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This time-bending love story at Heartland Theatre Company follows two star-crossed 20-somethings who spent a single day in Dublin together — and the regret they carried for decades.
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The 23rd annual Art Walk is paired with a "shop small"-themed First Friday in downtown Bloomington
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Dramaturg Morgan Rondinelli says themes coursing through "Fiddler on the Roof" apply to contemporary Jewish Americans.
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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 second annual Further Jazz Festival includes an 8-piece band playing Oliver Nelson's 1961 landmark album, "Blues and the Abstract Truth," led by Oliver Nelson, Jr.
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Community Players Theatre in Bloomington is staging a new production of Neil Simon’s “Rumors.” WGLT talks to actors Sean Henderson and Alyssa Fabry about their roles and the show.
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The 2023-24 season at Heartland Theatre Company begins with a modern comedy compared to those by American playwright Neil Simon. After a break, retired Illinois State theater professor Cyndee Brown couldn't say no to directing "Grand Horizons."
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"Macbeth" was last produced at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in 2013. The so-called Scottish play was originally scheduled for 2020 and is only now finding its way back into rotation.
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The musical “Bright Star” centers on a haunting moment: someone putting an unwanted newborn baby into a small suitcase and tossing it into a river. Prairie Fire Theatre stages a production next week at Illinois Wesleyan’s Westbrook Auditorium in Bloomington.
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Leslie Carrara-Rudolph is best known as Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby. She takes a break from fairy training to bring comedy cabaret, puppet-making and a sock called Lolly Lardpop to Bloomington-Normal and Peoria. Carrara-Rudolph and Normal native Paul Rudolph will sit down to talk about their journeys to Sesame Street at the end of the four-day residency next month.