Monday, January 17, 2011
THEATER REVIEW: "Port" ★★★½ Through Feb. 26 by Griffin Theatre Company on the West Stage of Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St.; Tickets: $22-$32 at 800-838-3006 or www.gri…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Dolly Parton performs at the Chicago Theater in 2008. (Tribune photo by Abel Uribe) Word is that Dolly Parton is expected at the Chicago opening of the touring production of the musical "9 t…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:26PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Odradek" ★★ Through March 5 at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St.; Running time: 1 hour, 25 minutes; Tickets: $25 at 773-769-3832 or www.thehousetheatre.co…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 16, 2011
Michael Langham, the longtime artistic director of the Stratford Festival in Canada, died Saturday night in England. He was 91. Langham took over at Startford directly after founder Tyrone G…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 15, 2011
Well-wishers in Arizona have created a makeshift memorial in front of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) office. (Photo by Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) ANALYSIS Ever since Plato, conserv…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:31PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Show Your Face!" ★★★½ Through Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago Ave.; $22-$28 at 312-397-4010 and www.mcachicago.org Pete…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:09AM[SHARE]Laura Eason on the set of "Sex with Strangers" at the Steppenwolf Theatre. (Tribune photo by Nancy Stone) The Tribune's Nina Metz recently spoke with playwright Laura Eason about "Sex with S…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 14, 2011
"Hamletmachine" runs through Feb. 12 at the Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W. Cortland Ave.; tickets are $20 at 773-384-0494 or www.trapdoortheatre.com If you're looking for a simple production of …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:30PM[SHARE]Sean Graney, the founding artistic director of The Hypocrites, will leave his post at the end of the current season, making way for ensemble member Halena Kays. Kays will take over the Off-L…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "As You Like It" ★★★½ Through March 6 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier; Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes; Tickets: $44-$75…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 13, 2011
The Broadway opening of "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" has, unbelievably, been postponed yet again. The new opening date has been set for Tues Mar. 15. Prior to Thursday, critics were slated…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:07PM[SHARE]Dates have been released for the previously reported Chicago engagement of "Dixie's Tupperware Party,' the new comedic attraction headed to the cabaret space at the Royal George Theatre. The…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monologist Spalding Gray is the subject of "And Everything Is Going Fine," to be screened 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Goodman's Owen Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St.; $12, 312-443-3800 and www.good…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Whoopi Goldberg is headed to the Chicago area on Feb. 11 to make a one-night-only appearance billed as a celebration of Black History Month. She's coming to the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 12, 2011
THEATER REVIEW: "Delusion" at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. at Millennium Park Laurie Anderson " who, at 63, has morphed into a kind of elfin Uriah Heep " is th…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:54PM[SHARE]1964 ~ 2011 Mary Scruggs, the head of writing and education programs for The Second City Training Center, died at her home late Tuesday night, said Kelly Leonard, the executive vice presiden…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]"Tomorrow Morning" starred Emily Thompson and Michael Mahler in a production at the Greenhouse Theater Center. Read the Nov. 2008 review. The relationship musical "Tomorrow Morning," which h…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Steppenwolf ensemble members Kate Arrington, Laurie Metcalf, Ian Barford and Kevin Anderson in the theater's production of "Detroit" last fall. ' In Lisa D'Amour's "Detroit," uneasiness in t…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]Jon Michael Hill, the young Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member who starred in "Superior Donuts" on Broadway and currently appears in ABC's "Detroit 1-8-7," has joined the cast of St…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:39PM[SHARE]Monday, January 10, 2011
THEATER REVIEW: Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival is through Sunday at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.; Tickets: Prices and showtimes vary; go to www.stage773.com. Reviews by Chris Jones and Ni…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 9, 2011
There are playwrights who just write plays"maybe half a dozen over the course of a decade. And then there is Neil LaBute, an astonishingly prolific writer who not only writes major plays ("T…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:21PM[SHARE]Friday, January 7, 2011
THEATER REVIEW: "Spamalot," Four Stars, Drury Lane Theatre, Oakbrook Terrace. When Eric Idle, the creator of "Monty Python's Spamalot," showed up in Oakbrook Terrace …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 6, 2011
Former "Saturday Night Live" performer Nora Dunn is back in Chicago and has a new live show " "Mythical Proportions" runs Thursdays in January at the iO Theater. Read her interview here with…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Linda Reiter is Mag and Eileen Niccolai is Maureen in Shattered Globe Theatre's production of Martin McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane." In previews Jan. 13-15 and running through Feb.…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Before the holidays, Playwrights Horizons announced its intent to commission a new musical version of the 2002 movie "Far From Heaven," a noir piece about 1950s suburbia that was directed by…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 06:26PM[SHARE]Monday, January 3, 2011
The national touring production of "Wicked" took in $1,726,476 at the box-office in Chicago, during the week ending Dec. 26. That's the biggest ever weekly haul for a theatrical production i…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 30, 2010
Nina Metz and Kerry Reid write the "ON THE FRINGE" column every Friday in the Tribune, reviewing shows from Chicago's off-Loop theater scene. This is their column looking ahead to the new ye…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:50PM[SHARE](Posted by Doug George) ... Or nearly so. This New Year's Eve weekend reportedly is shaping up to be a banner weekend for Chicago-area theaters. Thursday night is widely sold out, said Deb C…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:38PM[SHARE]"The Scottsboro Boys," recently at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, should be in Chicago. It's time for resolutions. And so " because I prefer to suggest them for others rather than make them…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]The second half Chicago theater season in uncompromising in its willingness to probe the darker reaches of the human experience. There are certainly some escapist titles " "Guys and Dolls" a…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 29, 2010
It was a year of scandal and rejuvenation, loss and celebration, recessionary cuts, and, incredibly enough, new theaters built in the teeth of the recession. Here's a brief look back at some…
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