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'The Foreigner' opens Friday at Corn Stock
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:27
- Written by Paul Gordon
One might think that directing a show at a community theatre with a Broadway veteran in the cast would be a snap.
That isn't so, said Jeff Sloter, who is director of "The Foreigner," the next offering of Corn Stock Theatre's summer season under the tent at Upper Bradley Park.
"The Foreigner," written by Larry Shue, opens...
Broadway, film vet comes home to perform in Peoria
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- Published on Friday, 14 June 2013 17:37
- Written by Paul Gordon
Steve Vinovich gives the kind of advice that matters most, that which comes from experience. That's why he tells wanna-be professional actors to be willing to work hard, sell themselves and learn to take rejection and keep coming back for more.
"It all comes down to how much you want it. If you're ambivalent about it then don't bother. The real work in acting is getting the job. The job is the cookie," said Vinovich, a Peoria native and...
Peoria Players celebrates 95 years
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- Published on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 15:29
- Written by Paul Gordon
In 1957-58, Peoria Players produced only one show and did it as a traveling show while the company's current theatre on North University Street was under construction.
It may not have seemed all that significant at the time, but it is today as Peoria Players Theatre celebrates 95 consecutive years of entertaining the Peoria area with musicals, dramas,...
Coversions: Our 40+ Favorite Cover Versions of Songs
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- Published on Friday, 14 June 2013 16:15
- Written by Kevin Kizer
Kevin Kizer: One of the things we like to do at The Peorian is compile lists of our favorite things. Sometimes these lists are about the Peoria area but more and more we find ourselves leaning towards pop culture – and in many cases, music. This week we – or more specifically Bill Knight and myself – decided to take a rather in-depth look at the cover versions – or coversions*...
Conklin's offers 'Life Could Be a Dream'
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- Published on Monday, 03 June 2013 15:27
- Written by The Peorian
The musical "Life Could Be a Dream" will make its central Illinois debut when it plays at Coklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre, starting Thursday, June 6.
The musical, written by Roger Bean, is listed as a "1960s Doo Wop musical" and it will run Thursdays through Sundays for six weeks, July 14.
It stars Conklin's veterans Dan and Tamra...
Wet weather doesn't dampen Summer Camp fun
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- Published on Friday, 14 June 2013 13:46
- Written by Julian Watkins
Editor's note: The Peorian got a couple press passes and sent a freelance writer, Julian Watkins, and our own Stu Clubb (and his camera) to the Summer Camp Music Festival to review the event. Here is their first installment.
Every year on Memorial Date weekend, Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe is filled with thousands of music lovers flocking to the campgrounds for a weekend filled with heavy hitting musical...
Knight: Amazing priest was everyday guy – and guiding light
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- Published on Monday, 03 June 2013 11:16
- Written by Bill Knight
After an invigorating, uplifting Peoria Cursillo renewal weekend in 1999, my heart was drawn to Catholicism but my head resisted with resentment. Among various voices, influences and sounding boards during and after that ecumenical experience in Christianity, I heard priests and Protestant pastors alike acknowledge my misgivings, but none were as meaningful as a sort of guide in absentia, Father Andrew Greeley, who died Thursday at his Chicago...
Knight: Area student became novelist, writer for film, TV
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- Published on Thursday, 13 June 2013 14:59
- Written by Bill Knight
Jonathan Latimer wasn't from Peoria, but the 1929 graduate of Knox College in Galesburg became "one of the best Golden Age authors of the hard-boiled school you've probably never heard of," said one critic, and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on Friday, June 21 is showing two classic film noir movies he wrote.
Latimer's writing...
Towery on Fiction: Is that a spaceship in your garage?
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- Published on Friday, 31 May 2013 14:39
- Written by Terry Towery
Authors note: This is one of an occasional series of articles on fiction writing by Peorian Terry Towery, a budding novelist and veteran of more writing conferences and seminars than anyone should ever have to attend. Towery's debut novel, the psychological thriller "The Final Victim" is currently being shopped to literary agents in New York City. Two are actually reading it right now. Wish him luck. He's going to need it.
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