Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The show based on the Martin Scorsese film has five lyricists and writers, and it feels like all of the writers got to do their own thing.
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When you have actors of the quality and appeal of Laura Linney (”Ozark,” of late) and Jessica Hecht (”Breaking Bad”), the two stars of David Auburn’s subtle “Summer, 1976,” an …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMWatching all the kids, many dressed as the Pink Ladies or 1950s rockers, filing into the theater was a fun sight.
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In 1958, the brilliant pianist and humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar.
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Jodie Comer, famous for her work on the British TV series “Killing Eve,” offers up a stunning performance.
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Larissa FastHorse's play, which opened Thursday night in New York by Second Stage, is a funny and cutting piece of work that suffers from its own moral earnestness.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PM"I had no desire to be involved with a jukebox musical, in terms of rehashing or redoing something."
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This politically incorrect show is a total blast and one of the very few Broadway attractions where kids are encouraged to talk back to the annoying actors.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMPlaywright Donnetta Lavinia Grays keeps the focus on the girl tugged and pulled by the adults in her life.
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This is as moralistic a musical as you've ever seen, going far more in that direction than did the Alanis Morissette album.
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This is the chilliest “Camelot” you ever did see, and embodies many of the current neuroses surrounding the revival of classic American musicals.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:30PMIf the playwright can let the character who so fascinated her take center stage, she’ll have something truly of note.
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In playwright James Ijames’ eye-popping play, a malcontent named Juicy is chilling in his North Carolina backyard when his recently deceased dad pops up out of his patio grill.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMAlso on tap during the five-show subscription season on Halsted Street: “POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive."
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Anton Chekhov’s play, as adapted by the director and performed by many of Falls’ favorite actors, is everything I had hoped it would be. Everything and more.
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The show roars with life throughout: there’s a sense of pent-up energy and a kind of raw, vulnerable intensity.
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There was something apt about the opening of the national tour of “A Soldier’s Play” in Chicago on a night when the city elected its third Black mayor.
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Like an episode of “Hee Haw” written by Mel Brooks, the timely new musical “Shucked” opened Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre with more gags than every other current Broadway …
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The stage show uses huge puppets that are walking examples of the single greatest innovation in puppetry ever to hit the stage.
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The Goodman’s 98th year has many tantalizing highlights, including a new show created and performed by the actor Dana Delany.
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Invictus Theatre Company was also a big winner. The nominated season included 106 shows opening between July 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2022.
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This must-see production lets Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s gothic revenge story do its thing, without reinvention.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
Maurice White’s life forms the spine of Daryl Brooks’ “Reasons: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire,” the new show at Black Ensemble Theater.
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After a prolonged silence, the board of directors posted two open letters on the theater's website.
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This 1928 composition really never goes out of style, and as long as corruption, hypocrisy and virtue signaling remain a constituent part of human behavior, it never will.
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Like many revivals of entertainments from that time, “Dancin’” lands in a kind of uneasy middle ground between past and present, old ways and new.
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The founding artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater might possibly direct a show here or there in retirement, but the production that opened Thursday night on Navy Pier is the end …
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The new revival, which stars Ben Platt in the title role, is a more of an explicit indictment of Southern Republicans.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMThe secret sauce of jukebox musicals is they can roll back time. We get to hear Tina Turner at the height of her powers.
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