Monday, December 2, 2013
The producers of “Wicked”  said Monday afternoon that the popular musical   grossed a whopping $1,935,432 in Chicago for the week ending   Dec. 1. That figure, lik…
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THEATER REVIEW: "The Mikado" in the Garage at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Mikado" in the Garage at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★★…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Elf the Musical" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Elf the Musical" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★ ... At one poin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:48PM[SHARE]You can make an excellent case that improvisation, at least in the modern entertainment sense of the word, was invented on the campus of the University of Chicago on July 5, 1955, when a gro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PM[SHARE]Second City on Tuesday night said that Katie Rich will be leaving its mainstage cast. She is to become a writer for "Saturday Night Live."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
It's been known for months that the Steppenwolf ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro was directing a new adaptation of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" with James Franco on Broadway this spring…
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THEATER REVIEW: "A Christmas Carol" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "A Christmas Carol" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ ... So, there's a s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:12PM[SHARE]A new holiday show written by, and starring, Dee Snider, lead singer of the band Twisted Sister, is to bow at the Broadway Playhouse, 175 E. Chestnut St., in Chicago in November of 2014.&nbs…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:12AM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: 'The Dead Prince' by Strange Tree Group ★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Dead Prince' by Strange Tree Group ★★ ... Emily Schwartz, one of Chicago's most inter…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]BROADWAY REVIEW: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder"
BROADWAY REVIEW: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" ... NEW YORK — Jefferson Mays, the extraordinary American actor at …
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REVIEW: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at United Center ★★★
REVIEW: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at United Center ★★★ ... If you …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]If a wealthy person writes a large check to a worthy cultural organization, does that constitute an act of leadership? It's an interesting question.
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BROADWAY REVIEW: "Macbeth" at Lincoln Center ... So what exactly is actor Ethan Hawke's relationship with ambition? You can throw whatever you want at the Scottish play, and the epic and gui…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:35PM[SHARE]Whenever a theater stops producing, its fans and supporters start to worry. So it was this fall with Chicago Dramatists, the 35-year-old nonprofit theater company known for its support of em…
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"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is to close on Broadway in January, following a steep dropoff in its Broadway grosses, its producers have confirmed.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:49PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "An Iliad" at Court Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "An Iliad" at Court Theatre ★★★★ ... The most strikingly theatrical moment i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:42PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★ ... To un…
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THEATER REVIEW: 'Appropriate' at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'Appropriate' at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater ★★★½ ... S…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:11PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: 'Detroit '67' at Northlight Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'Detroit '67' at Northlight Theatre ★★½ ... If a single moment sowed the seeds of the c…
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"Why do journalists prefer Twitter to Facebook?" Ezra Klein asked in a smart column this week for The Washington Post, noting that Twitter drives less than a tenth of the traffic of Facebook…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:06PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Hellcab" at Profiles Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Hellcab" at Profiles Theatre ★★★½ ... "Hellcab," a dark and politically incorre…
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Private donations make ambitious project in Glencoe possible
At an event scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Art Institute of Chicago, Writers Theatre of Glencoe is to announce that it h…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Great Expectations" by Strawdog Theatre Company ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Great Expectations" by Strawdog Theatre Company ★★★½ ... If …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:11PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "The Peacock" by Jackalope Theatre Company ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Peacock" by Jackalope Theatre Company ★★½ ... Calamity West — a young…
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"Big Fish," the ambitious Broadway musical based on the Tim Burton movie of the same name, has run out of line on Broadway.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:09PM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2013
"Don't make me have to move, Illinois," or some paraphrase thereof, was a dominant sentiment among cultural professionals on social media Tuesday, just before the Illinois House of Represent…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:28PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Rainpan 43: Elephant Room" at the MCA Stage ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Rainpan 43: Elephant Room" at the MCA Stage ★★★ ... If Andy Kaufman and…
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The landscape of suburban musical theater in Chicagoland is changing. Drastically. The arrival of self-produced musicals at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, hitherto mostly the province of l…
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