Arts and EntertainmentMarch 11, 2010 The Northwest Area Arts Council invites the public to view the 23d Annual Women's Works Exhibition. This national juried show embraces all disciplines of visual art. The results are a very exciting mix of media, styles and statements, according to a news release. Fox Valley Academy of Music Performance recently announced auditions for the 2010-11 season of the Fox Valley Youth Symphony Orchestras, Summer Symphony and associated ensembles are scheduled from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 17 at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 420 W. Downer Place, Aurora. Four metal acts will grace the stage at Otto’s Niteclub in DeKalb on April 2. The band 29 Needles will headline with War Mouth, Witch Beulah and Mechina supporting them. Chicagoland modern rock quintet Cobia will play at Otto’s Niteclub on Friday. The 46-member choir from Bradley University will present a variety of music in the Rochelle Township High School auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The next Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance Studio Series show is getting up close and personal with David Ives’ play, “Ancient History,” which will be presented Winners of the Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition, Ryan Murphy from Maine South High School in Park Ridge and Nathan Noh from Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, performed with Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra on Feb. 28 at Northern Illinois University. Bulging, blue children, flying Wonkavators and ooodles of Oompa Loompas are all part of Children’s Community Theatre’s production of “Willy Wonka” this weekend. On the evenings of March 25-27, Egyptian Theatre in downtown DeKalb will host The Tournées Film Festival, a series of five contemporary European films sponsored by the Northern Illinois University Film Society with the support of a grant from the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs and the NIU Departments of English and Foreign Language and Literatures. An upcoming concert promises great music from high school jazz musicians in the Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts. Northern Illinois University is looking for families to host a pair of Southeast Asian teenagers for 12 days in April. At its annual banquet, held Jan. 30, Stage Coach Players announced the plays for its 2010 summer season. Audition dates are March 20-22 for the spring radio play and all six summer productions. The NIU Steelband and the NIU Jazz Ensemble will present a joint concert at 8 p.m. March 20 at the Duke Ellington Ballroom in the Holmes Student Center, located on the campus of Northern Illinois University. By JOHN PUTERBAUGH - jputerbaugh@daily-chronicle.com Comedian Ron White will bring his stogie, his Scotch whisky and his show, “Behavioral Problems,” to DeKalb’s Egyptian Theatre this month. March 4, 2010 MER, a Chicago-based singer and songwriter, will headline the “Help Haiti” benefit concert March 19 at Otto’s in DeKalb. Doors open at 8 p.m. Flatfoot 56, a Chicago Celtic-punk band, will return to DeKalb March 11 for a show at The House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway. The event is for all ages and doors open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now. Love, poverty, drugs and homosexuality are just some of the weighty topics to be featured in Indian Valley Theatre’s spring production of “Rent: School Edition.” Sycamore High School’s Orchesis Dance Troupe will present its third annual dance show, “On Broadway!” at 7:30 p.m. March 11-13. Doors of the school auditorium open at 7 p.m. Ninety-two students, ages 8-21, from nine counties in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin competed Feb. 21 in the 49th annual Chandler Starr Miller Scholarship Competition. California-based writer Julia Serano – who has gained national attention in transgender and feminist circles for her unique insights into gender – will visit NIU in March to deliver a public lecture on the topic of “rethinking sexualization.” Young artists ages 10-15 have the opportunity to work with ebony pencil, as well as chalk pastels in Drawing in Black and White and Color. This class, offered by the Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts, is scheduled to run from 1-2:30 p.m. six Saturdays, beginning March 20. “Memories & Milestones,” a group of exhibits at DeKalb Area Women’s Center, 1021 State St., DeKalb, will be free and open to the public from 7-9 p.m. Fridays in March. Bulging, blue children, flying Wonkavators and ooodles of Oompa Loompas are all part of Children’s Community Theatre’s production of Willy Wonka, which debuts this weekend. The Da Capo Duo – flutist Kristin Paxinos and guitarist Ben Westfall – will perform a free concert at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Elburn Community Center. The Genoa-Kingston Drama Department will present the epic musical “Fiddler On The Roof” March 12-14 in the G-K Auditorium. By JOHN PUTERBAUGH - jputerbaugh@daily-chronicle.com In a quaint country house on Route 30 in Big Rock, Natasha Lehrer maintains a rural haven in a modern society. February 25, 2010 Prom gown sale set in Genoa The Greater Kishwaukee Area Concert Band will present “A World of Music” at 3 p.m. March 14 in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, in Northern Illinois University’s Music Building at 550 Lucinda Ave., DeKalb. Stage Coach Players will present a revival of “The Music Man” for its annual spring production. Stage Coach originally produced the family favorite in 1987 at the Egyptian Theatre. This time around, Stage Coach will produce the musical at its theater at 126 S. Fifth St., DeKalb, March 4-7 and March 11-14. Directing the production is Sue Johnson of Sycamore. Nika Plattos is musical director. |
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