Would you buy two years of theater tickets — say, 20 different shows — just to get tickets to "Hamilton"? That's the current ask by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:47PMThe writer-performer Dael Orlandersmith is to be the first artist in residence at the Goodman Theatre’s new Alice Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement, a new suite of classrooms, r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:34PMChicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel issued a pair of proclamations on Wednesday, one in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and the other recognizing the two decades of…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:33PMIn this age of binge-watched "Game of Thrones" and the George Lucas Museum of Endless Narrative Arts, it's probably not surprising that nobody seems to want to do just one of Shakespeare's h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:36PMCarol Burnett and Julie Andrews once staged a lesbian love scene outside of a hotel elevator, passionate kisses that were intended to amuse Mike Nichols, and only Mike Nichols, until the ele…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:12AMThe planned Broadway musical about Harry Houdini remains stalled. But the House Theatre of Chicago's intimate, illusion-filled tribute to the justly celebrated scion of Appleton, Wis., is ba…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:02PMAlthough now a staging area for the high-priced eateries and towering condominiums of the West Loop, Chicago's Haymarket Square has a history of blood. On May 4, 1886, — 130 years ago — …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PMAh, the grim lot of the Disney Princess: Drawn by a man, saddled with an improbably perfect figure, Americanized, commoditized, sanitized and morally burdened with assuring successive genera…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:03PMIt's "Death of a Salesman" meets "Fifty Shades of Grey"! That would, at least, work as an accurate elevator pitch for the bizarre new for-profit attraction in the Royal George Theatre's caba…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:59PMDid you know Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy all wrote their own versions of the Bible? Ah! The ego of the refined mind! Hello, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Thomas, Charles a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:27PMThe Five Lesbian Brothers aren't siblings but a downtown performance company in New York known for ensemble-driven satires involving copious and garish amounts of blood, nudity, sex and othe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:36PM"The Bardy Bunch," an Off-Broadway mash-up parody that imagines the Partridge Family and the Brady Bunch as Shakespearean feuding families in their own war of the sitcom roses, is headed to …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:37AMNow at TimeLine Theatre, Lucy Kirkwood's "Chimerica" is a sprawling epic drama that takes on the amorality of the atrophying media, the mutual hypocrisy informing U.S.-China relations and th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMSo just how funny is the president of the United States? It's surely time for a critical assessment, given Barack Obama's extensive recent foray into the world of arts and entertainment. In …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:22PMA new dinner-theater show based on a happily sadistic and slapstick Japanese game show is coming to Chicago, offering Midwestern revelers the chance to eat Sushi in the company of a quartet …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:47AMTwo fascinating new theater projects are taking shape in Chicagoland: one in Lake Forest and the other in the Edgewater neighborhood. Let's start in the north suburb, where a real estate ent…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00AMSo here comes an extraordinary play, a drama so infused with emotional intelligence, linguistic treasures and the human conditions of dread and longing that it keeps you bolt-upright in your…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:48PMSo what would happen if George and Martha headed down to New Orleans and met Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski and Willy Loman? And if they did, would you care? The answer to that question mi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00AMA decade ago, intimate productions of Broadway musicals were rare in Chicago, the city's gritty storefront denizens mostly preferring to sink their teeth into edgier, riskier fare. But this …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:40PMIn March 1959, Lorraine Hansberry, a graduate of Englewood High School in Chicago, became the first African-American woman to pen a play produced on Broadway. Less than six years later she d…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:16PMAn interesting phenomenon hit my mailbox Tuesday, just a few minutes after the Tony Award nominations: People from New York started writing to tell me they were coming to Chicago to see a Br…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:13PMChicago's storied Steppenwolf Theatre Company said on Wednesday that it has added two new acting members to its vaunted and ever-growing ensemble of actors. The new inductees are the Chicago…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25AMThe ten-dollar founding father stole the cannons of his Broadway rivals as Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" dominated the 2016 Tony Award nominations. When the smoke had cleared from the dela…
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun Subscription at 02:13PMThe ten-dollar founding father stole the cannons of his Broadway rivals as Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" dominated the 2016 Tony Award nominations. When the smoke had cleared from the dela…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:35AMAnna Leonowens arrives in Siam in widow's weeds, a bereaved colonialist determined to lose herself in her work. She is not yet old enough to abandon her sexual being, but it is just one of t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:18PMThe admirably fearless new revue at the Second City e.t.c., "A Red Line Runs Through It," mostly runs right through Mayor Rahm Emanuel, whose outsized smiling visage is such a visual and the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:01PMAre Michael Shannon and Jessie Mueller the best actors Chicago has ever produced? Watching them dominate their current new Broadway productions certainly leads one to wonder. Shannon laps th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:24AMIt is no mean feat to revive an archaic but seminal Broadway musical — in this case, the all-black musical comedy "Shuffle Along" of 1921 — and create an entertainment that not only cele…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PMHits? The Chicago theater's got 'em. But as always in this town, where commercial enhancement money for local productions is very hard to find, it's tough to keep 'em open. Exhibit A is "Dre…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AMBetween the scenes of Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical masterwork, scenes currently inhabited by such famous actors as Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher, Jr.,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PMThe Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee loves the work of the little cabaret theater known for its excellence in the heart of Rogers Park: Theo Ubique Theatre emerged Tuesday night as the Chic…
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