Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, which operates in the No Exit Cafe in Rogers Park, said Tuesday it will stage Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Aspects of Love" as part of its 2012-13 season. Fred Anz…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:14PM[SHARE]For the first time in its history, Steep Theatre is to move one of its hit productions from its own home to a larger venue.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:51PM[SHARE]Apparently confronted by a plethora of riches in the past season of Chicago theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee offered up not the traditional four or five nominees one finds at t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2012
In the first instance, it was tattoos that began Doriane Miller's second career as an artist. That's not to say this sober-seeming South Side physician suddenly became interested in colored …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 12, 2012
So what do you want from your Don Quixote? The standard model at regional light-opera companies is a virile traveling baritone, replete with a bravura macho personality to match his massive …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:53PM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
At one point in "The Great American Trailer Park Musical," a campy off-Broadway spoof with music and lyrics by David Nehls and a book by Betsy Kelso, the crazed ex-boyfriend of a stripper-on…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PM[SHARE]I just saw five different productions of five different plays by William Shakespeare inside a single week. They were in three different cities — Chicago, Spring Green, Wis., and Stratf…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has announced its 2013 season of shows. The slate begins in January with the revue “Now & Forever: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber” (whi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:58PM[SHARE]It's time, dear reader, to raise a glass to Mick Napier, improv queen Susan Messing, wild Joe Bill, hard-toiling Jennifer Estlin, restless Mark Sutton and the Annoyance Theatre, which have, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:14PM[SHARE]Ricardo Gutierrez, a longtime actor and director in Chicago, is to take over as artistic director of Teatro Vista, one of Chicago's leading Latino theater companies, in March.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Bailiwick Chicago, Buzz22 Chicago and Theatre Seven of Chicago will have all shows in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's annual Garage Rep Rep repertory series, slated to begin in February.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:26PM[SHARE]The Chicago production of Mark St. Germain's "Freud's Last Session," which had been expected to close at the end of the summer, is to play through Nov. 11 at the Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Sou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:18PM[SHARE]Jason Daniely, who appeared on Broadway in "Candide," "Curtains" and as a replacement cast member in "Next to Normal," will star in Gary Griffin's upcoming Chicago Shakespeare Theater produc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Savvy longtime stars like Cathy Rigby know how to confront perception problems head-on. After belting out a number from "Peter Pan" for the umpteenth time, the diminutive celebrity didn't ex…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:57PM[SHARE]Marvin Hamlisch, the composer of"A Chorus Line," died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 68, the Associated Press has reported. The news agency referenced a brief illness but gave no detai…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:25AM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2012
— Of all of William Shakespeare's plays, "Henry V" is the drama most often interpreted as patriotically British. In the 1944 film version, Laurence Olivier used the young king's inspir…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2012
STRATFORD, Ontario — At the age of 82 and with his acting chops and handsome looks singularly unscathed, Christopher Plummer has earned the right to talk of death. If a man can fight b…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
As jobs move to the city from the suburbs, arts funding needs to remain a regional priority
In the years leading up to Millennium Park's completion in 2004, philanthropist John Bryan led fu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2012
The Milwuaukee Repertory Theatre announced Thursday that it has created a new large group of more losely affiliated associate artists, essentially replacements for what was one of the last r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "Richard III," "Twelfth Night" and "Skylight" at American Players Theatre
The famously stoic patrons at the American Players Theatre, where Shakespeare plays al fresco, are …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:52PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare in the Parks ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare in the Parks ★★ ... Here is a Shake…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:35PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2012
At United Center, awesome creatures but show a bit shy on humanity
The massive, high-concept new arena attraction known — more for marketing than artistic purposes — as "How to…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:28PM[SHARE]You should brace yourself for the Joe Paterno Story. Hollywood is quiet now, if not so much in deference to the convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky's victims as to the fear of being perceived…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2012
A commercial show — with Broadway aspirations — inspired by the life and work of the late comedian Richard Pryor is to be staged this fall at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:20PM[SHARE]The famed John Singer Sargent portrait of the actor Joseph Jefferson III, currently owned by the financially strapped Players Club of New York, is on the block, New York Post columnist Micha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dumb Waiter" by TUTA Theatre Chicago ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dumb Waiter" by TUTA Theatre Chicago ★★★ ... At the appointed moment, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2012
The glory days of the resorts in the Catskills are familiar objects of "Dirty Dancing" nostalgia and totems of a vanished mode of leisure with a proud showbiz tradition. But there is no shre…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:25PM[SHARE]The off-Broadway venue known as the 59E59 Theaters in New York has announced several shows this fall with origins in Chicago.
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