Monday, April 2, 2012
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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PM[SHARE]An adult-oriented puppet show called "Stuffed and Unstrung" is headed this June to the Bank of America Theatre, Broadway in Chicago anounced Monday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2012
Polish ensemble's wrenching theater not for fainthearted
Some artists feel the thrill of the zeitgeist, the pull of the technological moment. Others, like the remarkable Teatr Zar of Poland…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2012
Tony Award-winning production aptly tells tale of man who used music to stir activism, agitation in good measure in native Nigeria
Deep into "Fela!," when Fela Anikulapo-Kuti stands defiant…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2012
NEW YORK — There is something uniquely appealing, entertainment history reveals, about urban urchins in cloth caps, be they Parisian waifs, London pickpockets or unflaggingly optimisti…
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The New York-based actress (and Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member) Kate Arrington is joining the cast of Robert Falls' upcoming Goodman Theatre production of "The Iceman Cometh," the Goodm…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:15PM[SHARE]There's nothing even remotely like it in Chicago, with the celebrity chef becoming the spiritual father of these food-driven proceedings
Lubricated by a salty margarita purloined in the lob…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:07PM[SHARE]"Freud's Last Session," the hit Off-Broadway play now in commercial residence at the Mercury Theatre, replete with the original New York cast, imagines that a dying and exiled Sigmund Freud …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Southport Ave., officially unveiled further renovations Monday night likely to make the venue yet more attractive to commercial and other producers.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:57AM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2012
For most of its recent history, Eclipse Theatre Company has been defined by its intimacy. And so has director Lou Contey, who made his reputation long ago at the Shattered Globe's tiny old s…
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Sahr Ngaujah reprises his Broadway role as political and cultural hero of Nigeria
After "Fela!" — the Afrobeat musical based on the life and art of the Nigerian musician and political…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:01PM[SHARE]NEW YORK — At the top of the Broadway transfer of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Jesus Christ Superstar,” there's a cl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Broadway in Chicago said Thursday that "I Love Lucy Live on Stage" will be staged this fall at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, playing from Sept 12 through Nov. 11.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:46AM[SHARE]Popularity is a weird thing in the arts. After Yuri Lane, the Chicago-based performance artist and self-styled "human beatbox," placed video clips of his work on YouTube, he quickly scored, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Lookingglass Theatre ensemble member David Schwimmer will direct a new Chicago-set play by Keith Huff ("A Steady Rain") as part of the 2012-13 season at the Lookingglass Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:26PM[SHARE]Lifeline Theatre will stage a new stage adaptation of "The Woman in White," the 1899 English ghost story by Wilkie Collins that previously became the main source of an Andrew Lloyd Webber mu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:51AM[SHARE]When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were not reigning supreme on the Broadway stages of the 1930s and 1940s, they were reposing at Ten Chimneys, their summer house in Genesee Depot, Wis. The …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
THEATER REVIEW: "Hair" at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Hair" at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★ ... If you had told me a year…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
There are plenty of romantic Broadway musicals. But "Once," the gorgeously crafted and intensely moving new show that opened on Broadway on Sunday night after a seamless transition from down…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:09PM[SHARE]"Meet my co-chair," William Shatner observed from the stage of Auditorium Theatre Friday night, whereupon a seat on wheels was flung in the general direction of the man who once flew the Sta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 17, 2012
The fracas Friday involving monologuist Mike Daisey and the public radio show "This American Life" is not just the latest scandal of a purported truth teller caught in at least an act of emb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:56AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
The radio program “This American Life” and WBEZ 91.5 FM said Friday that they have cancelled the live presentation of Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Stev…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2012
In one of the pivotal scenes in "Death of a Salesman," the great Arthur Miller drama from 1949, Willy Loman, a single-company traveling salesman of some 36 years standing, must beg for his j…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:39PM[SHARE]There's a hot new trend that artfully intertwines theater and dining, and its curtain is rising in Chicago
Most Chicago actors do not bring their own Bunsen burners to the rehearsal room. B…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Chicago's Court Theatre has announced its 2012-13 season. Bereft of new work or major reinterpretation, it seems notably less ambitious than in recent years, but will likely please those who…
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THEATER REVIEW: "The Light in the Piazza" by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre at No Exit Cafe ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Light in the Piazza" by Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:09PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Falling: A Wake" at the Rivendell Theatre ★
THEATER REVIEW: "Falling: A Wake" at the Rivendell Theatre ★ ... At the top of Gary Kirkham's "Falling: A Wake," the…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Camino Real" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Camino Real" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ ...Spanish director Calixto Bie…
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