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Paul Sorvino will star in Amarok Productions’ murder mystery Precious Mettle shooting this summer outside Chicago.

Police Commander Frank Walsh, after losing his wife and daughter in a tragic car crash many years ago, is about to retire. Facing further emptiness in his life, Frank learns that a heroin addict, Judy, may be his daughter from a relationship 26 years ago. While coming to terms with this reality, his best friend Charlie, a retired cop, is murdered and his money and gold goes missing. Frank must now find the killer, search for the gold, help Judy overcome her demons and allow himself a second chance to be a father. Precious Mettle takes us on a dangerous discovery of murder, motives and money.

Precious Mettle joins a vibrant list of feature films and top-notch television shows shooting in the Chicago community this summer including Michael Bay ’s Transformers 4, Neil Burger ’s $40 million film Divergent,...

Chicago – The popular image of the newspaper reporter screaming into the phone with a hot scoop most likely began with the popular and oft-produced stageplay, “The Front Page.” Timeline Theatre of Chicago presents an essential restaging of the classic with superior attention to period detail.

Play Rating: 4.0/5.0

This is also a true blood Chicago story, staged originally in 1928 and written by two former reporters in the Windy City, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. The stink of politics, corruption of the legal system and the men who reported on these topics permeate the atmosphere of the serio-comedy, set in the days when Chicago had nine circulating newspapers, including the now defunct Daily News and the still surviving Tribune.

The story opens in the press room of the municipal courtroom building, where the denizens of the various Chicago newspapers are killing time before covering an impending execution. The accused, Earl Williams (Rob...