Thursday, February 14, 2013
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. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:37AM[SHARE]Jonathan Munby's visually thrilling, exciting and richly wrought production of "Julius Caesar" — which opened Wednesday night and features everything from a flash mob to a hot-dog stan…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Gene Weygandt will star as P. T. Barnum in the Mercury Theatre's upcoming production of the musical "Barnum," the Mercury has announced. Also starring: Corey Goodrich and Summer Naomi Smart.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' at Water Tower Water Works
Can a talking Bengal tiger in the Baghdad zoo serve as both a narrator and a ghost?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:59PM[SHARE]"Old Jews Telling Jokes," the Off-Broadway celebration of Jewish comedy penned by the president of Random House Studio and the former public editor of the New York Times, is to have a ded…
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Friday, February 8, 2013
Real story of Columbine is told as survivors' views unfold onstage -- and in audience
You could tell the people from the Columbine community by how they reacted to the many gunshots in the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
When an artist is telling a story about a shooting that killed children in a school, a very real shooting like the one that forever scarred the soul of Columbine High School in Littleton, Co…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2013
"Disconnect," the aptly named new play by Anupama Chandrasekhar at the Victory Gardens Theater, is set in a collection agency in Chennai, India, where smart, ambitious and energetic young In…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:52PM[SHARE]"Shrek The Musical" is to be Chicago Shakespeare Theater's summer musical on Navy Pier, and Rachel Rockwell is to direct.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:52AM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: Sunset Boulevard at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: Sunset Boulevard at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½ ... Never the subtlest of mega-musicals,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:04PM[SHARE]Caught in a twilight realm among historical drama, melodrama and magic realism, playwright Reginald Edmund's "Southbridge" doesn't quite provide a structure sturdy enough to hold all its nar…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 3, 2013
Can "The Birthday Party" be celebrated in a wide-open space? It depends, surely, on the intent of the event. As the history of the 20th century teaches us, and as the Nobel laureate Harold P…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:35PM[SHARE]When John Mackey, the maverick co-chief executive of Whole Foods, first criticized President Barack Obama's proposed health care law in a 2009 Wall Street Journal article, there was an immed…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:01PM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2013
The hit Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" is coming back in the late spring.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Peter Pan" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Peter Pan" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★ ... Having played Peter Pan…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Sweet Charity" at Writers' Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Sweet Charity" at Writers' Theatre ★★★ ... Tiffany Topol has about everything yo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PM[SHARE]In these free, privileged United States, the phrase "Sex in the City" conjures up a premium-cable experience of hot nights, cool fashion, heavy appetizers and relationship angst so light it …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Rachel Rockwell, the Chicago director whose career has flourished at such musical theaters as the Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace and the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, is to make her Goodman T…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Luther" at Steep Theatre in Chicago ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Luther" at Steep Theatre in Chicago ★★ ... An intensely conceptual play like "Luther" relies…
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Profiles Theatre has postponed the opening of its latest production, "The Dream of the Burning Boy." At this juncture, all scheduled performances of the play by West Read have been cancelled.
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THEATER REVIEW: "The Magnificents" at House Theatre Chicago ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Magnificents" at House Theatre Chicago ★★½
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whipping Man" (3.5 stars) through Feb. 24 at North Shore Center for the Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes; tickets: $25-$72 at 847-673-6…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:02PM[SHARE]Friday, January 25, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West" at TimeLine Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West" at TimeLine …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:26PM[SHARE]Why wander when potential riches are just ahead to the south?
At first glance, the Chicago Cultural Mile ("Where Culture & Commerce Meet") resembles nothing so much as a gerrymandered congr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre anounced Thursday that is has added two of its longtime collaborators, Anthony Fleming III and Kevin Douglas, to its ensemble of artists. Both have acted frequ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:45PM[SHARE]At the start — the rough start — of the Marriott Theatre's new revue of the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, entitled, with justification, "Now & Forever," the throbbing electronic …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2013
David Cromer, the longtime Chicago director whose New York career was launched after his production of “Our Town” (starring himself as Stage Manager) is returning to Chicago to a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Bud, Not Buddy" by the Chicago Children's Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Bud, Not Buddy" by the Chicago Children's Theatre ★★½ ... If anyone cal…
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