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Musicals to 'LeapFest,' 41 more shows for your summer
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of your house and into the long-delayed sunny season, Chicago theaters of all sizes unleash some of their most promising offerings of the year. When you're ready for a break from the beach and the ballpark,...
Tags: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Entertainment, The Happiest News!, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Steppenwolf Theatre
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Summer 2013: 10 theater shows for a sunny Chicago
Two components of many a Chicago summer of live entertainment are absent this year — there's no Cirque du Soleil tent at the United Center and no Riverfront Theater at the Tribune Company's Freedom Center. So you'll have to go camping for fun...
Tags: William Petersen, Riverfront Theater, Entertainment, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Lion King (movie)
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Artists, Values, Religion and Belief, Entertainment, Fiction
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BRIEF: Claudia Schmidt comes home to Sleder's
The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich.Claudia Schmidt will perform in an "On the Porch" concert at Sleder's Family Tavern on Sunday, May 19. For nearly four decades, Schmidt has been exploring the nuances of acoustic music with her voice, 12-string guitar and mountain dulcimer. She has been...Tags: Music Industry, Music, Entertainment
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: Genetics, Ewing's sarcoma, Medical Specialization, Unrest, Conflicts and War, New York University
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Executive profile: Maria Green
Maria Green let silence fall over a weekly meeting before weighing in on the question of how Illinois Tool Works should supply information to board members inquiring about vote tallies at annual meetings. The pause prompted staff members to share...
Tags: Graduation, Colleges and Universities, Companies and Corporations, Beverly, Restructuring and Recapitalization
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'Vera Stark' looks back at lost stars
The idea for "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," now in performances through June 2 at the Goodman Theatre, came to playwright Lynn Nottage the way so many of us discover so many slivers of old Hollywood. How? By happening upon a lesser-known title on the...
Tags: Human Interest, Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal,...Tags: Artists, Graduation, Unity (music group), Colleges and Universities, Authors
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Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" Wins Pulitzer Prize
Hartford Courant"Disgraced," by Ayad Akhtar, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his work in his off-Broadway play depicting "a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage." The play...Tags: London Theatre, Entertainment, Theater, Hartford Stage, Off-Broadway Theater
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Dick Meyers' Puppetry Project Set for UConn
Hartford Courant"Cinderella" and" Beauty and the Beast" will make up "The Dick Meyers Project," featuring UConn puppet Arts graduate student Seth Shaffer at the Studio Theatre in Storrs, Thursday, April 11 to Sunday, April 14. Connecticut Repertory Theatre's family...Tags: Storrs, Arts and Culture, Cinderella (movie), Science and Technology, Connecticut Repertory Theatre
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Review: In 'Smokefall' the real drama is lost in the haze
"Smokefall" appears to be Noah Haidle's version of "Our Town." Nearly every American playwright has one, but most keep them hidden in desk drawers. This addition to the Thornton Wilder 2.0 collection, however, has been honored with an attentive...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Orson Bean
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Andre de Shields to star in Goodman 'Jungle Book'
The Goodman Theatre said Wednesday that Andre de Shields, a growing presence on the Chicago theater scene, would be part of the ensemble cast of Mary Zimmerman's "The Jungle Book" this spring. He'll play King Louie. The show, which uses the beloved...Tags: Arts and Culture, Richard & Robert Sherman, The Jungle Book (movie)
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