Friday, February 21, 2014
If you watched the nervous opening monologue of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," you could not have missed this line: "I'm Jimmy Fallon. I'll be your host, for now." Hmm. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:11PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: Profiles Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: Profiles Theatre ★★★ ... The historic backroom at 4139 N. Broadway has seen illicit activity in its…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
NEW YORK - As Francesca, the Iowa housewife at the heart of "The Bridges of Madison County," well knows, to love one's spouse and children and yet embark on an extramarital affair is to anti…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PM[SHARE]The Harris Theatre said late Thursday afternoon that it will be forced to remain closed through March 6 for repairs following an electrical fire Wednesday that cost the theater its performan…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:39PM[SHARE]“Old Jews Telling Jokes,” the commercial production that has played for five and half months at the Royal George Theatre, has posted its closing notice, cast members were told Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:19PM[SHARE]I've written before in this space about the crucial importance of live music to the musical-theater experience. Nothing is more disappointing than a show played to tape — such as the r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: "Buzzer" in the Goodman's Owen Theater ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Buzzer" in the Goodman's Owen Theater ★★★½ ... "We are gentrifiers," d…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]In the first of the major 2014-15 season announcements from Chicago’s theaters, Northlight Theatre said Wednesday that its 40th anniversary season will include a fall production of Ama…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
James Franco is not just in Chicago for a poetry reading. The actor, who stars along with Chris O'Dowd in Anna D. Shapiro's upcoming Broadway production of "Of Mice and Men," actually is reh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 16, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'Russian Transport' at Steppenwolf Theatre ★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'Russian Transport' at Steppenwolf Theatre ★½ "Russian Transport," the new show at the Steppe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:26PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★★ ... "Anybody that sta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:40PM[SHARE]Shirley Temple Black, who died Monday, was, as Shirley Temple, the biggest child star of them all. In the last two years of her contract with 20th Century Fox in the late 1930s, she was maki…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: "Into the Woods" by The Hypocrites at the Mercury Theater ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Into the Woods" by The Hypocrites at the Mercury Theater ★★ ... Be care…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'Chicago's Golden Soul' at Black Ensemble Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'Chicago's Golden Soul' at Black Ensemble Theater ★★★ So what came …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:17AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'Edible Inevitable' at the Oriental Theatre
THEATER REVIEW: 'Edible Inevitable' at the Oriental Theatre. The 51-year-old Food Network star Alton Brown does not advocate buyi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
In Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady's clear-eyed, 2012 documentary "Detropia," which anticipated many of the things that would happen in (and to) the bankrupt Motor City in the year that followe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:35PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "The How and the Why" at TimeLine Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The How and the Why" at TimeLine Theatre ★★★★ ... Elizabeth …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2014
The national touring company of "Motown: The Musical" will exit Chicago after no more than six months and head to Detroit and elsewhere, the producers announced on Thursday. &…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: "Sons of the Prophet" at American Theater Company ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Sons of the Prophet" at American Theater Company ★★½ ... In the very fin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't Misbehavin'" at Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't Misbehavin'" at Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★ ... There is some…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:35PM[SHARE]The Second City and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago will embark on a new and distinctive collaboration this fall. A sketch-comedy show, as yet untitled but on the theme of modern dance and come…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:59PM[SHARE]"Amazing Grace," a new musical about the composer of the hymn of that name, will bow officially this fall in Chicago with performances from Oct. 9 through Nov. 2 at the Bank of America Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
The long-running Chicago production of "Old Jews Telling Jokes" is moving to the Royal George cabaret space on Thursday, vacating the larger Royal George mainstage.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:09PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Hamlet is Dead. No Gravity" by Red Tape Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Hamlet is Dead. No Gravity" by Red Tape Theatre ★★★ ... This very i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:35PM[SHARE]With John von Rhein's four-star review of "The Barber of Seville" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, we're adding the world of opera to The Theater Loop.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PM[SHARE]The two best performances I've seen on screen this year, Chiwetel Ejiofor in "12 Years a Slave" (Ejiofor should win an Academy Award on March 2) and Tom Hanks in "Captain Phillips" (Hanks, u…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: 'strangers, babies' at Steep Theatre. ★★½
Steep Theatre never shies away from plays about the dark corners of the soul, the ones that fester as you go about y…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
THEATER REVIEW: "Rose and the Rime" at House Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Rose and the Rime" at House Theatre ★★★ ... If this hellish Chicago January pro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:35PM[SHARE]The big wave of winter theater openings, many of which took place in subzero temperatures, is in a brief lull. The pace picks up again next week, but enough has come down to merit an update.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:56PM[SHARE]In a move that comes after NBC's "Saturday Night Live" reacted to intense pressure to hire more minority performers, Chicago's Second City says it has created a new (and tuition-free) multi-…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:56PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
