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Exit laughing: Northlight Theatre closes Skokie era with hilarious ‘Angel Next Door’

Exit laughing: Northlight Theatre closes Skokie era with hilarious ‘Angel Next Door’

Northlight Theatre bids farewell to its longtime Skokie home with a hugely entertaining revival of Paul Slade Smith’s screwball comedy “The Angel Next Door.”

 
Best Bets: Great America opening, Long Grove Craft Beer Fest and Hannibal Buress

Best Bets: Great America opening, Long Grove Craft Beer Fest and Hannibal Buress

Great America opens for its 50th season, Long Grove hosts its annual craft beer festival, Aurora’s Venue salutes storied Chicago blues label Delmark Records, and comedian Hannibal Buress headlines the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts.

 
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St. Charles dining scene heating up with new restaurant fire + wine

St. Charles dining scene heating up with new restaurant fire + wine

For nearly 15 years, BG Hospitality Group has brought people together around plates of wood-fired pizza and Italian favorites at Gia Mia, Livia Italian Eatery and Ella’s Italian Pub. Their latest restaurant, fire + wine in St. Charles, brings the company full circle, as their first restaurant was fire + wine’s first location in downtown Glen Ellyn.

 
Things to do April 24-30: Cirque Italia, Fear No Art Festival, final performances of ‘Hamilton’ and more

Things to do April 24-30: Cirque Italia, Fear No Art Festival, final performances of ‘Hamilton’ and more

Mark your calendar for Cirque Italia’s Atlantis Water Circus in Aurora, College of Lake County’s Fear No Art Festival, the last weekend of “Hamilton” at Chicago’s CIBC Theatre, the Central States Numismatic Society Convention in Schaumburg and more.

 
Dining out: Endless shrimp is back at Red Lobster

Dining out: Endless shrimp is back at Red Lobster

The wait is over: Endless shrimp is back at Red Lobster for a limited time. Also, Hometown Coffee and Juice is coming to Hinsdale, and seven suburban restaurants are supporting the Sip and Share for Foster Care initiative.

 
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The King of Pop is resurrected, sans complications, in ‘Michael’

The King of Pop is resurrected, sans complications, in ‘Michael’

“Michael” slides a sequined glove over the pop star’s tarnished legacy, shrouding Michael Jackson’s complications with a conventional biopic that, if you cover your ears, sounds great.

 
Music Review: Noah Kahan’s ‘The Great Divide’ meets the moment as a ‘Stick Season’ successor

Music Review: Noah Kahan’s ‘The Great Divide’ meets the moment as a ‘Stick Season’ successor

Gather around. Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan’s fourth studio album, “The Great Divide,” out Friday, April 24, picks up where “Stick Season” left off with folksy, introspective hooks and catchy choruses that hit like a windows-down drive on a cool summer night. He plays two sold-out shows at Wrigley Field July 14-15.

 
Concerts April 24-30: Lewis Capaldi, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and more

Concerts April 24-30: Lewis Capaldi, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and more

Upcoming concerts include Lewis Capaldi at the United Center, Mud Morganfield at Hey Nonny, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at the United Center, Shawn Mullins at SPACE and more.

 
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Animated spinoff turns the ‘Stranger Things’ aesthetic upside down

Animated spinoff turns the ‘Stranger Things’ aesthetic upside down

The animated reboot “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85,” streaming Thursday on Netflix, comes on the heels of the last season of the live-action “Stranger Things.”

 
Spotlight: Paramount Theatre revives Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘South Pacific’

Spotlight: Paramount Theatre revives Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘South Pacific’

Paramount Theatre stages “South Pacific,” Lifeline Theatre premieres the rock musical “Loki,” Metropolis Performing Arts Centre stages “The Wedding Singer,” and Raven Theatre presents its first musical, the a cappella tuner “Octet.”

 

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