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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PM[SHARE]Kristin Larsen, the longtime executive director of the non-profit Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, has resigned her position at the small Equity company, which produces at the Greenhouse Theatre…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:31PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2012
Silvio Marchetti, who has silver hair and a dry sense of humor most atypical for an attache, tells a story about meeting the late Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, in the mid-1980s. March…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 16, 2012
Holiday chestnut has a refreshingly contemporary feel
At one point in the touring version of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, a show that prides itself on a legacy that dates back to t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2012
The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:27PM[SHARE]Profiles Theatre is to stage the world premiere of Neil LaBute's brand new stage version of the movie "In the Company of Men." The new work is based on his screenplay for the 1997 movie.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:23PM[SHARE]"Fela!," the Broadway musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti, is returning to Chicago for a week in February. Yet more surprisingly, the Arie Crown Theater, which has been on ice…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:23PM[SHARE]'Tis the season for sucking up at company holiday parties — or, as Frank, the central character in David Ives' "The School for Lies" would put it, this is prime time, baby, for "two-fa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Syesha Mercado, a finalist on the "American Idol" talent show, has taken over the featured role of Nabulungi in the Chicago production of "The Book of Mormon," representatives of the show ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:21PM[SHARE]Team Starkid, the hugely popular performance company known for its internet-based musical parodies and for its popular live tours, is to produce a new prime-time show at Chicago's Second Cit…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2012
While most of her friends at Highland Park High School were still thinking of where they were going to study, Elana Ernst Silverstein already was booking the national tour of one of Broadway…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:04PM[SHARE]The much-anticipated Chicago company of the hit Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" has its first preview performance tonight at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 9, 2012
NEW YORK— Early in "Glengarry Glen Ross," as David Mamet brilliantly employs the scene-blackout-scene rhythm he learned sweeping floors at Chicago's Second City cabaret, Shelly can't-c…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:16AM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2012
COMEDY REVIEW: Jeff Garlin in "Closer Than I Appear" at the Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★
COMEDY REVIEW: Jeff Garlin in "Closer Than I Appear" at the Steppenwolf Theatre ★…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2012
They were lighting the tree the other night at Rockefeller Center in New York. Streets were crowded with revelers headed out for a skate on the famous ice rink, where for $300 during the hol…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:30AM[SHARE]Performance could have used a bit of a twist
So what maketh an excellent Grinch? Well, take one part Harvey Fierstein, add one part Christopher Walken, shake the whole with just a macabre s…
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "We Three Lizas" by About Face Theatre in the Steppenwolf Garage ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "We Three Lizas" by About Face Theatre in the Steppenwolf Garage ★ύ…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:52PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Cinderella" at the Broadway Playhouse ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Cinderella" at the Broadway Playhouse ★½ ... With some saying a variant of her story dates all t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:51PM[SHARE]Strawdog Theatre Company, a long-lived storefront operation on Chiicago's North Side, has announced a change in artistic director.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "The Mikado" by The Hypocrites ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Mikado" by The Hypocrites ★★★★ For its outrageously enjoyable and i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:31PM[SHARE]When E.L. James' smutty "Fifty Shades of Grey" first became red-hot, its publication was a huge boon for electronic readers like the Nook and the Kindle. Apparently, a lot more women wanted …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 2, 2012
You certainly could not accuse Kyle DeSantis, the producer of the Drury Lane Oakbrook's huge new production of "Singin' in the Rain" of failing to deliver the wet stuff — as required f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:15PM[SHARE]— The Weathermen and their “Days of Rage” in 1969 emerged from the dimly remembered past during the 2008 presidential campaign when fevered attempts were made by Republican…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:23PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2012
The unruly child from 'South Park' creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker arrives at the Bank of America Theatre this month. Are audiences prepared?
CULVER CITY, Calif. — It's 4:30 p.m. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "The Letters" at Writers' Theatre at Books on Vernon in Glencoe ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Letters" at Writers' Theatre at Books on Vernon in Glencoe …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:10PM[SHARE]NEW YORKÂ — At this juncture in what must at times be a very surreal life, Katie Holmes, a tabloid staple and yet a favorite daughter of Toledo, Ohio, now finds herself on Broadway i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "Failure: A Love Story" at the Victory Gardens Theater ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Failure: A Love Story" at the Victory Gardens Theater ★★ ... Philip Dawkin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:38PM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2012
George Bernard Shaw — a natural provocateur who constantly was gnawing over his level of comfort with the demands of the public — divided the published collections of his early d…
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