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Area Irish pubs are bringing out all the stops for St. Patrick's Day, with beer and whiskey flights, Irish music and dance, corned beef and cabbage and bagpipers galore.
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In transferring the scary movie 'Carrie' to the stage, as a musical, there are some challenges. Like that one scene near the end when, in a horribly cruel prank, Carrie White gets splattered with pig blood at a high school homecoming.
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The Illinois Symphony's popular "Holiday Pops in the Heartland" comes to Illinois State University's Concert Hall Saturday with a combined orchestra, joining players from Bloomington-Normal Youth Symphony, Springfield Choral Society and more.
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Songs from Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, Lo Moon, Mannie Fresh, and Hurray For the Riff Raff were among the most played on WGLT in 2022.
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Lexington sculptor talks community-supported art, a scrap metal elephant — and running for presidentWe caught up with Kasey Wells, a Lexington scrap metal artist who campaigned for president in 2020 toting a large scrap metal elephant sculpture around the U.S.
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As a young rocker known for his searing guitar solos, Bloomington native Matthew Curry opened for some of rock music’s GOATs like the Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton. His 2019 album “Open Road” marked a shift toward songwriting as Curry immersed himself in Nashville’s music scene. He plays Friday night at the Castle Theatre in Bloomington.
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The holidays are officially here, and two long-standing Twin City traditions are just the thing to take your family’s ho-ho-ho to the next level. WGLT's Lauren Warnecke visited Community Players and the Bloomington Center for the Arts as they made final preparations for their holiday revues.
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With a third work, Jacques Ibert’s 1956 “Hommage a Mozart,” Saturday evening's concert creates a chronology of three generations of canonical composers.
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A film screening Tuesday evening at the Normal Theater highlights stories of women making a difference in the fight against global climate change.
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Heartland Theatre Company's latest production tells the story of four women who made waves during the French Revolution — and paid the ultimate price. Lauren Gunderson's dark comedy, "The Revolutionists," is being performed through Nov. 19 in Normal.
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The Illinois Shakespeare Festival announced its 2023 season Thursday during a live-streamed event from Stave in Uptown Normal. The festival begins next June with “The Comedy of Errors,” “The Tempest,” and Lauren Gunderson’s 2017 play, “The Book of Will” running in rotation through August.
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Guest conductor Rei Hotoda leads the Illinois Symphony in “Virtuosic Voices,” kicking off the 2022-23 season Oct. 15 at Illinois State University’s Center for the Performing Arts. The engagement is the first since Ken Lam's departure and a move to Illinois State University after nearly two decades in downtown Bloomington.