Friday, December 10, 2010
THEATER REVIEW: "Cash" ★★ Through Dec. 19 by XIII Pocket at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.; Running time: 1 hour; Tickets: $22 at 773-327-5252 or www.thirteenpocket.com Stephen …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:50PM[SHARE]The building housing the 440-seat Apollo Theatre, located at 2518-40 N. Lincoln Ave., will be sold to the highest bidder at a public auction on Jan. 18. The foreclosure sale, which includes …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 9, 2010
The Lyric Opera of Chicago announced this afternoon that the renowned opera singer Renee Fleming will become a "creative consultant" to the company, and also that Lyric plans expanded collab…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 06:46PM[SHARE]"Irving Berlin's White Christmas" is new to Chicago, playing through Jan. 2 at the Bank of America Theatre; contact www.broadwayinchicago.com. ' HOLIDAY GUIDE: Making a list of our top-10 mo…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Former Saturday Night Light cast member Nora Dunn is to preview various parts of her new solo show "Mythic Proportions" at the iO comedy theater located at 3541 N. Clark St., artistic direct…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Pegasus Players, a longstanding Chicago theater which has been moribund (and feared for dead) for the last several months, is to relocate to the Beacon Street Theatre in Uptown in a new part…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:35PM[SHARE]Kathleen Purcell Turner and Pierre Clark in "The Nativity" by Congo Square Theatre Company at the Goodman Theatre. THEATER REVIEW: "The Nativity" ★★★ Through Dec. 31 by Con…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]Deadline Hollywood reports that Oprah Winfrey is to return to acting in an adaptation of Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" for HBO films. "Ruined," which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, premiered at (and…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, December 6, 2010
Playwright Rebecca Gilman is joining the Goodman Theatre's artistic collective, the loose ensemble of artists who are considered the Goodman's home team, the Chicago theater announced Monday…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:59PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Alien Queen" ★★½ Through Dec. 18 at Circuit Nightclub, 3641 N. Halsted St.; Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: $15-$25 at 800-838-3006 or www.bigtopjo…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Local Wonders" ★★½ Through Jan. 9 at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave. $25-30 at 630-457-1074 or www.localwondersmusical.com. The good people of the Gr…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 4, 2010
THEATER REVIEW: "Wicked" ★★★★ Through Nov. 27 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St.; $25-$97 at www.broadwayinchicago.com Five or ten minutes into "Wick…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "Christmas Smackdown" ★★★ Through Dec. 22 in the Del Close Theater at i.O., 3541 N. Clark St.; Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: $14 at 773-880-019…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:05AM[SHARE]Friday, December 3, 2010
Jennifer Jason Leigh will join the previously announced Ben Stiller and Edie Falco in David Cromer's Hollywood star-laden, upcoming Broadway production of John Guare's "The House of Blue Lea…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]According to a report Thursday night on ABC-7 in Chicago, an actor named David Bertucci, 41, was found beaten Sunday morning outside a Chicago nightclub. Reporter Cheryl Burton said that Ber…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 2, 2010
The illustrious Broadway choreographer Ann Reinking is headed to Chicago early next year to co-create a new Chiacgo-centric work for Thodos Dance Chicago. Entitled "The White City: Chicago's…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]The Goodman Theatre has announced the plays that will be part of its 2011 New Stages project. Semi-staged, script-in-hand perforamances will be open to the public on the weekends of Jan. 14 …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:35PM[SHARE]The touring production of "Wicked" is at the Cadillac Palace Theatre through Jan. 23. If you are headed to "Wicked" at some point over the next few weeks, and if you can fight your way past …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 1, 2010
THEATER REVIEW: "Travels With My Aunt" ★ Through March 27 at Writers' Theatre, 664 Vernon Ave., Glencoe; Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes; Tickets: $45-$60 at 847-242-6000 and www.wri…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:55PM[SHARE]You have more chances to see three of the fall's top shows. The Court Theatre's production of "Home" has added four performances on Dec. 17, 18 and 19 (matinee and evening). Court rarely ext…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:32AM[SHARE]The Broadway musical "Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson" is today's Broadway casualty. The musical will play its final performance on Jan. 2, it was anounced Wednesday; its demise was widely an…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 30, 2010
THEATER REVIEW: "The Importance of Being Earnest" ★★½ Through Jan. 9 at Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.; Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes; Tickets: $40-$55 at…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]"The Scottsboro Boys," John Kander and Fred Ebb's last show and by far my favorite new musical of the Broadway season so far, has announced its closing on Dec. 12.
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Monday, November 29, 2010
THEATER REVIEW: "A Christmas Carol" ★★1/2 Through Dec. 31 at the Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St.; Running time: 2 hours; Tickets: $25-$84 at 312-443-3800 Since the Goodman T…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 04:57PM[SHARE]Friday, November 26, 2010
Actor Amy Morton, left, and actor and playwright Tracy Letts in a rehearsal space for Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. They will appear together in the upcoming "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 25, 2010
Above, "Billy Elliot the Musical," the inspirational show set in Northern England, performs its final show Sunday at the Oriental Theatre. Below left, Jackie Burns is Elphaba and Chandra Lee…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 01:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 24, 2010
' SEE ALSO Kerry Reid's chart of 32 more holiday shows | HOLIDAY THEATER SLIDESHOW It's that time of year, when no real Chicagoan can resist at least one live holiday-themed production. Isn'…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Posted by Doug George Call this truth jamming with fiction: Rockabilly singer and guitarist Sonny Burgess recorded his first album with his band, the Pacers, for Sam Phillips in Memphis in 1…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Nina Metz and Kerry Reid recommend the new productions "Cats" ★★★ by Theo Ubique in Rogers Park, the salty holiday play "Redeemers" ★★★ by the New Leaf Th…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 04:09PM[SHARE]THEATER REVIEW: "A Civil War Christmas" ★★ Through Dec. 19 at the North Shore Center for the Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; Running time: 2 hours; Tickets: $40-$50 at 847-673-6…
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