Friday, October 11, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Motortown" at Steep Theatre ★★★½
Detroit might be America's Motor City, but the "Motortown" of Simon Stephens' bleak, searing, deeply disturbing play o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:18PM[SHARE]The new book "Bigger, Brighter, Louder" recalls Claudia Cassidy and others who wrote the first draft of Chicago's theater history.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Once" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Once" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★★ ... "How's the heart?" asks the Da in…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Wrecks" at Profiles Theatre ★★★½
Drive past a funeral home in Chicago and you often catch a glimpse of them: big, middle-aged men uncomfortable with gr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:57PM[SHARE]Marguerite Duras' semi-autobiographical novel "L'Amant," or "The Lover," paints in many hues. It is a tactile portrait of the colors of Southern Indochina in 1929; it reminds us that not all…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2013
— With the indefatigable, deeply engaged and seemingly irreplaceable Norbert Leo Butz driving its storytelling and willing the show's crucial emotional subtext into being by sheer forc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Tercer Cuerpo" at MCA Chicago ★ ★
THEATER REVIEW: "Tercer Cuerpo" at MCA Chicago ★ ★ It's refreshing to the see the MCA's ever-interesting performan…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:32PM[SHARE]The news this week that Oprah Winfrey is likely to sell, or otherwise extricate herself from, some or all of her signature Harpo Studios on Chicago's Near West Side seemed to put the final p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:17PM[SHARE]Dale Benson, a Chicago actor whose career spans six decades, is to receive a special Joseph Jefferson Award at the November ceremony, the Jeff Awards committee said Friday. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2013
Sandy Shinner, the former associate artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater, has a new job. She is to become producing artistic director of the Shattered Globe Theatre, a venerable …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Cyrano de Bergerac" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Cyrano de Bergerac" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★ ... Edmond Rostand's ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:37PM[SHARE]Frankie Valli, the original Jersey Boy, returns to Chicago Saturday night for a concert at the Chicago Theatre. He talked about the "Jersey Boys" movie, among other topics, in the edited tal…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:25PM[SHARE]"Once," the beautiful Broadway musical based on the 2007 movie starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, finally arrives in Chicago next week; the stand at the Oriental Theatre is the first…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The iconoclastic movie star Bill Murray is always on the guest list for events celebrating anniversaries and the like at The Second City. But the famously unpredictable actor invariably does…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:26AM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Signs of Life" at the Biograph Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Signs of Life" at the Biograph Theater ★★½ ... There are "Signs of Life" in the am…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
In the first few minutes of David Leveaux's modern-dress revival of "Romeo and Juliet," which opened on Broadway this month and that put me in mind of one of David Copperfield's extravaganza…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:59PM[SHARE]NEW YORK — We humans are strange creatures, forever craving reinvention and yet unable to prevent our pasts from dancing around in our heads. No poet or playwright ever understood that…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Over lunch recently at Howells & Hood, the creators of the show "Old Jews Telling Jokes" were chortling about their sign. Signage is often an issue at the Royal George Theatre on Chicago's N…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:56PM[SHARE]Tarell Alvin McCraney, a 2003 graduate of DePaul University’s Theatre School, an ensemble member at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 2010, a sometime Chicago actor, and a writer k…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Pullman Porter Blues" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Pullman Porter Blues" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★ ... The immaculately …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:17PM[SHARE]Broadway in Chicago has announced several new bookings for the upcoming season, most of which are reprise engagements of popular touring attractions, although some are new productions. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:35AM[SHARE]At Sunday afternoon's opening of "It's All-Right to Have a Good Time: The Story of Curtis Mayfield" at Black Ensemble Theater, two of the 10 sons of the great Chicago-born singer and songwri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "4000 Miles" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "4000 Miles" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★★½ ... Amy Herzog'…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Wheel" from Steppenwolf Theatre Company ★ ★ ★ ½
Here in Chicago, of course, you do not have to look to Africa to see children impacted by violence…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:17PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2013
Tweeting while polite civilization burns and creativity is stifled
Is Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:21PM[SHARE]In 1978, before the merger of show business and politics was complete, it was still possible to build a show with the shocking premise that a working-class actress with a body and a dream co…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumnar, better known as Sting, will tryout his new Broadway musical in Chicago this June, confirming previously published expectations. "The Last Ship," as the show is …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "9 Circles" by Sideshow Theatre Company at the Storefront ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "9 Circles" by Sideshow Theatre Company at the Storefront ★★ύ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:36PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "To Master the Art" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "To Master the Art" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★★ ... Thursday night's …
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