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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:50AM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Who Do We Think We Are?" at Second City ★★★½
Of the previous 99 mainstage revues at the Second City, almost all have offered the audience a chance to s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Chicago Dramatists, the venerable, 33-year-old Chicago institution known for its support of new plays, has announced its 2012-13 season of three world premieres.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I've watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]"Cirque Shanghai," the long-running attraction on Navy Pier, will be back once again this summer. Shows begin May 24 at the Skyline Stage, which (given the plans to improve the pier) is not …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "The March" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The March" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★ ... In Frank Galati's rich adaptation of E.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PM[SHARE]Chicago is to have a big new entertainment venue this summer — a 70-foot-tall, 22,000-square-foot tent that will seat as many as 2,500 patrons who will be served up a variety of populi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2012
Acting distinguishes otherwise distant production of Kushner masterpiece
Like so many of us, Prior Walter, the central character in Tony Kushner's epic, two-part, seven-hour masterpiece "An…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:14PM[SHARE]One hundred and thirty-two years after W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan dreamed up a preposterous operetta involving a very modern major-general, his bevy of beautiful, naive daughters and a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:13PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
How did Frank Galati adapt E.L. Doctorow's novel about an almost unimaginable Civil War event? He took years, went big and kept it personal
How did Frank Galati adapt E.L. Doctorow's novel …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:55PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Motherhood the Musical" at the Royal George Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Motherhood the Musical" at the Royal George Theatre ★★ ... "Is it going to h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
Mike Nussbaum, the indefatigable, 88-year-old dean of Chicago actors, is to take over the huge role of Sigmund Freud in "Freud's Last Session."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:08PM[SHARE]"Doyle and Debbie," the country-music spoof at the Royal George Theatre Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted St., is closing on May 27.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:55PM[SHARE]The Studio Theatre inWashington, D.C. and the Huntington Theatre in Boston have announced that they both will be staging "The Invisible Man" during the 2012-13 season.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:54PM[SHARE]Reprised musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons still tops the charts
You may feel like they never went away, but the lively young blue-collar gentlemen of the Garden State, ever …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
"Those people could be my neighbors," I heard one woman remark at the conclusion of "After the Revolution," the current production at the Next Theatre in Evanston. Actually, Amy Herzog's imp…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:22PM[SHARE]Andrea Martin is headed to Second City's UP comedy club with her semi-autobiographical show, "Final Days! Everything Must GO!."Â
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915" at the V…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:56PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2012
The 2012 TBS Just for Laughs Comedy Festival has announced many of its headliners for the upcoming June fete of the funny in Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:19PM[SHARE]Team StarKid , the remarkably popular Chicago-based theater company known for its Internet-based musical parodies, is embarking on a second national tour.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:48PM[SHARE]Phylicia Rashad has signed on to direct a play called "Immediate Family," in a new commercial production to be staged this summer in rented space at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:26PM[SHARE]Lili-Anne Brown is taking over as artistic director at Bailiwick Chicago, the small, itinerent Chicago theater company formed out of what was the Bailiwick Arts Center in the Lakeview nei…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2012
Next Theatre of Evanston has announced its 2012-13 season. The slate, the theater company's 32nd, will begin in the fall with "Iphigenia 2.0" by Charles Mee, directed by David Kersnar.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:38PM[SHARE]"The Hunchback Variations," the two-person Theatre Oobleck production starring George Andrew Wolff and Larry Adams, is headed Off-Broadway to the 59E59 Theatre (59 E. 59th St.) in New York. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art said Wednesday that it has received a $10 million gift from retired Apollo Plastics Corp. executive Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, both longtime supporter…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
In case it wasn't clear by now, it's a new era at the Victory Gardens Theater. On Wednesday morning, artistic director Chay Yew announced a new slate of ensemble playwrights.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:53PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Chesapeake" by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at the Greenhouse Theater Center ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Chesapeake" by Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center &…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:03PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "The Last Duck" by Jackalope Theatre Company at the Viaduct Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Last Duck" by Jackalope Theatre Company at the Viaduct Theatre…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:35PM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
Northlight Theatre said Monday that the unannounced fifth show of its 2012-13 season will be a new play by Bruce Graham, the author of "The Outgoing Tide," a previously successful Northlight…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:03PM[SHARE]Despite the modest surroundings of the Karger Center in Highland Park, Jessica Redish, the founding artistic director of the Music Theatre Company, is doing a lot to fill the North Shore gap…
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