Arts And Theatre
Review: Players' actors fine in 'Pajama Game'
For 87 years, Community Players has been showcasing the skills of talented volunteers who devote a good eight weeks of their busy lives to bring quality entertainment to this community.
Nov 06, 2009 | 7:00 am | Loading…
Hudson library recalls Elbert Hubbard ahead of PBS documentary
HUDSON -- The Hudson Area Public Library will host a program Nov. 14 about Elbert Hubbard, founder of the influential arts community known as the Roycroft Campus, as a prelude to a PBS documentary about Hubbard airing later this month.
Nov 06, 2009 | 7:05 am | Loading…
Lots of scary fun brewing in Central Illinois
With a certain pagan holiday landing smack on a Saturday this year, the entire weekend is looking pretty darned gruesome. Here are some of the horrific highlights for Halloween 2009.
Oct 29, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Pregnant covergirl of Teen Vogue raises eyebrows
DALLAS -- A model on the November cover of Teen Vogue is a 19-year-old who reveals in the magazine that she is pregnant.
Oct 27, 2009 | 4:00 pm | Loading…
Review: 'Into the Blood' at ISU masterful
Running through Sunday at Illinois State University, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan Lori-Parks' "Into the Blood" paints a tragic picture of an unwed mother, mired in poverty, who has run out of options.
Oct 23, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Braden Auditorium preps for its Broadway series
NORMAL -- Illinois State University's Braden Auditorium hasn't really left us in recent years -- it just sort of seems that way.
Oct 22, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Peoria a stop on NEA's 'Art Works' tour
NEW YORK -- The country's top arts official is going on the road.
Oct 22, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
'Tap Dogs' kicks off Braden's Broadway series
If the lofty Lord of the Dance lost his cushy white-collar job and got cashiered down to 9-to-5, blue-collar status, he might just end up a Tap Dog.
Oct 22, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Museum replaces underage nude image of Brooke Shields
LONDON -- Britain's Tate Modern museum has replaced a nude image of 10-year-old Brooke Shields with a photograph of the actress as an adult.
Oct 17, 2009 | 9:00 am | Loading…
BCPA set to welcome national tour of 'Hairspray'
BLOOMINGTON -- It wasn't planned this way, but the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts' new season is turning into something of a Waters-shed.
Oct 15, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Arts in Brief 10/13/09
Arts in Brief for the week of Oct. 13, 2009:
Oct 13, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Harlem Globetrotters tour comes to B-N in January
BLOOMINGTON -- The Harlem Globetrotters will follow the bouncing ball back to Bloomington and the U.S. Cellular Coliseum in January.
Oct 12, 2009 | 9:10 am | Loading…
Arts in Brief 10/10/2009
Arts in Brief for the week of Oct. 10, 2009:
Oct 12, 2009 | 8:45 am | Loading…
Audience encouraged to dress the part, win tickets
BLOOMINGTON -- The Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts is going all the '80s way for Sunday's matinee performance of "The Wedding Singer."
Oct 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Broadway musical 'The Wedding Singer' relaxes for a spell at BCPA
Grandma Rosie's having the time of her life, movin' that thang from sea to shining sea.
Oct 08, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Arts in Brief 10/07/09
Arts in Brief for the week of Oct. 7, 2009:
Oct 07, 2009 | 7:45 am | Loading…
Arts in Brief 10/06/09
Arts in Brief for the week of Oct. 6, 2009:
Oct 06, 2009 | 7:25 am | Loading…
Sarah Palin's book part of conservative boom
NEW YORK -- These are boom times for conservative authors.
Oct 02, 2009 | 2:55 pm | Loading…
IWU's Evan Kasprzak thinks he can dance ... with good reason
"Heaven, I'm in heaven ..." -- Fred Astaire, dancing "Cheek to Cheek" with Ginger Rogers in "Swing Time" (1936). Evan's in heaven, too, just like that American idol of his quoted above.
Oct 01, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Review: 'What the Butler Saw' witty, fast-paced farce
"What the Butler Saw," a madcap farce currently playing at Illinois Wesleyan University's McPherson Theatre, is fast-paced, engaging and funny, with a splash of Oscar Wilde wit.
Oct 01, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Tickets to go on sale for 'Tap Dogs' at ISU
NORMAL -- Single admission tickets to "Tap Dogs," the first entry in the new "Broadway at Braden" series at Illinois State University's Braden Auditorium, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
Sep 30, 2009 | 6:45 am | Loading…
Video captures Hugh Jackman chiding cell phone offender
NEW YORK -- Hugh Jackman knows how to stop the show.
Sep 28, 2009 | 3:00 pm | Loading…
Review: 'Perfect Wedding' at ISU pure bliss
"A Perfect Wedding," which opened Wednesday at Illinois State University, has a very short run. It closes Sunday.
New Sep 25, 2009 | 6:35 am | Loading…
Review: 'Rumors' spreads laughter, mayhem, lies at Barn II
Some things just go really well together. Peanut butter and jelly. Wine and cheese. Life and laughter. Especially the latter, and no two entities make that clearer than revered American playwright Neil Simon, and the talented members of the Barn II Dinner Theatre Repertory company, who ca…
Sep 24, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Professor teaches vampire literature class
AURORA -- He didn't grow up idolizing Dracula, sleeping in a coffin, or touting a black, satin cape around town. But Donovan Gwinner was on a mission to find out why some people do just those things.
Sep 24, 2009 | 12:50 pm | Loading…
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- Raw Video: Bears Lose Their Fur in Leipzig Zoo
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- Babysitter Requested Help for Missing Infant
- The baby sitter of a missing infant sent a letter to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist months before she disappeared asking him to save the child from her drug-abusing parents. Shannon was last seen by her parents at their home early Saturday morning. (Nov. 4)
- Video: Preview tour of new Marriott
- The Bloomington-Normal Marriott Hotel and Conference Center will be open for business on Friday October 30, 2009. Enjoy a preview tour of the facility.
- Share a Grave With a Stranger?
- A London cemetery is urging strangers to share double-decker graves, to ease a space crisis. But the practice may run up against a British cultural aversion. (29 October 2009)
- Pelosi Presents Health Care Bill
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says new health care legislation will make affordable, quality health care available to nearly all Americans and represents a historic step. (Oct. 29)
- Obama Hails New GDP, Talks Health Care Reform
- President Barack Obama is hailing new figures showing the economy grew at a 3.5 percent rate in the third quarter. In remarks to a small business group, Obama says he believes the new figures show that the recession is easing. (Oct. 29)
