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Goodman gala brings 'Jungle Book' to life
Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" came to life May18 at the Fairmont Chicago hotel for more than 700 people in attendance at the Goodman Theatre Gala. The evening featured the first musical performance of selected songs from the theater's new summer...
Tags: The Jungle Book (movie), Theater, Entertainment Events, Tony Awards, Music Theater
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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: The Lion King (movie), Entertainment Events, Broadway Theater, Music Theater, United Center
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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: Entertainment Events, Broadway Theater, Bank of America Corp., Music Theater, Victory Gardens Theatre
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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: Chicago Transit Authority, Entertainment Events, Museums, Art Institute of Chicago, Values
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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: Wars and Interventions, Iraq, New York University, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genetics
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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: Jamaica, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Business, Washington, DC, Garfield Park
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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: Lollapalooza, Awards and Prizes, Washington, DC, University of Wisconsin-Madison, England
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Play based on a life becomes a story that touches all
"Write about your own life" says many a writing teacher to many a young scribe. Confronted with that authoritative solipsism, the young writer tends to worry about two things. First, that my life is not interesting enough to write about, especially not...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Iraq, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment Events, Armed Conflicts
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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: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Greenwich Village, Theater, Entertainment Events, Hartford Stage
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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: Frank Oz, Arts and Culture, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, University of Cincinnati, Cinderella (movie)
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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, The Jungle Book (movie), Richard & Robert Sherman
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Q&A: Tamberla Perry of 'By the Way, Meet Vera Stark'
For RedEyeSure, she's a WGN host for Illinois Lottery drawings and was recognized in 2011 as one of Chicago Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful Chicagoans"—but Tamberla Perry is more than just a pretty face. You may also have seen the native Chicagoan—who...Tags: Kelsey Grammer, University of Chicago, Fashion Trends, Entertainment Events, Barack Obama
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