Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Fevered sex does not make a regular appearance on the stage of the Lifeline Theatre, the venerable Rogers Park theater better known for its literary adaptations of works by Jane Austen or Do…
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Of all Shakespeare's great tragedies, none feel as personal as that of the Moor of Venice. This is, fundamentally, a play of the bedroom, a claustrophobic, voyeuristic drama about the perils…
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So how persistent — and culturally significant — will be the affection of millennials for analog media? This strikes me as one of the more interesting and largely open questions of the…
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Most great American dramas of familial anguish and conflict are driven by outrageous individual behavior. But what distinguishes Stephen Karam's inestimably kind, rich and beautiful new play…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PMIn Annie Baker's wonderful play "The Flick" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the very gifted actor Danny McCarthy is doing the best work of a New York and Chicago career that, at once, ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:39PMIn Annie Baker's wonderful play "The Flick" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the very gifted actor Danny McCarthy is doing the best work of a New York and Chicago career that, at once, ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:34PMAmerican Theater Company has hired a new artistic director — Will Davis, a 33-year-old, New York-based director and choreographer who will now become one of the very few transgender creati…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:28PMAmerican Theater Company has hired a new artistic director — Will Davis, a 33-year-old, New York-based director and choreographer who will now become one of the very few transgender creati…
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Roberto Bolano's overwhelming, high-modernist novel "2666" was published in 2004 — one year after the Chilean-born author's death, a result of liver failure, perhaps from a heroin habit ea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:25PMRoberto Bolano's overwhelming, high-modernist novel "2666" was published in 2004 — one year after the Chilean-born author's death, a result of liver failure, perhaps from a heroin habit ea…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:35PMMarc Salem lacks the bouffant coif — and the sex appeal — of David Copperfield. No matter. The grand illusion is not the 60-something Salem's shtick.
The son of a rabbi and a pharmacist…
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Marc Salem lacks the bouffant coif — and the sex appeal — of David Copperfield. No matter. The grand illusion is not the 60-something Salem's shtick. The son of a rabbi and a pharmacist,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PM"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the profoundly moving Broadway show about an extraordinary British teenager, will play Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a three-week engage…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:32AM"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the profoundly moving Broadway show about an extraordinary British teenager, will play Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a three-week engage…
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At one point in "The Flick," Annie Baker's gorgeous, angst-ridden, ennobling celebration of the movie theater usher, one of the central ticket-taking characters observes that one night, afte…
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Does Marco Rubio need Second City? It certainly looked that way in New Hampshire on Feb. 6. At the eighth Republican debate, the prominent candidate for the Republican Party's presidential n…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:24AMIf ever there was a week for optimism about the state of Chicago theater, this feels like that week. The Shakespeare 400 festival, centered on Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, is al…
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Second City will announce Tuesday that it is opening what it calls "the world's first film school dedicated to comedy."
The new venture at the comedy institution's Chicago headquarters is t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:19AMSecond City will announce Tuesday that it is opening what it calls "the world's first film school dedicated to comedy." The new venture at the comedy institution's Chicago headquarters is to…
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If a King Lear could still be said to exist anywhere in the world, then Alexander Lukashenko, the president of the Republic of Belarus, is about as close a candidate as you could find. In of…
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"Yes. Yes," shouted Tracy Morgan as he took the stage at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond on Friday night, his skull pointed toward the heavens.
"Oh my God," he yelled, as cheers started to …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:43AM"Yes. Yes," shouted Tracy Morgan as he took the stage at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond on Friday night, his skull pointed toward the heavens. "Oh my God," he yelled, as cheers started to b…
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To the august members of the Explorers Club, a wacky crew of Victorian-era Brits who all look and behave like refugees from some half-baked Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, women are dangerous…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:38PMHow did Writers Theatre, a theater that formerly spent much of its history playing to 60 people in the back of a struggling suburban book store, and then to 110 people inside an old-school w…
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Michael Tiknis, the president of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance for the last 12 years, said Thursday night that he has decided to leave his post at the end of this year
"It felt ti…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:03PMMichael Tiknis, the president of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance for the last 12 years, said Thursday night that he has decided to leave his post at the end of this year. "It felt ti…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:36PMDavid Mamet's "American Buffalo" was the in-your-face drama that inspired Rich Cotovsky to get into the theater business. So when Cotovsky's Mary-Arrchie Theatre was making plans for its las…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:50AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
The latest endeavor from the restless minds at the House Theatre of Chicago is not so much a show as a puzzle room, constructed in the basement of the Chopin Theatre. Therein, an audience wi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:04PMThe latest endeavor from the restless minds at the House Theatre of Chicago is not so much a show as a puzzle room, constructed in the basement of the Chopin Theatre. Therein, an audience wi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:25PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
James Corden, the 37-year-old, British-born host of "The Late Late Show with James Corden" on CBS, will host the 2016 Tony Awards, it was announced Tuesday.
Corden has theater credits on bo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:33PMJames Corden, the 37-year-old, British-born host of "The Late Late Show with James Corden" on CBS, will host the 2016 Tony Awards, it was announced Tuesday. Corden has theater credits on bot…
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