Wednesday, September 18, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "To Master the Art" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "To Master the Art" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★★ ... Thursday night's …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:40PM[SHARE]"The Book of Morman," which ends its Chicago engagement at the Bank of America Theatre on Oct. 6 after 43 weeks and 344 performances, is coming back to Chicago, likely during the fall or win…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Killer Angels" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Killer Angels" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½ ... To survey the Gettysburg Battlefiel…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PM[SHARE]Steppenwolf Theatre Company anounced Wednesday that its annual Women in the Arts benefit luncheon will this year honor the actresses Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale and Julianne Nicholson.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:44PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "In the Heights" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "In the Heights" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½ ... The m…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Katori Hall's 'Mountaintop' fills in the space between Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech, death
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Ten…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
PigPen Theatre Co., a group of handsome, musically talented young men who met at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, are certainly riding a forceful wave with their ensemble-forged piece of…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:58PM[SHARE]BRANSON, Mo. — Known simply as "Six," the Knudsen Brothers (Barry, Kevin, Lynn, Jak, Owen and Curtis) have a wholesome variety show out here on Highway 76, wherein they use only their …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
The Off-Broadway comedy "Buyer & Cellar," starring Michael Urie, is headed to Chicago. The limited engagement begins next April at Broadway in Chicago's Broadway Playhouse. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:54PM[SHARE]A Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member returning to Chicago to appear in a show at Steppenwolf is not typically big news. Why else have an ensemble? But the case of Joan Allen is diff…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "This is War" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "This is War" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★ ... On the face of it, the Sign…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:24PM[SHARE]"Carrie," one of most Broadway's most infamous Broadway flops, is making its first appearance in Chicago. The campy musical, recently revived Off-Broadway where it flopped again, will be the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
In the realm of high fantasy, complexity is a badge of honor. This has been true since the days of J.R.R. Tolkien, whose seminal works of the genre are neither brief nor monolithic reads, an…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:19PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'Hank Williams: Lost Highway' by American Blues Theater at the Greenhouse ★★★½
Musical biographies are as common in Chicago as family fiddlers on Highwa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2013
Grisham's legal thriller headlines star-filled lineup
John Grisham has written novels, short stories, books for children and nonfiction works, and in all of the above, he has done very nic…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:29PM[SHARE]After 19 years directing in area theaters large and small, you'd hardly call Kimberly Senior any kind of sudden success. Still, it's hard to think of another Chicago director with a remotely…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:14PM[SHARE]The temperature outside the doors of the Black Ensemble Theatre was 96 degrees. In the lobby inside, Reginald Torian was the epitome of old-school cool: pressed linen pants, two-tone shoes, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:13PM[SHARE]The fall theater season of 2013 is already very much underway. From the scores of intriguing possibilities, here are 10 Chicago shows, opening between now and the holidays, that sound especi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:10PM[SHARE]Theatre at the Center, the Equity company, in Munster, Ind., said Thursday it will stage the world premiere of a new musical based on the TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies."Â &n…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'Double Trouble' at Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago at Stage 773 ★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'Double Trouble' at Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago at Stage 773 ★ …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:28PM[SHARE]There will come a day when regional theaters — and then colleges and even high schools — will be fighting over the rights to "Wicked." But there is no evidence that day is coming…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The all-volunteer Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee released its slate of nominations Wednesday for the Equity wing of its long-running recognition program honoring what it sees as the best …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:56AM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2013
When you ask an audience to spend some quality time with a horrific type of person — like, say, a child molester or the white supremacist whose whining and bile take up a good portion …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "A Raisin in the Sun" at Timeline Theatre ★★★★ ...Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" is, surely, the greatest Chicago play. It ripples with th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2013
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has, when you think about it, been a remarkably good sport when it comes to "The Book of Mormon."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Second City are joining forces to stage a public tribute to Bernie Sahlins, the late co-founder of The Second City. The event, to contain performances and…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Many an experienced New York producer has taken a look at the Mercury Theater, located in the heart of Chicago's Southport Avenue corridor but bereft of fly space and wing space, and declare…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Next to Normal" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Next to Normal" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★ …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2013
Emily Graslie, the first chief curiosity correspondent at the Field Museum, has been furiously filing YouTube videos about precisely what goes on behind those grand doors. As Steve Johnson r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:56PM[SHARE]The legendrary singer Paul Simon showed up unannounced Thursday at the Second City mainstage in Chicago and then, as is traditional for visiting celebrities, took to the stage during the pos…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: '9 to 5, The Musical' at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: '9 to 5, The Musical' at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★…
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