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Frank Caliendo updates his list of impressions to keep show light and fun

March 7, 2022 at 2:29 p.m.

Comedian, actor and impressionist Frank Caliendo will perform March 18 at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora. It's a bit ironic that comedian Frank Caliendo, who has been doing impressions of...

Tribute artist’s Johnny Cash act started with audition for the original ‘Million Dollar Quartet’

March 2, 2022 at 10:08 a.m.

In 2004, singer Shawn Barker auditioned for the part of Elvis Presley in the Broadway production of "Million Dollar Quartet." Floyd Mutrux, the original director of the show, recognized Barker's...

Copley Theatre’s Bold Series kicks off with capitalism tale ‘Sweat’

February 23, 2022 at 2:07 p.m.

After waiting two years due to the pandemic, Paramount Theatre is finally launching its new BOLD Series with the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Sweat" at the Copley Theatre in the North...

For ‘Groundhog Day’ actor, following Bill Murray is a challenge

January 12, 2022 at 5:53 p.m.

The storyline of the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day" follows Phil Connors, played by comedian Bill Murray, as he relives the same day over and over, where one day is just...

Riverfront Playhouse takes on Steve Martin’s ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’

January 5, 2022 at 11:58 a.m.

"Picasso at the Lapin Agile" is a play about imagination and talent, and Director Jake Murphy sought similar traits in the people he cast for the show. "I was looking...

New Scrooge highlights Riverfront’s ‘Christmas Carol’

November 30, 2021 at 1:37 p.m.

For Aaron Hoge of Aurora, who is playing Ebenezer Scrooge in The Riverfront Playhouse's adapted production of "A Christmas Carol," it is a role of a lifetime. "I have never...

Buffalo Theatre Ensemble stages one-man play ‘Stove Toucher’

November 16, 2021 at 5:19 p.m.

Kurt Naebig will perform his one-person play, "Stove Toucher," from Nov. 26-Dec. 19 in the Playhouse Theatre of the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn. Buffalo...

Second City holiday revue returns to Paramount stage

November 16, 2021 at 4:46 p.m.

George C. Owens, an ensemble member of the touring company presenting "The Second City's Holiday Revue: It's a Wild, Wacky, Wonderful Life" at the Copley Theatre in Aurora, is confident...

‘Cinderella’ gallops onto Paramount stage

November 1, 2021 at 5:03 p.m.

The efforts by the Paramount Theatre's property and scenery departments to construct carriage horses for its production of "Cinderella" did not have the crews running around in circles, but they...

Newly reopened Riverfront Playhouse shows off updates

September 7, 2021 at 3:52 p.m.

When The Riverfront Playhouse opens "Looped" later this month, the show's co-directors are not only excited to be performing in front of a live audience inside the theater for the...

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