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RECOMMENDED Though its setting is seventeenth-century French aristocracy (it premiered in 1666, near the beginning of Louis XIV’s reign), Molière’s “Misanthrope” is …
Linked From Newcity Stage at 08:05PMRECOMMENDED As the curtain rises on a nun in rapturous reflection, with the pulsing sounds of Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby” scoring a sprawling, bawdy set of dirty…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 08:00PMRECOMMENDED “Proof,” David Auburn’s 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the inspiring yet conflicted relationship between a University of Chicago mathematician and his daughter, is …
Linked From Newcity Stage at 12:44PMRECOMMENDED Growing up next to the only Mormon church in Joliet, I was remarkably ignorant of what the faith represented, knowing only that they were not “true Christians” accord…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 01:04PMTop 5 Dance Productions of 2012 “Epic French Masterpieces,” Paris Opera Ballet “Winter Fire,” Joffrey Ballet “Spring Series,” Hubbard Street Dance “…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED How far will an outside producer go in dropping crucial elements in transposing an outside production to Chicago? How much will be lost in making the transition, particularly whe…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 11:00AMRECOMMENDED Although Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera “Hansel and Gretel” has been a beloved Christmas staple around the world for well over a century, it’s been a relati…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 11:15AMRECOMMENDED It is no easy task to take the rhyming, whimsical world of Dr. Seuss and bring it to life. Boris Karloff and Chuck Jones did it wonderfully well in the 1966 animated version of …
Linked From Newcity Stage at 10:30AMBy Dennis Polkow If Chicago actor James Vincent Meredith looks familiar, he has been a fixture on Chicago stages for years. But even those who have not caught his distinctive performances ac…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Following in the footsteps of its highly successful and innovative “Pirates of Penzance,” which is being revived and running in repertory alongside of this offering, the Hypo…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 02:00PMRECOMMENDED For a lively reprieve from the abundance of seasonal plays and pageants, Remy Bumppo offers up one of George Bernard Shaw’s few comedies, “You Never Can Tell.” …
Linked From Newcity Stage at 01:00PMRECOMMENDED Thirty-five years ago, Goodman Theatre debuted its first production of Charles Dickens’ holiday classic at the suggestion of now-executive director Roche Schulfer, and chan…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 03:00PMRECOMMENDED How rarely is Massenet’s “Werther,” the work many consider the crown jewel of French Romantic opera, done at Lyric Opera? Well, only twice prior in the company’s near six…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 04:00PMChicago is having a renewed love affair with the work of Eugene O’Neill lately, as several local companies have featured O’Neill’s plays in recent seasons. Eclipse Theatre …
Linked From Newcity Stage at 11:00AMRECOMMENDED The Doge of Genoa is back. He doesn’t come around very often, so if you want an audience with him, now is a good time to do so or you may end up having to wait another decade a…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 04:00PMRECOMMENDED Just in time for Halloween, Strange Tree Group’s “Funeral Wedding: The Alvin Play” returns for an engagement at the Signal Ensemble Theatre. This gothic and drawn-out g…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 03:00PMRECOMMENDED It’s always exciting to see a fresh play by a local author. Even more so when that play is executed as finely as TimeLine Theatre Company’s production of Susan Felder…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 05:05AMRECOMMENDED It has been twenty years since Richard Strauss’ “Elektra” was last presented by Lyric Opera: there was plenty of blood that time around, and Scottish director Sir David McV…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 02:40PMAfter a brief run on Broadway in 2010, “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” is making its Chicago debut in a vivid production by Bailiwick Chicago. With a presidential election looming…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 11:08AMRECOMMENDED Sure the premise—a televised singing competition a la “American Idol” centered on the works of legendary “one-name-only” R&B divas like Aretha, Whit…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 05:00AMRECOMMENDED Following up on his spectacular production of “Follies” last spring, Gary Griffin returns to Sondheim to open Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s new season with a work he mounte…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 04:30PMRECOMMENDED Coming to Chicago all the way from the National Theatre of Scotland, “The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart” features a fine set of musicians and actors acting out on…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 11:54AMRECOMMENDED Having directed a brilliant revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Writers’ Theater a few seasons back—which has also since played the Williamstown Theatre Festival—i…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 09:00PMRECOMMENDED “You have had a good life,” the ready-for-retirement Charlie declares to his wife Nancy as they verbally joust during a beach vacation. In playwright Edward AlbeeR…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 11:46AMRECOMMENDED Several memorable Mozart productions have been directed by Diane Paulus and conducted by Jane Glover during Brian Dickie’s thirteen-year tenure as general director of Chicago O…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 10:00AMWriters’ Theatre presented such a memorable performance of Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” a few seasons back that it seemed only fitting that the compan…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 03:00PMAlthough the show itself originally opened more than thirty years ago, “Dreamgirls” has had remarkable staying power, particularly since the 2006 film version that won an Oscar for Chica…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 06:15PMWe’re publishing our fall preview today. For our performing arts sections, see: Fall Dance Preview 2012 Fall Stage Preview 2012
Linked From Newcity Stage at 05:00AMChicago has certainly witnessed its fair share of contemporized Greek theater in recent seasons—Mary-Arrchie’s “Electra,” Victory Gardens’ “Oedipus el Rey” and The Hypocrites…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 07:11PMRECOMMENDED Falling, as it did, at the end of a weekend theater marathon (four plays, three days) and positioned between a sumptuous brunch and a daunting drive back to Chicago, coupled with…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 09:00PMRECOMMENDED In his tightly constructed 1995 play “Skylight,” playwright David Hare has much to say about contemporary life, especially as it relates to the choices we all make: w…
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