Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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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THEATER REVIEW: "Other Desert Cities" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Other Desert Cities" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★ ... Any writer knows th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:02PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "The Aliens" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Aliens" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★ ... Annie Baker's sweet and beautiful l…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:02PM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2013
NEW YORK — Here on W. 47th Street, in a fascinating play about early-onset dementia, or maybe it's brain cancer, or maybe it's just some non-specific traumatic disorder that flowed fro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:55PM[SHARE]A new era began with at the Mercury Theater Sunday afternoon, when the former rental venue in the heart of the Southport Avenue retail strip launched a year-round series of its own home-made…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "Skylight" (3 stars) through Feb. 10 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.; running time: 2 hours, 35 minutes; tickets: $45-$65 at 773-753-4472 or courttheatre.org
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:34PM[SHARE]Notwithstanding the considerable charms of librarians — named Marian and otherwise — it's the kid who holds the emotional keys to "The Music Man," the masterful Meredith Willson …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
In the movie "Flight," for which Denzel Washington scored an Oscar nomination, a brilliant pilot successfully lands a catastrophically damaged plane, saving scores of lives, even though this…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:56PM[SHARE]John R. Powers, the author of the made-in-Chicago hit "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" died early Thursday morning. He was 67.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:30PM[SHARE]NEW YORK — As Tennessee Williams understood better than almost any other scribe who ever stared down a typewriter, anger and need are not the same thing. In a lousy marriage — su…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2013
When playwright Terence Rattigan's beautiful and long-neglected "Flare Path" was first performed in London in 1942, Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" was all the rage. To many Americans, Coward …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:08PM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2013
The Broadway stars Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggart have been added to the previously announced cast of "Big Fish," the new Broadway musical based on the Tim Burton movie. "Big Fish" is sl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2013
"Side Effects May Include …," the new solo comedy from the "Seinfeld" writer Marc Jaffe and playwright Eric Coble, bills itself as a play about Parkinson's disease. By Act 2, it feels …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2013
When watching "Pygmalion," it's never easy to get "My Fair Lady" our of your head. Alan Jay Lerner took his lyrical ideas right from the George Bernard Shaw verbiage in most instances, which…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:15PM[SHARE]A casino is surely coming to Chicago. Sooner rather than later, the lure of so much new revenue flowing into needy city and state coffers, and the prospect of so many badly needed jobs, will…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2013
The long-expected official annnouncement has arrived: "Hit the Wall," the new drama about the Stonewall Riots penned by the young Chicago playwright Ike Holter is headed to the Barrow Street…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:43PM[SHARE]The Den Theatre's hit production of Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" announced Thursday that it will extend for two additional weeks through Feb. 3. Many performances of the three-character dram…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Hershey Felder, the piano-playing solo performer with a formidable following in Chicago, is returning to the mainstage of the Royal George Theatre with a new show based not on a classical co…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:10PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2013
When the Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced its production of "The Motherf***er with the Hat," it sure sounded very much like a reprise of the 2011 Broadway production. The director, ense…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 6, 2013
The Off-Broadway play 'Freud's Last Session,' imagining the men conversing, comes to Los Angeles in hopes of getting more theatergoers to join the chat.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 5, 2013
The Off-Broadway play 'Freud's Last Session,' imagining the men conversing, comes to Los Angeles in hopes of getting more theatergoers to join the chat."If the whole universe had no meaning,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2013
With Scrooge back under wraps, it's time for the 2013 winter theater season to begin in earnest. There's an especially strong slate of classical works opening between now and the end of Marc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:01PM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2012
New biography sheds light on Thornton Wilder, the influence of his childhood and his love of Chicago
striver Amos Parker Wilder, had a sophisticated and peripatetic, if perennially impecuni…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 27, 2012
For Chicago stage director Rachel Rockwell, 2012 began with the brood of Capt. von Trapp and ended with the little orphan girls of "Annie."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 23, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Glass Menagerie' 4 stars; through Jan. 20 at Mary-Arrchie Theatre, 735 W. Sheridan Road; running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes; tickets: $15-$25 at 773-871-0442 or maryarrch…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:16PM[SHARE]It's tough to go wrong with "Oliver" at the holidays. You've got tousled-haired urchins, pathos, Fagin, melodrama and power ballads — orchestrated with a whiff of the sounds of Dusty S…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:42PM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2012
Trio's own history adds to reflective performances
The last time the trio of Si Osborne, Lia D. Mortensen and Brad Armacost performed Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" in Chicago, they all were …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2012
"The Book of Mormon" pulled down a whopping $1,493,961 in its first full week of sold-out performances at the Bank of America Theatre, breaking the house record for that Loop venue.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:02PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "The Book of Mormon" at the Bank of America Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Book of Mormon" at the Bank of America Theatre ★★★ …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "War Horse" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "War Horse" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★★ ... Joey, the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2012
"Big Fish," the Broadway musical (book by John August and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa) based on the fantastical Tim Burton movie, has announced the dates for its pre-New York engagement…
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