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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:44PM[SHARE]BROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
BROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre ... Even as the U.S. Supreme Court debates what is marriage, the se…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★½ ... Stephen A…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:27PM[SHARE]Court Theatre, the longstanding Equity company in residence at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park, will stage the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's Broadway play about Martin Luther King…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dream of the Burning Boy" at Profiles Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dream of the Burning Boy" at Profiles Theatre ★★½ ... Most big high…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:55PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2013
CLAVERING, England — In this rural Essex village stands The Cricketers, the once-quiet pub that launched the career of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who first cooked in his pare…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:05PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Pedro Paramo" by Teatro Buendia of Havana and the Goodman Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Pedro Paramo" by Teatro Buendia of Havana and the Goodman Theatre a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:17AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2013
Telling stories for 'Big Fish,' the screen-to-stage musical having its pre-Broadway tryouts in Chicago
NEW YORK — A man in a Manhattan rehearsal room asks a young boy a question: "No …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:58PM[SHARE]Even for fans for such prior endeavors as "The Bomb-itty of Errors" and "Funk it Up About Nothin'," a hip-hop version of "Othello" sounded like a stretch for the Q Brothers, that bizarre pai…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
"Hero," the new musical about a struggling comic-book artist that premiered at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, is to get a second production at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:40PM[SHARE]BROADWAY REVIEW: "Hands on a Hardbody"
BROADWAY REVIEW: "Hands on a Hardbody" ... Despite the salacious title, the hardbody at the core of the newest Broadway musical has no pulse. It's a b…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PM[SHARE]Production filled with glorious excess without being excessive
With their Equity cards tucked inside their girdles, thank God, and all of Tim Chappel and Lizzie Gardiner's Tony Award-winnin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
NEW YORK — Early in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the new Richard Greenberg adaptation of the 1958 Truman Capote novella, Emilia Clarke's Holly Golightly climbs into bed with Fred, our nar…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Hershey Felder, currently appearing in "An American Story" at the Royal George Theatre, will adapt, direct and produce the next production at that venue. But he will not perform. The pianist…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:38PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
Falls goes all-in with his dark, new production of Shakespeare
THEATER REVIEW: "Measure for Measure" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ ... Director Robert Falls' arresting,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:13PM[SHARE]You may well think you have seen David Auburn's "Proof," the story of a single, 25-year-old Hyde Park woman grieving for the mathematically brilliant father who has left her bereft. The Broa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]The Hypocrites' cheeky production of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance," a two-time hit in Chicago and also at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass, h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
Told by a pair of young Irishmen appearing as "40-quid-a-day" extras in a Hollywood movie, one of the anecdotes in Marie Jones' "Stones In His Pockets" involves Hugh Grant and a prostitute. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:23PM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Frank Wildhorn's "Jekyll & Hyde" was never a subtle night of theater — more of a guilty, sexy pleasure, really, with high-wattage, hook-heavy power ballads that might not have had much…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Kate Fry will star as Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" as part of the 2013-14 season at Writers' Theatre Chicago. Kimberly Senior will direct the new production of the famously passionate drama…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Chicago's TimeLine Theatre has announced it will produce Lorraine Hansberry's classic Chicago play, "A Raisin in the Sun" (directed by Ron OJ Parson), and the Marc Blitzstein musical "Jun…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:17PM[SHARE]The last time you could see a significant production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love" in Chicago was more than 20 years ago, when a touring company played the old Civic Theatre, no…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:59PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "An American Story for Actor and Orchestra" at the Royal George Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "An American Story for Actor and Orchestra" by Hershey Felder at t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PM[SHARE]For the past two decades, a touring show from the Cirque du Soleil has typically arrived in Chicago every other year. The most recent production was "Ovo" in 2011, performed in the parking l…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:16PM[SHARE]Rhea Perlman, the actress best known for playing Carla on the NBC comedy "Cheers," is to star in a show at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie this spring.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:27PM[SHARE]The Barrow Street Theatre is so close to the Stonewall Inn, where gay Americans famously fought back in 1969, you could carry over your Stella to the theater without the beer losing any of i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2013
"Fiddler on the Roof" is among the greatest Broadway musicals for any number of reasons: a score without a single dud; rich, sturdy, funny characters who somehow reward with each revisit; a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim's "Road Show" is coming back to Chicago, where it once was "Bounce." And it'll share a season on Navy Pier with "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Henry V," "The Merry Wives of Windsor"…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:16PM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2013
You can imagine the scene in thousands of family rooms: "Mom and Dad, I want to major in comedy." Silence. "Comedy? Not on our dime, you don't."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
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