Friday, September 13, 2013
In Lorraine Hansberry's classic Chicago drama, "A Raisin in the Sun," the African-American Younger family inhabits a worn-out apartment on the South Side. As Mama (Greta Oglesby), the family…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:37PM[SHARE]It was announced on Friday that legendary stand-up comedian and television star Jerry Seinfeld will return to the Chicago Theatre for two performances on Dec. 14. Set rather close together a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Broadway In Chicago announced Wednesday that "Once Upon A Dream Starring The Rascals" will play the Cadillac Palace Theatre from Nov. 5 - 10 for five performances.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
In "The Color Purple," a musical based on Alice Walker's novel, four decades of a woman's life in the South are powerfully chronicled. Set in 1909 Georgia, the meek Celie (Trisha Jeffrey)…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:20PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
In Nora Dunn's autobiographical solo show, "Mythical Proportions," the actress and "Saturday Night Live" alumna muses on a life spent in the fast-moving world of   show business, forev…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:23PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2013
In the music-driven folktale, "The Old Man and The Old Moon," the title character, whose life’s work is nothing short of filling up the moon with light, pursues his wife after she take…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2013
Two sides of "Dickens in America" at American Players Theatre are very much at odds with one another. At one is an edutainment script fit for a literature-class trip. Although imparting unde…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2013
"Sittin' in a room," goes the chorus of the opening song of "Rooms: a rock romance," receiving its Chicago premiere by Broken Nose Theatre. Awfully vague, don't you think? From Anton Chekhov…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 10:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2013
By Johnny Oleksinski Play readings are pretty commonplace events. Theater companies put them up to try a dusty old script on for size or to aid in developing a resident playwright’s wo…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2013
RECOMMENDED When does a wrongdoing become the past? More narrowly, how long does it take for a wrongdoing to transition into a mistake? Is the difference between a mistake and an accident an…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
RECOMMENDED Last summer at Victory Gardens, the intense "Oedipus el Rey" uncovered parallels between King Oedipus' dark road to blind incest and Los Angeles' treacherous gang life. Not quite…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
RECOMMENDED The glam-rock bio-concert, "Hedwig and The Angry Inch," boasts a fervent cult following, to say the least. But the show about a transgender East German expat rocker inspires a di…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:34PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
RECOMMENDED In the summer, while just about every other theater company is busy celebrating William Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the bard’s local namesake, packs its Court…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
Theater is sharing its wardrobe with television these days. Some of our best playwrights have day jobs on TV shows such as "Mad Men" and the fallen "Smash." Additionally, those stage writers…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
By Johnny Oleksinski A man stands alone at the end of a long runway, unable to move. On the other side are his three children and, in the middle, perch two threatening immigration officers. …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
Despite its reputation as Shakespeare's longest play, you won't come across too many four-hour "Hamlet"'s anymore, unless Kenneth Branagh's 1996 unabridged film version pops up late on telev…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:13PM[SHARE]"A Steady Rain"-playwright Keith Huff's newest caper, "Big Lake Big City" at Lookingglass Theatre Company, is a total bust. A wannabe satire of already what’s probably the most satiriz…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 7, 2013
RECOMMENDED Belleville means "beautiful town." It's a neighborhood in Paris that, through its naïve moniker, comes to represent the entire fairy-tale French city. Paris is, without questi…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:51PM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
A child stands alone in a dank, prim, suffocating Victorian parlor. His room is but a speck on the Goodman's looming proscenium. It isn't all sooty; some furniture is bathed in a particularl…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
RECOMMENDED Black Ensemble Theater’s “Ain’t No Cryin’ The Blues: In Memory of Howlin Wolf,” is as much a memory play as it is a jukebox biography-musical. The s…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 05:05PM[SHARE]“Boeing Boeing,” a French technicolor sex farce written by Marc Camoletti in 1962, is the cuckold uncle in a long family line of French farce. Something about the sixties"and I&#…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
By Johnny Oleksinski "Even if you think you don't know Buddy Holly's songs, you probably do," says actor Ryan G. Dunkin reassuringly. He knows them better than most people. Dunkin plays the …
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2013
"You make the world lousy," says Doc after a group of Jets rapes Anita, girlfriend of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. "That's the way we found it," shoots back Riff, a Jet, wiping the sw…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2013
By Johnny Oleksinski Last year’s Sketchbook, Collaboraction’s annual festival of new work, was remarkably impressive. The unexpectedly profound and profoundly enjoyable “Ho…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:00PM[SHARE]A Hawaiian shirt and a cowboy hat! That's surely not what writer Alexandre Dumas had pictured in his mind's eye when he penned "The Three Musketeers" in 1844. When Porthos (Christopher M. Wa…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 12:02PM[SHARE]Although the writer Sherod Santos is known in literary circles for his body of poetry, his words are taking the stage in “Lives of the Pigeons,” receiving a world premiere at The…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 11:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
With their popular and tuneful musicals, John Kander and the late Fred Ebb fashioned a storied career essentially from derivation. That's not to slight the duo's awesome achievements because…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 09:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
There are a couple playwright-screenwriters that are of particular interest at the moment. One is Elizabeth Meriwether, scribe of the hilarious and twisted "Heddatron" and the far less funny…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 04:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
By Johnny Oleksinski Another year, another Non-Equity Jeff Award Ceremony. Folks around these parts call it “Theater Prom” for a reason. The banter is awkward, the recipients are…
SOURCE: Newcity Stage at 01:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
On the far wall of Rivendell Theatre is an illustrated moon cycle, starting from waxing crescent transitioning all the way to a big full moon and back again in the opposite direction. In the…
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