Thursday, May 10, 2012
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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New York's Lincoln Center has announced it will stage the Ayad Akhtar play "Disgraced" in October as part of its LCT3 program.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:15PM[SHARE]The TBS Just for Laughs Comedy Festival released on Wednesday the names of more contracted performers at the Chicago comedy festival.
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THEATER REVIEW: "Kin" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Kin" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½ ... Few plays are as tricky to stage as…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:46PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Rent" at American Theater Company ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Rent" at American Theater Company ★★ ... There are revelations in David Cromer's intensely tex…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: 'Jamaica, Farewell' by Chopin Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'Jamaica, Farewell' by Chopin Theatre ★★★ ... "Jamaica, Farewell," which has ar…
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THEATER REVIEW: "A Brown Bear, A Moon and A Caterpillar: Treasured Stories by Eric Carle" by Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia at Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, presented by the Chicago Chil…
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THEATER REVIEW: tick, tick...BOOM! by Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773 ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: tick, tick...BOOM! by Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773 ★★&…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Timon of Athens" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Timon of Athens" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½ ... Few realizations …
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THEATER REVIEW: "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ ... They don't talk…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Tigers Be Still" at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Tigers Be Still" at Theater Wit ★★★ ... The mother and two grown daughters at the h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:34PM[SHARE]With the aptly named "Leap of Faith" unexpectedly snagging the contested fourth spot, the musicals "Once," "Newsies" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It" scored all-important 2012 Tony Award no…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:35AM[SHARE]On the stage of the Steep Theatre, designer Stephen Harold Carmody has re-created an everyday office: you see rows of files, a nice reception desk, inspirational art on the walls celebrating…
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Disappearing Broadway investments prove, especially this season, that there is still no formula for commercial success in the entertainment business, but the wicked track record of the prequ…
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Robert Falls and Brian Dennehy, with a twist of Nathan Lane, take on O'Neill with 'more of a sense of mortality'
In October 1990, a 36-year-old named Robert Falls was six years into his ten…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
NEW YORK — Raul Esparza, the handsome and admirably complex star of the new screen-to-stage musical "Leap of Faith," is the guy you want in your show when your leading character is hav…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The Goodman Theatre said Wednesday that Deanna Dunagan will appear in the role of Polly in the upcoming production of "Other Desert Cities," slated for January of next year.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:47PM[SHARE]It's not hard to see why John Lithgow was attracted to the role of Joseph Alsop, portraying a syndicated newspaper columnist whose incomparable influence lasted for some four decades. John L…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:53PM[SHARE]The Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre remains a favorite of the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, which released its nominations Wednesday for the 2012 Jeff Awards for theaters that are not affil…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — Given the well-grounded corporate nervousness of those in the leisure industry about being associated with any particular religious belief, it's unusual to approa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:15PM[SHARE]It most certainly is "Nice Work If You Can Get It," but the new Broadway musical starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara is otherwise tough to define. It's not really a jukebox musical, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PM[SHARE]Producers from the Barrow Street Theatre in New York were in Chicago for the closing days of Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall," the hit production about the Stonewall riots staged in the Steppenwo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:23PM[SHARE]Conan O'Brien, the TV host and comedian, announced on his comedy show on the TBS cable network Monday night that he is coming to Chicago in June.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
BROADWAY REVIEW: "Ghost" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York ... At one moment in this cold, over-produced new musical from London, Molly suddenly senses that maybe, just maybe, her lov…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "In a Forest, Dark and Deep" at Profiles Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "In a Forest, Dark and Deep" at Profiles Theatre ★★½ ... When two characte…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]Profiles Theatre, the long-standing non-Equity theater on Chicago's North Side, has affiliated itself with the actors' union. The new Equity status coincides with the company's expansion int…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:40AM[SHARE]"Me and the DuBois have different notions," says Blair Underwood's uncommonly desirable Stanley in director Emily Mann's accessible, enjoyable and — on occasion — revealing new B…
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Brian Dennehy missed the first Saturday night and Sunday afternoon preview performances of "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre.
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THEATER REVIEW: "Hairpsray" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Hairpsray" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★ ... I…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
Formidable actor stars in overly pat show
Had Simon Callow arrived in lawless Chicago a century or more ago, like one of those famous traveling British Shakespeareans of yore, proudly pros…
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