Monday, June 4, 2012
The Chicago-based director Dexter Bullard will make his Broadway debut in the fall, directing Michael Shannon, Paul Rudd, Ed Asner and Kate Arrington in a revised version of "Grace" by Craig…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2012
At one point in Andrew Hinderaker's fascinating new play, "I Am Going to Change the World," a character observes that most people would not get out of bed in the morning if they actually kne…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:36PM[SHARE]On the weekend of Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee, a group gathered in Evanston to commune once again with the abiding musical myth of a different British royal court. The opening night au…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:36PM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2012
When Phylicia Rashad was cast as a replacement Violet Weston in Anna D. Shapiro's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Broadway gossip boards were abuzz with the n…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
1-woman show featuring 7 characters is well-acted but executed at too slow a pace in too small a space
Ever since their collective appearance at the Stratford Festival in 1998, blondes, bru…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has announced its 2012-13 season of live performances. The typically expansive, eclectic and inter-disciplinary season includes the following events:
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:19PM[SHARE]After a four-year absence, the Radio City Rockettes are kicking their way back to what was the Rosement Theatre and is now the Akoo Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: 'A History of Everything' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★
Should you be overwhelmed by your problems — or maybe you're just involved with someone …
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THEATER REVIEW: "Romeo Juliet" by Hypocrites in the Chopin Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Romeo Juliet" by Hypocrites in the Chopin Theatre ★★★ ... I've he…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2012
A potential superhero awaits the unleashing of his powers. Tracy Letts mourns over Moscow. A Chicago disaster is revisited. A young man misses his appointment with Goldman Sachs. Oedipus hit…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PM[SHARE]The Second City is moving into the teen market, creating a new, sketch-based show performed by teenagers with an audience of teenagers in mind. The new company is to get a regular, early-eve…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "When the Rain Stops Falling" at the Circle Theatre in Oak Park ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "When the Rain Stops Falling" at the Circle Theatre in Oak Park …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:49PM[SHARE]Northlight Theatre's production of Bruce Graham's "The Outgoing Tide," a play dealing with the effects of aging, is headed to the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland, replete with the original N…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:33PM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2012
When Black Ensemble Theatre opened its beautiful new building in November, it did so with a show, "The Jackie Wilson Story," that not only was under-rehearsed but was merely a pro forma remo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]David Schwimmer, the Lookingglass Theatre ensemble member, will star in the New York premiere of Lisa D'Amour's "Detroit," Playwrights Horizons announced Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:31PM[SHARE]Chicago's Black Ensemble Theatre is to make its first major foray into hip hop and "Gangsta Rap" and tell the life-story of Tupac Amaru Shakur.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 19, 2012
Anna Deavere Smith has, in essence, combined a career doing serious, interview-based theater work like "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angles" with more lucrative acting gigs on TV …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:36AM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "The Whole World is Watching" by the Dog & Pony Theatre Company at the Biograph ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whole World is Watching" by the Dog & Pony Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2012
At its 25th summit in Chicago this weekend, NATO will be preoccupied with the tricky business of how to advance its various institutional priorities — like global security and the buil…
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The Goodman Theatre said Thursday that it will stage "Smokefall," a new play by Noah Haidle ("Vigils," "Mr. Marmalade")Â as part of its 2013-14 season. Anne Kauffman is scheduled to direct…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Last year, Chicago's American Theater Company staged the original "Grease." In 2013, artistic director PJ Paparelli has his sights set on the original Off-Broadway version of the iconic hipp…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:43PM[SHARE]The comic Sarah Silverman has been added to the line-up of the TBS Just for Laughs Festival. Silverman will present (in person) an evening of her "favorite comedians" at the Chicago Theatre …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:20PM[SHARE]"Bring it On: The Musical," the cheerleader musical that played Chicago earlier this year, is headed to Broadway, its producers, Fox Theatricals, announced Wednesday morning.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:41AM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2012
Before there was the rapidly atrophying NBC sitcom "Smash," there was "[Title of Show]," a cleverly metadramatic little show by Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen , wherein a couple of young guys tr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PM[SHARE]"I'm gonna try out some material," Andrea Martin said Friday night at Second City's UP Comedy Club. "None of it is new," she quickly added, as if in horror at the very thought of such a thin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2012
"My Kind of Town," the fine new play by John Conroy with the titular nod to Frank Sinatra, begins with a faux promotional video about the beauties of Chicago, circa 1990. Narrated by the Tri…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 12, 2012
Desiree, the Scandinavian actress at the heart of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's "A Little Night Music" and the character who delivers the famously cynical number "Send in the Clowns," …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2012
50-year stage veteran Mike Nussbaum shines in 2-man drama
"Freud's Last Session" is no "King Lear." And there is nothing in the air to suggest that Mike Nussbaum is slowing down his busy sl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:01AM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Hostage Song" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Hostage Song" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★ ... I don't think I've ever s…
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