Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Bette Midler, one of the biggest names and personalities in the entertainment business, will star in a new Broadway revival of the beloved Jerry Herman musical "Hello Dolly," it was announce…
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There's no Don Draper, but meet the Mad Women of "London Wall." You're forgiven for never having heard of the latter drama. For one thing, it was written in 1931. For another, its author, Jo…
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As if in the proto-punk fever dreams of the youth of Frank Wedekind's "Spring Awakening," the musicians of the Marriott Theatre finally have been sprung from their glass-enclosed box. Like f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:38PMAs if in the proto-punk fever dreams of the youth of Frank Wedekind's "Spring Awakening," the musicians of the Marriott Theatre finally have been sprung from their glass-enclosed box. Like f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:34PMIn 1922, Louis Armstrong rode the train of talent up from New Orleans to Chicago, hoping to give up his Crescent City day job and blow his horn full time in the wind.
Armstrong married the p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:31PMIn 1922, Louis Armstrong rode the train of talent up from New Orleans to Chicago, hoping to give up his Crescent City day job and blow his horn full time in the wind.Armstrong married the pi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:12PMFriday, January 15, 2016
The last major new work from Dan LeFranc that was cooked up in Chicago, "The Big Meal," was a gorgeous, heart-wrenching drama and one of the best plays to premiere here in recent years. But …
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"She's a grandmother, she lives in a big house in Chicago, and you've never heard of her. Does she run the world?"
That was the first line of perhaps the most famous article ever written ab…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:34PM"She's a grandmother, she lives in a big house in Chicago, and you've never heard of her. Does she run the world?" That was the first line of perhaps the most famous article ever written abo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:37PMOn Saturday, the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire is opening "Spring Awakening."
That would not appear to be unusual. The 900-seat Marriott, a long-standing commercial operation, produces B…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
On Saturday, the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire is opening "Spring Awakening." That would not appear to be unusual. The 900-seat Marriott, a long-standing commercial operation, produces Br…
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Evan Linder, one of the Chicago theater's most prodigious talents, has achieved a great deal: he is the co-artistic director of the New Colony, a busy actor and a satiric storefront scribe w…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:12PMEvan Linder, one of the Chicago theater's most prodigious talents, has achieved a great deal: He is the co-artistic director of the New Colony, a busy actor and a satiric storefront scribe w…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:56PMMonday, January 11, 2016
At one point in "No Wake," an intense, three-character drama about a divorced couple dealing with the death of the estranged child they failed to understand, one of the parents wonders aloud…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:09PMAt one point in "No Wake," an intense, three-character drama about a divorced couple dealing with the death of the estranged child they failed to understand, one of the parents wonders aloud…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:36PMWhen I reviewed "Lazarus," the new David Bowie musical at the New York Theatre Workshop, we ran the headline "Space Oddity" on the report about what turned out to be one of the great man's f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:04PMWhen I reviewed "Lazarus," the new David Bowie musical at the New York Theatre Workshop, we ran the headline "Space Oddity" on the report about what turned out to be one of the great man's f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:06PMFriday, January 8, 2016
What can Chicago's arts and cultural leaders — and the city's huge creative community at large — do to alleviate the soul-deadening depression that settled over the city at the end of la…
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What can Chicago's arts and cultural leaders — and the city's huge creative community at large — do to alleviate the soul-deadening depression that settled over the city at the end of la…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:57PMLet's look ahead to what's likely to be going on in the business-that-is-show, here in the Middle West.
I'll begin with real estate; 2016 will be a banner year for new arts spaces. As desig…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:55PMLet's look ahead to what's likely to be going on in the business-that-is-show, here in the Middle West. I'll begin with real estate; 2016 will be a banner year for new arts spaces. As design…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:58PMThursday, December 31, 2015
The first half of 2016 promises an abundance of theatrical riches in Chicago. Shakespeare400, the citywide celebration of all things Shakespeare, gets under way. Several notable tours wend t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:22AMThe first half of 2016 promises an abundance of theatrical riches in Chicago. Shakespeare400, the citywide celebration of all things Shakespeare, gets under way. Several notable tours wend t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:34AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
In 2015 ...
... "Newsies" grossed more than $2 million in a single week in Chicago last January, the highest such take in the city's showbiz history. "The Iceman Cometh," one of the greates…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:04PMIn 2015 ... ... "Newsies" grossed more than $2 million in a single week in Chicago last January, the highest such take in the city's showbiz history. "The Iceman Cometh," one of the greatest…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:08PMFew Broadway shows have showcased dancers eligible for Medicare. Even fewer have called out the lie — the pervasive, soul-sucking, long lived lie — that a professional dancer is all wash…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:15AMFew Broadway shows have showcased dancers eligible for Medicare. Even fewer have called out the lie — the pervasive, soul-sucking, long-lived lie — that a professional dancer is all wash…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:59AMSunday, December 27, 2015
The divas still are dynamite at the Black Ensemble Theater, but they need to be allowed to run the show.
Conceived as a tribute to the great female recording artists of soul, Jackie Taylor'…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:04PMThe divas still are dynamite at the Black Ensemble Theater, but they need to be allowed to run the show. Conceived as a tribute to the great female recording artists of soul, Jackie Taylor's…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:50PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Martin Sheen was there. So was Gov. Pat Quinn, posing for pictures with some guy from "Chicago Fire." Mayor Rahm Emanuel was floating around on a higher level.
And the banks of the Chicago …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:38PMThis year's Chicagoan of the year for theater could have been the Chicagoan of the year in theater, or for dining, of any number of years.
William Pullinsi, who is 76 and retires Dec. 31 as…
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