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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: Pilsen, Goodman Theatre, The Jungle Book (movie), Cirque du Soleil, Arts and Culture
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Nikki Reed's 'Downers Grove' film on hold, LMFAO DJing at Enclave, 'Cake Boss' eats Lou Malnati's
The thriller “Downers Grove” – which revolves around a high school in Downers Grove, Ill. where one senior mysteriously dies at the end of each year -- was supposed to begin filming in Louisiana last spring. But here we are in November...Tags: Entertainment, Prom Night (movie), Disc Jockeys, Arts and Culture, Movies
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When our heroes are revealed to be flawed ...
In the movie "Flight," for which Denzel Washington scored an Oscar nomination, a brilliant pilot successfully lands a catastrophically damaged plane, saving scores of lives, even though this captain was high as he sat behind the throttle. To some degree,...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Entertainment, Oprah Winfrey, OWN (tv network), Lance Armstrong
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Steppenwolf starting construction on education center
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company is about to post "pardon our dust" notices in its lobbies. On Monday, workers are to remove the facade of the former home of the Ethan Allen furniture store at 1700 N. Halsted St., located directly north of the...Tags: Arts and Culture
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Al Pacino and his 'Stand Up Guys' among the stars slotted for CIFF
With its founder Michael Kutza nearing his half-century mark as leader, the Chicago International Film Festival announced its 48th edition slate Thursday. Heavily concentrated, as it has been in recent years, at the downtown AMC River East 21 multiplex,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Back to the Future (movie), The Sessions (movie), Millennium Park, Stand Up Guys (movie)
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Lookingglass captures the ambiguity of baseball's barrier-shattering moment
There's a moment in "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting," the terrific new show at the Lookingglass Theatre, when the caller of the 1947 meeting, Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie...Tags: Jackie Robinson, Water Supply, Entertainment, Baseball, Paul Robeson
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A few more 'Hit the Wall' shows. But this is last call at Stonewall.
"Hit the Wall," the hit, freewheeling show about the Stonewall riots, has been extended for one last week, Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced early Friday. The show, penned by Ike Holter, created by the independent theater company known as The... -
House Theatre still offering a 'Nutcracker' like no other
A few minutes into the House Theatre's distinctive version of "The Nutcracker" — one of my favorite holiday shows — the Christmas jollity of an exuberant household is suddenly ended by a gust of frigid wind and the arrival at the door of a man...Tags: Entertainment, Concerts, Religious Festivals, Arts and Culture, Fiction
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Tomorrow looking bright for 'Annie'
Everyone's first "Annie" should be at a venerable venue like the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, which opened for business in 1931, right when "Little Orphan Annie" mania was at its peak. The historic theater on the Fox River was built just one year after...
Tags: Entertainment, Chicago Tribune, Religion and Belief, Human Interest, Arts and Culture
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Etel Billig, Chicago theater pioneer, dies after taking ill at her theater
Etel Billig, the co-founder of the Illinois Theatre Center in Park Forest, an indefatigable pioneer of professional theater in the Chicago suburbs and a Chicago actress with decades of work on the city's leading stages, died March 28, after suffering a...
Tags: Colin Egglesfield, Aneurysm, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture, Politics
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John Cusack defends 'The Raven' against critics, The Miz dines at Japonais, 'Mob Wives Chicago' teaser debuts
Some actors choose to ignore the critics. And then some, like John Cusack, choose to take the critics on. The Evanston native and “Hot Tub Time Machine” star went on the defensive Friday after his new film, “The Raven,”...
Tags: Brandon Marshall, Theo Epstein, Reviews, Twitter, Inc., Arts and Culture
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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Rome (Italy), The Shining (movie), Foreign Language (Movie Genre), Stanley Kubrick, Holy Motors (movie)
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