Thursday, January 12, 2012
For all the controversy that has surrounded Diane Paulus' revisionist Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess," or, as it now is billed, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," the considerable streng…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:58PM[SHARE]A little time in Las Vegas, or the symbolic equivalent thereof, is good for all of us, I always say. It worked for Frank Sinatra, who knew to spend a whole lot more time at The Sands than Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The 2008 Broadway musical "In the Heights," the story of a mostly Latino community struggling to both move up and stay together, is now in its waning days as a touring attraction. Since the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:56PM[SHARE]The British stage-and-screen actor Simon Callow will appear at the Broadway Playhouse in the spring, it was announced Tuesday evening.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2012
"Smash,"the mid-season NBC replacement TV show that deals with the process of creating a new Broadway musical, had what the producers said was the first screening of its pilot episode bef…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:26AM[SHARE]Matt Damon will headline a benefit performance of dramatic readings at the Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., on Jan. 31. The Hollywood actor will be joined by the Steppenwolf Theatre's Robert …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:46AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2012
You don't hear so much these days about Dolly the Sheep, but when Caryl Churchill's "A Number" was first performed in 2002 (starring Daniel Craig, actually), cloning was a hotly debated issu…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Ravina Festival is to announce Thursday night that Idina Menzel, the original star of "Wicked" and also now known for her work on "Glee," will make her first appearance at the Highland P…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:20PM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2011
From outrageous European directors to Chicagoans whose work we've come to trust over the long haul, the winter theater season in Chicago offers a variety of attractions, including a notable …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2011
"The Addams Family" is not the first musical whose first national tour has been infinitely better than the Broadway production that gave it birth: such past shows as “Big” and …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:32PM[SHARE]Three stars for beautifully sung version of Lucy Simon's work
It has now been 20 years since Lucy Simon's gorgeous score for "The Secret Garden" — which you can hear beautifully sung …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2011
THEATER REVIEW: Victoria Zielinski and Paul Barrosse in "The Vic & Paul Show" ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: Victoria Zielinski and Paul Barrosse in "The Vic & Paul Show" at the Mayn…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2011
It has been several years since an actor was our Chicagoan of the year in theater — and even longer since the honor went to someone just 28 years old. But then Jessie Mueller is not an…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:54AM[SHARE]In the real world, about 30 years separates the two stars of the current touring production of "La Cage Aux Folles," the first national outing, so to speak, of Terry Johnson's formidably di…
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David Rosenberg, the longtime publicist for the Steppenwolf Theatre, said Wednesday that he's leaving the theater in coming weeks.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2011
The Chicago Park District's Theatre on the Lake announced Tuesday that its popular summer program has two new "artistic creators" in Michael Patrick Thornton and Meghan Beals McCarthy.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:49AM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
How a superstar team lost its way in Chicago and New York, and now hope the third time is a charm
NEW YORK — It's pushing midnight at Angus McIndoe, a Broadway watering hole. Marshal…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:08PM[SHARE]How a superstar team lost its way in Chicago and New York, and now hope the third time is a charm
NEW YORK — It's pushing midnight at Angus McIndoe, a Broadway watering hole. Marshall…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:50PM[SHARE]The Emerald City Theatre Company production of "Pinkalicious: The Musical" is doing good business at Broadway in Chicago's Broadway Playhouse, albeit with a small number of daytime shows.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2011
Actor and funnyman Stephen Colbert showed up with family members Friday night in the audience for "The Santaland Diaries," a Theatre Wit spokesman said Saturday. The show, a long-running sea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2011
The infamous stage mother will be played by Klea Blackhurst, known for her albums and concert performances and also for the well-received Ethel Merman tribute, "Everything That Traffic Will …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:37PM[SHARE]Toward the end of "A Christmas Story, The Musical" you hear a small catch in the throat of the fine actor Gene Weygandt, who plays Jean Shepherd, the raconteur who gave the American Christma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:20AM[SHARE]NEW YORK - In Aristophanes' Greek comedy "Lysistrata" — part of the Athens season of 411 B.C. — the war-weary women of Greece decide to deny their husbands and lovers sexual fav…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Gift Theatre will stage a new play by Andrew Hinderaker in its 2012 season, the theater announced Wednesday. Entitled "Dirty" and opening in September, the play looks at an investment ban…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
As part of a broader package of tax benefits aimed at helping businesses in Illinois, incentives for long-running Broadway shows passed the Illinois Senate today and on their way to the desk…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:47PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" at American Theater Company ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" at American Theater Company…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:34PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Penelope" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Penelope" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½ ... Romantic hopes spring eternal in …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]NEW YORK -Â Anyone who caught the Irish guy Glen Hansard and the Czech girl Marketa Irglova playing their gorgeous song "Falling Softly" on the Academy Awards telecast has a sense of bot…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 12, 2011
"Unspeakable," a unauthorized show about the late comedian Richard Pryor, will be performed before an invited audience at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Chicago on Friday. The non-public per…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:12PM[SHARE]"Detroit," the well-received new play by Lisa D' Amour that premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago last year under the direction of Austin Pendleton, will make its New York bow at P…
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