Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The Annoyance Theatre, a venerable Chicago comedy theater, is on the move. Jennifer Estlin, the theater's owner and executive producer, said Wednesday that it will exit its Uptown digs on th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:43AM[SHARE]Bill Maher, Seth Meyers and Bob Newhart are among the old school-new school headliners of TBS Just for Laughs Chicago, the Chicago franchise of the Montreal-based comedy festival. It's slate…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" at the Royal George Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Pianist of Willesden Lane" at the Royal George Theatre ★a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:02PM[SHARE]Northlight Theatre will produce the Midwest premiere of "Detroit '67," the Skokie-based theater said on Tuesday. Penned by Dominique Morisseau and set in the Motor City during the Motown era…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:18PM[SHARE]At a time when many other Chicago have reduced the number of new shows in their seasons, Profiles Theatre has bucked the trend by announcing six plays, five of which are Midwest premieres, a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:51PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Happiest Song Plays Last" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Happiest Song Plays Last" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★Â…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]At one point in "Still Alice," the new show at the Lookingglass Theatre based on the novel by Lisa Genova about the emotionally devastating subject of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, a moth…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:06PM[SHARE]The Chicago Children's Theatre will reprise its production of the Broadway musical "A Year with Frog and Toad" as part of a 2013-14 season made up of just one major new production. &nbs…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2013
Porchlight Music Theatre, the small Equity company specializing in "Chicago-style" musicals has announced its 2013-14 season with a distinctly retro flare.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 20, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Big Fish" at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Big Fish" at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago ★★★ ... Time surely is ri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Untitled Feminist Show" by Young Jean Lee's Theater Company at the MCA Stage ★★★ݡ
THEATER REVIEW: "Untitled Feminist Show" by Young Jean Lee's Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:13PM[SHARE]In 2011, Nick Bilton of The New York Times asked Walter Isaacson, the biographer of Steve Jobs, an interesting question: "Did he try to control what you wrote in the book?" …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
Chicago's About Face Theatre has hired Andrew Volkoff, who spend five years as associate artistic director of the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts, as its new artistic director.&nbs…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Elephant & The Whale" by Chicago Children's Theatre ★★ ... Elephants are fabulous beasts. The great day I saw a whale jump from the water lives with me still…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:11PM[SHARE]Some things have happened to Johnny, Tunny and St. Jimmy since "American Idiot" was last in Chicago in February 2012. The Equity actors who were playing those roles in the first national tou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:38PM[SHARE]The A Red Orchid Theatre production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico," which is to star longtime collaborators Michael Shannon and Guy Van Swearingen, has been pushed back several weeks. Inst…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whale" at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whale" at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★ ... Charlie is the dy…
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THEATER REVIEW: "In a Garden" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "In a Garden" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★ ... There are architects who make perfectly decent …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:04PM[SHARE]Ambitious, biblically inspired production examines limits and virtues of tragedy
THEATER REVIEW: 'Head of Passes' (3 stars) through June 9 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
NEW YORK — Berry Gordy, the man who discovered Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells (and on and on), was a peerless record producer when it came to handp…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Oliver" at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Oliver" at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½ ... Where y…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
"Hit the Wall," the show about the Stonewall Riots that began with the emergent Chicago theater company called The Inconvenience, is to end its run at the Barrow Street Theatre earlier than …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2013
NEW YORK - No smart kid likes condescension. And any halfway clever mum or dad quickly figures out that the way to get a willful child, and they must all be willful, to love something is to …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PM[SHARE]You might recall the Elvis Costello lyric in "Tramp the Dirt Down," referencing Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who died Monday: "I'll stand on your grave and tramp the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "A Permanent Image" by LiveWire Chicago at the Storefront Theater ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "A Permanent Image" by LiveWire Chicago at the Storefront Theater…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:21PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Let Them Eat Chaos" at Second City ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Let Them Eat Chaos" at Second City ★★★ ... Ross Bryant, the decidedly thrilling …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:51PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Barnum" at the Mercury Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Barnum" at the Mercury Theater ★★★ ... "Barnum," the 1980 musical about that great s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
There is something very unusual about Nora Ephron's bio in the Playbill for her new play, "Lucky Guy," a piece about famed tabloid newspaperman Mike McAlary, which opened Monday night on Bro…
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