Thursday, March 16, 2023
The secret sauce of jukebox musicals is they can roll back time. We get to hear Tina Turner at the height of her powers.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:20PMStephen Sondheim’s much-anticipated final musical, “Here We Are,” will premiere in September at the electric New York venue known as The Shed.
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Rajiv Joseph’s play is a lot like watching 50 separate plays and then trying to put them in the right order in your head.
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Chicago’s Lyric Opera billed the season as a “global tour of opera featuring a richly curated slate of musical events in six different languages.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMThis first full production has vibrant characters, lots of funny family comedy, a delightful central performance from Becca Khalil.
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Experiencing the fascinating new revival of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House" is not unlike listening to a podcast.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMMahogany L. Browne's novel is now in a world-premiere adaption at Steppenwolf, full of beautiful language.
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This touring cast shows more affection for these characters and for material that always was progressive,
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMRosenkranz, who grew up in Mexico and sometimes performs shows in Spanish, is no frenetic, over-polished magician.
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People often end up marrying somebody they meet by chance, say on a train or a park bench, and they then spend years wondering whether the encounter was really random at all.
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Like the 2007 film, “Once” uses a couple (an Irish street musician and a young, Czech immigrant mother) who are always on the edge of a relationship.
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Sharyn Rothstein’s gutsy play is well cast and sharply staged, with its urgent question right there in the title.
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In a boost for the fall fortunes of the Loop’s entertainment district, the hit Lin-Manuel Miranda musical “Hamilton” is returning to Chicago this fall.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:41AMThe intent here, I think, is to universalize the story of the young Englishwoman in France, and not worry unduly about the original cultural specifics.
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The creepy thriller by Levi Holloway that premiered in 2019 in Chicago will open on Broadway in May.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AMCaryl Churchill’s play focuses on the rural inhabitants, especially the local women, who have to fight not only their corporate overlords but the sanctions of their own community.
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The lobby of the Cadillac Palace was abuzz at intermission with the remarkable vocal prowess of this touring cast.
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In 1940, the actress Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for her performance as Mammy in “Gone with the Wind,” becoming the first Black actor to have been nominated for, or to win, an O…
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Coming in the fall, the musical will be directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, who long has favored Chicago as his tryout city.
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Sunday, February 12, 2023
Most people going to the Cadillac Palace Theatre over the next three weeks will not be heading to the barricades for the first time. And they want their show as they remember it.
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The cool thing about Sharr White’s intriguing and rather haunting Broadway play “Pictures From Home" is that it actually gives the family enough ammunition to fight back.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023
The Chicago premiere of the Tony Award-winning play is a big "get" for the theater, which is partnering with Broadway in Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMIs there anything more fun than an opening night for “A Chorus Line?” When the curtain rose Friday night on a stage packed with dancers, the place erupted.
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"The Factotum" is a civic statement by Lyric Opera, an organization finally embracing locality as well as its long-standing leadership of international opera.
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This pull-no-punches play was written from the inside and if Shattered Globe can find a way to get the word out to Northwestern’s Greek Row, they’ll pack their theater.
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“Big Fish” is a show about familial love and its capacity to make our exits less painful. This production often it complicates everything needlessly.
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"Andy Warhol in Iran" imagines a scenario wherein Warhol encounters a young Iranian revolutionary, who plans to kidnap the famous face of pop art.
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How truly wonderful it is to see major international theater return to Chicago after the pandemic disruption.
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