Thursday, March 7, 2013
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THEATER REVIEW: "How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence" by Steppenwolf for Young Adults ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence" by Stepp…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:19PM[SHARE]The Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced its 2013-14 season, a slate that features the first stage appearance by ensemble member Joan Allen in more than 20 years as well as a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:35PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
Citing the need for financial responsibility and a desire to conserve resources for the 40th anniversary season, Victory Gardens Theater artistic director Chay Yew announced Monday that the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:54PM[SHARE]Had Evan Linder not already penned a Chicago-and-New York hit titled "5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche," you might say he'd come up with an unusual title with "The Bear Suit of Happiness." But Lin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2013
The provenance of "Cinderella" is long ago and far away — she's been around at least since the 17th century in written form, and some date her all the way to classical antiquity.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:20PM[SHARE]Buzz22 Chicago production shines in annual 3-play series
You'd easily think that "She Kills Monsters" the clever, funny, moving, lively and delightfully geeky standout at this year's Garage…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:20PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2013
Remember what Molly Ivins said: 'Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful'
Oscar hosts are supposed to be irreverent and edgy, ot…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Everything Is Illuminated" by Next Theatre at Noyes Cultural Center ★★★½
You've doubtless pondered the role that chance plays in life -- who wins, who …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:04PM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre announced its 2013-14 season Wednesday, a slate that includes a new play by Rebecca Gilman, a blues-infused Cheryl L. West drama about Pullman porters, Mary Zimmerman's "…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The City & The City" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The City & The City" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½ ... Although there surely is a whod…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:05PM[SHARE]William Petersen, the actor with longtime roots on the Chicago stage, is to appear this summer at the Steppenwolf Theatre in a two-person show about a teenager and her reculsive uncle in Cos…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:51PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★ ... Most heroes do not win their loves by teasing t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "From Doo Wop to Hip Hop at Black Ensemble Theater" ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "From Doo Wop to Hip Hop at Black Ensemble Theater" ★★★
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:12PM[SHARE]Northlight Theatre is announcing part of its 2013-14 season, including a new production of Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," the Chicago-area premiere of "4000 Miles" by Amy Herzog and a newÂ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:51PM[SHARE]Chicago's American Theater Company has announced a significant extension its hit production of "Columbinus," the work about the Columbine High School shootings, and will postpone its planned…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:15PM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2013
If people do not feel safe, the cultural jewels of the city are in jeopardy
A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a br…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
If you set out to re-create the ambience of The Shrine, the feverishly infamous Lagos music venue ruled by the Nigerian icon, Afrobeat guru and political revolutionary Fela Anikulapo Kuti, l…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Cadre" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Cadre" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½ ... The voice of Nelson Mandela crackles …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:27PM[SHARE]Nora Dunn, a prominant former cast member of "Saturday Night Live," is to premiere a new one-woman show at Theatre Wit in Chicago this summer.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology" by Collaboraction Theatre Company ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology" by Collaboraction Theatre C…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PM[SHARE]The new touring production of "Les Miserables," which was a huge hit in Chicago this fall, is headed back to Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh announced Tuesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:04PM[SHARE]"To Master the Art," William Brown and Doug Frew's biographical drama about the life and work of the famed culinary icon Julia Child, is to have a reprise commercial engagement at the Broadw…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2013
The Broadway musical "Wicked," which ran for more than three-and-a-half years in a dedicated Chicago production from 2005 to 2009, is making another return visit to the city that so embraced…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 16, 2013
Ex-champ has an ability to see the man he once was as a character, wholly separate from the man he now has become
At one point in his touring one-man show, Mike Tyson, the ear-biter, convic…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:05AM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2013
After I pointed out that the Goodman Theatre production of Christopher Shinn's "Teddy Ferrara" contains a goodly amount of onstage groping, poking and unbuttoning, a fevered member of the Tw…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
Redmoon Theatre, the 23-year-old Chicago performance, spectacle and party-creation company, said Thursday that it is vacating its longtime "Redmoon Central" headquarters in the West Lo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:02PM[SHARE]The hit Theo Ubique production of "Smokey Joe's Cafe,' the revue of the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, is to have a commercial transfer to the Royal George Theatre's cabaret space. …
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