Archives for August 2017

CHICAGO – Paramount Theatre is proud to announce Artistic Director Jim Corti received the Illinois Theatre Association’s 2017 Award of Honor at the association’s annual Red Carpet Gala last Saturday, August 26, at Harper College’s Wojcik Conference Center in Palatine, Illinois. “Paramount continues to provide world-class entertainment to an annual audience of over 300,000 patrons

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Chicago – Drury Lane Theatre is thrilled to announce the complete lineup of its 2018/2019 season, opening with Tony Award-winning South Pacific. The season continues with Tennessee Williams’ sultry family drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, followed by the darkly comedic musical Little Shop of Horrors. For the holiday season, Drury Lane brings to

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Pack your picnic basket and bring your friends to enjoy an outdoor performance featuring some of opera’s most celebrated music performed by some of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s best talent in a free concert at Chicago’s Millennium Park, September 8 at 7:30 pm.. The program includes highlights from Rigoletto, Turandot, Faust, Die Walküre, The Pearl

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Chicago – Victory Gardens Theater, under the leadership of Artistic Director Chay Yew and Managing Director Erica Daniels, announces the one-night-only special event, An Evening with Tony Award-Winning Composer Jeanine Tesori. The event will be held on Monday, September 25 at 7:30 pm at the Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago. Tickets,

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There’s no role in opera more powerfully dramatic than the court jester Rigoletto, whose acid tongue and all-consuming desire for revenge lead to catastrophe for himself and his sweet, love-struck daughter Gilda. Rigoletto is one of Verdi’s greatest characterizations—a complex and tragic figure, pitiful and ferocious, with stupendous music to match. Action-packed plot and memorably

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