After two years of waiting, Paramount Theatre will launch its new Bold Series next month to bring a new, four-show subscription series, and a new type of live theater, fearless, unexpected and thought-provoking, to the heart of Aurora’s downtown entertainment district. The inaugural production is Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s acclaimed modern-day
After a two-year hiatus, downtown Aurora’s 24th Annual Blues on the Fox Festival is roaring back this Summer, with a killer lineup of longtime favorites and new talent playing live blues on the banks of the Fox River, Friday and Saturday, June 17-18, at Thomas J. Weisner RiverEdge Park. Friday
The Elgin Symphony Orchestra (ESO) will perform “Mozart Requiem” at the Hemmens Cultural Center Saturday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m., will feature multiple notable artists with Chicago roots. The concerts will begin with four acclaimed vocalists, soprano Amanda Forsythe, mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider, tenor
Student musicians and an art show were a highlight of the Marmion Academy Music Boosters’ annual pancake breakfast fundraiser Sunday, Feb. 13. In addition to pancakes with sides, patrons were treated to eight performances by student musicians. Performing at intervals were choral, jazz and brass groups from Marmion, Rosary High
Cross Lutheran Church, 8609 Rt. 47 in Yorkville, will be host to the Stoughton (Wis.) Norwegian Dancers, a folk-dance troupe, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6. The performance is open to vaccinated community members. Admission and parking are free. The sponsor is Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 4-472, a
La Sociedad D’Paul performed at La Quinta de los Reyes, 36 E. New York Street downtown Aurora, during February’s First Fridays events Friday, Feb. 4.
Onesti Entertainment has announced it will be host to a free Nurses Night featuring “A Night of ABBA” with Dancing Queen Friday, Jan. 28 at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles. In light of what undoubtedly has been the toughest 24 months in our nurses’ careers, the entertainment company is
The Venue is pleased to announce Part II of its Rock Talk Free Lecture Series: The Rise and Fall of Stax Records: Memphis Soul and the music industry at the epicenter of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The event will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022
Imagine being stuck in a time loop, waking up, and realizing you’re living the same day over and over and over and over again. Set your alarm to see Groundhog Day: The Musical, based on the classic Bill Murray film comedy, because the forecast calls for Paramount artistic director Jim
An Aurora University handbell ringer performs Sunday, Dec. 5, at the music department’s annual Christmas concert, “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” in Crimi Auditorium.
Five participants mug for the camera (so to tie in with the occasion) in downtown Aurora Friday, Dec. 3 at the annual Cocoa Crawl event as part of First Fridays.
Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May Street in Aurora, will show the comedy film “Elf” at a family Christmas and movie night. The event will open at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10. The public is invited. Admission, parking, and refreshments, are free. In addition to the movie, activities will
By Al Benson Aurora University will present “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” the Music Department’s annual Christmas concert, Sunday, Dec. 5. Performances will be at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Crimi Auditorium in the Institute for Collaboration, 1347 Prairie Street in Aurora. The public is invited.
Magical Starlight Theatre will present four outdoor performances of “A Shopper’s Christmas Carol” at the Naperville Riverwalk Amphitheatre December 11 and 12. The script follows the Charles Dickens story, “A Christmas Carol,” with adaptations by Paul Mapes, a local writer. “We are so excited to be spreading holiday cheer to
At estimated 7,000 celebrants attended in downtown Aurora Friday, Nov. 19 at the annual Winter Lights Celebration.The holiday season started in grand style in the State’s second-largest city, with Winter Lights , which included a parade surrounded by colorful lights and sing-along with Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. Then, mayor
InterFaith Aurora will be host to its 14th annual “Thanksgiving Celebration of Music and Friendship” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, at the Cathedral of Grace St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church, 2950 Bilter Road, Aurora. All presenting songs and religious praise from diverse congregations throughout the Aurora area will
The City of Aurora government recently opened its newest holiday-themed light show at the Fox Valley Mall.
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” a comedy/fantasy film based on the 1984 original, will be screened at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Cinemark Tinseltown USA, 320 S. Lincolnway in North Aurora. Fox Valley area residents 50 and older are invited. Admission and parking are free. Attendees are required to show proof of
Aurora Central Catholic (ACC) High School actors will perform Thornton WIlder’s “Our Town” Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5-6, at 7 p.m. at the school, 1255 N. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora. The public is invited. Admission is $10. Reserved seats are an additional $1. Philip A. Nohl, ACC drama and choir
By Al Benson Ghosts of Aurora settlers came alive Saturday, Oct. 16, at Aurora’s Big Woods Cemetery Walk. Aurora-based Big Woods School Foundation, a nonprofit, staged the first-ever walk at the Cemetery on Eola Road near Butterfield Road. The Walk was to raise funds for restoration of adjacent Big Woods
