace the Arlington Heights stage.
Masterful 'Hamilton' returns for extended run at Chicago's Nederlander Theatre

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 15, 2023 2:36 PM - Exhilarating as ever. After more than three years, "Hamilton," the hip-hop musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, makes its long-awaited return to Chicago.
Spotlight: 'Hamilton' returns, 'Lehman Trilogy' premieres, Chicago celebrates playwright Pearl Cleage

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 14, 2023 5:39 PM - In the suburbs, Citadel stages a classic mystery and Metropolis welcome the Addams Family. In the city, "Hamilton" returns for an extended run, TimeLine and Broadway stage "Lehman Trilogy's" regional premiere and the city celebrates playwright Pearl Cleage.
Funny shtick, random acts of kindness underscore Paramount's 'Little Shop of Horrors'

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 14, 2023 11:27 AM - Director Landree Fleming promised lots of laughs in Paramount Theatre's "Little Shop of Horrors." And the Aurora theater delivers in its revival of the comically macabre musical.
Joyful performances of Johnny Cash's greatest hits buoy Drury Lane's 'Ring of Fire'

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 8, 2023 4:02 PM - Drury Lane Theatre's revival of "Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash" benefits from first-rate performances by the ensemble featuring Ron E. Rains and Michael Potter as the legendary man in black
30 years later, West Chicago actress and Chicago director revisit 'A View From the Bridge' at Shattered Globe

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 7, 2023 2:12 PM - West Chicago actress Eileen Niccolai says she was a bit young to play Beatrice in Shattered Globe Theatre's 1993 revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge." Reprising the role now under original director Lou Contey, she says 30 years of life experience has given her needed insight.
Spotlight: Ronnie Marmo returns as Lenny Bruce at the North Shore Center

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 6, 2023 6:00 AM - Theo Ubique previews a new all-Asian musical; writer/performer Ronnie Marmo returns in his solo show celebrating comedian Lenny Bruce; and Babes With Blades puts a contemporary spin on a 17th-century tragedy in "The Duchess of Malfi," this week in Chicago-area theater.
'A beautiful person inside and out': GoFundMe set up for South Elgin High student killed in crash

By Barbara Vitello
Sep 3, 2023 8:24 AM - A GoFundMe fundraiser has been set up to help pay for funeral expenses for 17-year-old Kamorra Campbell, one of two South Elgin High School students killed in a crash Thursday in Bartlett.
What a homecoming: Broadway vet Lucia Spina dazzles in Marriott's outstanding 'Gypsy'

By Barbara Vitello
Aug 31, 2023 1:06 PM - Broadway veteran Lucia Spina has a mighty voice, but it's her exceptional acting, and that of co-stars Lauren Maria Medina and Nathaniel Stampley, that powers Marriott Theatre's excellent revival of "Gypsy."

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