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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Grand singing, grand setting make for a family-friendly holiday hit in Aurora
Everyone's first "Annie" should be at a venerable venue like the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, which opened for …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:28PM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2012
House's original 'Nutcracker' can save a family at Christmas
Contrary to their reputation in the business, holiday shows actually are high-stakes affairs. It's one thing to take a risk on y…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:09PM[SHARE]When your architect has the star wattage of Jeanne Gang, it's not easy to remain in the "quiet stage" of a major fundraising campaign for a new building. Not when speculative visual notions …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Chicago has a plethora of holiday shows each and every year — and I’ll be reviewing enough of them over the next couple of weeks to put Rudolph in rehab. But based on many years …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:33PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter" at Next Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter" at Next Theatre ★★★ ... Few shows that open…
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THEATER REVIEW: "The Gifts of the Magi" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★
Little holiday musicals are golden at this time of year. And Mark St. Germain and Randy Courts' adaptation…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:46PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
Circle Theatre, a fixture in the Western suburbs for two decades, announced Monday night that it is giving up its home in Oak Park and joining the happy band of itinerant, non-Equity theater…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:25PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience" at the Broadway Playhouse and Harris Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Exp…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: 'James Joyce's The Dead' 2-1/2 stars; through Dec. 9 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.; 1 hour, 45 minutes; tickets: $45-$65 at 773-753-4472 or courttheatre.org
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:19PM[SHARE]Sharper singing, acting mark touring production
Various old "Les Miserables" hands — and there are now many of us who've seen this great musical maybe 25 times over 25 years — …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:28PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theatre announced Sunday night the shows it will present in the first half of 2013, as part of its World Stages series of global work, much presented in partnership with …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:03PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2012
In William Shakespeare's "Othello," an important general finds himself the victim of a little scheme, concocted by a disgruntled subordinate, to bring him down by making him jealous. It's a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2012
Well, sing hallelujah for a new, fresh, first-class Equity tour, which is about as rare these days as murder witnesses hiding out in convents when the sisters are just dying to be taught to …
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THEATER REVIEW: "My One and Only" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "My One and Only" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★½ ...…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:05PM[SHARE]"Hellcab," playwright Will Kern's black comedy about a hellish winter day in the life of a cipherlike Chicago cabby, is not, let us stipulate upfront, the aesthetic equal of "American Buffal…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:56PM[SHARE]The Drury Lane Oakbrook has postponed Thursday's opening night of its production of "Singin' in the Rain," due to a knee injury to Sean Palmer, the star of director Bill Jenkins' production.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "The Burnt Part Boys" by the Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Burnt Part Boys" by the Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★&…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PM[SHARE]NEW YORK — There are 400 possible permutations of endings for Rupert Holmes' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the overachieving 1985 musical that was popular for a decade or so, but then …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:49PM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2012
Gary Griffin with direct a new play called "Appropriate" at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and then at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2012
The bar for what qualified as "odd" in 1965, we so easily forget, was not so high. A couple of unrelated men living together qualified — especially if one of them actually liked to dus…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:45PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2012
The Riverfront Theater, the Chicago Tribune Media Group's tented venue located at the newspaper's printing plant, is closing down until the spring.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:02PM[SHARE]"Hello, Chicago," said the city's newly elected hometown president, speaking to ecstatic Grant Park celebrants four years ago this week amid a backdrop of iconic Midwestern skyscrapers, shim…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2012
NEW YORK — The Chicago cast of the satirical musical "The Book of Mormon" will feature Nic Rouleau, the current star of the Broadway company, in the central role of Elder Price, along …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:50PM[SHARE]NEW YORK — Director James Lapine's much-anticipated revival of "Annie," which opened here Thursday night, was supposed to freshen up (and apply some new grit) to the famous red-headed …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:11PM[SHARE]Chicago Shakespeare Theater said Thursday that it has added a production to its World's Stage series of international touring productions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 7, 2012
One morning on a trip to Las Vegas, I was swimming in the pool. I looked up from the water and was startled to see that almost every woman in every lounger was reading exactly the same book:…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:46PM[SHARE]Around 8:30 p.m. on CBS, Scott Pelley announced that the network had called Wisconsin for President Barack Obama. Pelley, the best anchor of the election night broadcasts, immediately signal…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:38AM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2012
Sometimes in the theater, you're hit with a sudden awareness of what lies ahead. Something like that happened to me Sunday at the Den Theatre on Milwaukee Avenue, about halfway through the s…
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Spotlight on human feats for 'Dragons'
Ever since David Carradine played a warrior monk on the run in that 1970s TV classic "Kung Fu," the Shaolin Warriors of the Henan province in China ha…
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