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Idina Menzel got quite the delightful surprise, when she invited South Sider Ariana Burks, 15, to join her on stage Sunday night to sing along with the Tony winner's rendition of "Take Me or…
Hershey Felder, that master of all theatrical trades (actor, director, pianist, composer, writer, designer, producer), ...
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Light Opera Works' fine revival of the 1949 classic "South Pacific" - a late summer treat at Evanston's Cahn Auditorium - is a reminder of just how powerfully Rodgers and Hammersetin address…
Chicago actor-rapper Common, already busy this year with today’s 100,000 Opportunities Initiative job fair at ...
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The Chicago Air and Water Show will be filling the skies along the lakefront on Saturday ...
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Just because David Koechner's "BeerSharkMice" improv shows are sold out at the IO Theatre this weekend, fans of the veteran comedian and actor " who don't have tickets " should know Koechner…
It was old home week for Salt-N-Pepa and Spinderella dining at Mr. Brown's Lounge in the Loop -- especially for Jamaican native Pepa, as the group lunched on chef Chris Douglas' authentic Ja…
Broadway in Chicago today announced actor/producer David Arquette (“Scream,” “Celebrity Name Game”), will star as ...
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The director of "We Gotta Bingo," an interactive show that opened last week in Chicago, is fighting for his life, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis reports.
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The Defiant Thomas Brothers, a Chicago sketch-comedy duo who made a mark on the local ...
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Pride Films & Plays' impressive Chicago premiere of "The Boy from Oz" - the jukebox musical about the life of Peter Allen, the Australian-born performer, songwriter and sexual adventure…
Wondrous. Hypnotic. An unparalleled flight of the imagination, and a glorious exploration of the physical limits of the human body. Cirque du Soleil's "Kurios - Cabinet of Curiosities," the …
The lineup for Broadway in Chicago's free preview of the season in Millennium Park has been announced.
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1. POSITIVELY SMASHING The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson bring their The End of Times ...
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National touring productions of two big musicals - "42nd Street" and "Newsies" - will be heading to Chicago next year courtesy of Broadway in Chicago.
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Plays by Samuel D. Hunter and John Van Druten, plus the Chicago debut of the award-winning "Bat Boy:The Musical" are on the docket for Griffin Theatre's 2015-2016 season.
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Chicago's public sculptures lead difficult lives. Buffeted by snowstorms and freezing temperatures, relentlessly exposed to every shrill siren, dumped on by waves of pigeons, and surrounded …
There might be an audience, somewhere out there in Chicagoland, for "We Gotta Bingo," the interactive "entertainment" that has set up shop in the new Chicago Theater Works space and trumpete…
After an extensive nationwide open casting call, NBC today announced it has chosen New Jersey ...
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The nominees for the 21st Annual Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards have been announced. The ...
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In one way or another, Anton Chekhov has become the man of the moment on Chicago stages, even if his plays do not always arrive in their "original" form. Consider Sideshow Theatre's hit prod…
Confession: I was lured to Arlene Hutton’s two-character play “Last Train to Nibroc” by the ...
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Several alumni of Chicago’s iO improv theater who went on to national fame are returning ...
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There is no shortage of spectacle or talent on the stage of the Cadillac Palace Theatre at the moment, where the national touring company of director Diane Paulus' circus-infused production …
By Mary Houlihan | For the Sun-Times Chicago audiences are not strangers to interactive theater, ...
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