Monday, June 24, 2013
Goodman artistic director is to helm Beth Henley's play"The Jacksonian" at the New Group in the fall, the New York-based company said Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PM[SHARE]Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls is to helm playwright Beth Henley's play "The Jacksonian" at the New Group in the fall, the New York-based theater company said Monday. &n…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PM[SHARE]The touring production of "Ghost The Musical," a show that did reasonably well in London's West End and then came and went quickly on Broadway after being savaged by critics, is coming to Ch…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Clown Car Named Desire' ★ ★ ★ ★
"I see people out front," observes the sad-eyed man at the Second City e.t.c., "just crying." &nb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:20PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: 'A Clown Car Named Desire' ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Clown Car Named Desire' ★★★★ ... "I see people out front," observes the sa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:20PM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2013
A hilarious relic, the cheerfully sexist French farce "Boeing-Boeing" involves a Paris-based lothario who concocts a scheme to live with three gorgeous stewardesses from three of the finer i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: 'Boeing-Boeing' at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'Boeing-Boeing' at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½ ... A hilarious relic, the cheerfully sexis…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]Over eight years as Tony Soprano on The Sopranos James Gandolfini created a character so astonishingly empathetic, the travails of organized crime easily became a metaphor for the quotidian …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]The 12-million viewers who tuned into the final episode of "The Sopranos" in 2007 thought there was a good chance Tony Soprano would get whacked. There was an irrefutable logic to such a den…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
The Dramatists Guild of America, the trade organization for playwrights, is to hold its annual conference in Chicago in August, bringing to town such theatrical luminaries as (among other…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:20PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" at Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Buddy" at Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★ ...Since "Buddy: The Buddy Holly S…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
"Mine," the very arresting and intensely personal new play by Laura Marks at the Gift Theatre, begins with a young woman having a baby at home and takes place entirely during the next few we…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:59PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Mine," the very arresting and intensely personal new play by Laura Marks at the Gift Theatre, begins with a young woman having a baby at home.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:59PM[SHARE]The holiday attraction at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place will be a show with origins at First Stage, an Equity children's theater in Milwaukee.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:43AM[SHARE]Play piercingly contrasts social mores a half-century apart
Around the moment of Chicago's gay-pride parade and festival in 2011, About Face Theatre enjoyed a big hit with Phillip Dawkins' …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]The TBS Just for Laughs comedy festival has wrapped for another summer in Chicago, having played out in venues changing from the Chicago Theatre to Stage 773. Here are reviews from select sh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
The last time Bill Maher headlined at the Chicago Theatre, he had Ann Coulter along for, forgive me, balance. That, it felt, was a rivalry born in mutual expediency, a mock political debate …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:57PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't No Crying the Blues (In the Memory of Howlin' Wolf)" at Black Ensemble Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't No Crying the Blues (In the Memory of Howl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:12PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "I need some ladies up here," declared Howlin' Wolf, as channeled through Rick Stone, at Black Ensemble Theatre on Sunday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:12PM[SHARE]The national tour of the Broadway hit "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to "Peter Pan" aimed mostly at adults, will stop through Chicago for two weeks next April at the Bank of America …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2013
Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, the co-founder and former owner of Second City and a crucial and essential innovator in the field of American comedy, died peacefully Sunday at his home, his wife J…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:19PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Cole Porter Songbook' at Theo Ubique Theatre Company ★★★½
Vocal quality really matters at the Theo Ubique Theatre Company, the shabby-chic venue for …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:04PM[SHARE]Rudyard Kipling hated Chicago. "It holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta," wrote the man whom George Orwell dubbed "the prop…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'West Side Story' at the Oriental Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'West Side Story' at the Oriental Theatre ★★★ ... Four years now have passe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Three Musketeers' at Lifeline Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Three Musketeers' at Lifeline Theatre ★★½ ... Before you can mouth "all for…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:49PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
On a stunning Tony Awards night for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, whose revival of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” proved triumphant in more categories than expected, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
Should a city pay its debts with works of art?
Late last month, the Detroit Free Press ran a major article on a problem that seems unthinkable: the likelihood of the precious artworks in th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:12PM[SHARE]"I've spent my formative years at 'Saturday Night Live' doing 'Weekend Update' while sitting behind a desk," said Seth Meyers in a recent interview. "But in my new job, I think there might b…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:44PM[SHARE]Ever since the first national TV broadcast in 1967 of the Tony Awards, then its 21st year, a delicate dance has been tapped out between the handing out of trophies for artistic theatrical wo…
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