Wednesday, December 23, 2015
This 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…
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 …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:58AMTuesday, December 22, 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 R…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:41PMMonday, December 21, 2015
Redmoon, an unusual performance company specializing in public theatrical spectacles and a part of Chicago's cultural fabric for 25 years, is going out of business, effective immediately."We…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:47PMRedmoon, an unusual performance company specializing in public theatrical spectacles and a part of Chicago's cultural fabric for 25 years, is going out of business, effectively immediately. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:16PMThursday, December 17, 2015
In the summer of 2014, an ordinary young boy from Liverpool, England, decided he'd finally seen something bigger than the Beatles.
He'd stood in a crowd of about 300,000, watching three gia…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:20PMIn the summer of 2014, an ordinary young boy from Liverpool, England, decided he'd finally seen something bigger than the Beatles. He'd stood in a crowd of about 300,000, watching three gian…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:18PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
The Chicago actor — dedicated, trained, poorly compensated, ensemble-minded, unconcerned with celebrity — is one of this city's most overlooked assets. Here, in an end-of-year celebratio…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:40PMThe Chicago actor — dedicated, trained, poorly compensated, ensemble-minded, unconcerned with celebrity — is one of this city's most overlooked assets. Here, in an end-of-year celebratio…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:19PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Last Saturday night would have been the 100th birthday of the Chairman of the Board.
What board, you ask?
Of picking yourself up and getting back in the race. Of understanding the length o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PMLast Saturday night would have been the 100th birthday of the Chairman of the Board. What board, you ask? Of picking yourself up and getting back in the race. Of understanding the length of …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:15PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Here is what is on offer for your holiday pleasure at the Royal George Theatre: a trio of attractive men of a certain age, each with a formidable voice and a great deal of self-deprecating c…
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A public official stands at a podium, his steely-faced wife by his side. You can see that he is angry, feeling forced into this situation. He speaks into the microphones. He says that he'll …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:39PMA public official stands at a podium, his steely-faced wife by his side. You can see that he is angry, feeling forced into this situation. He speaks into the microphones. He says that he'll …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:09PMSo you can "Twist Your Dickens" once for fun and profit. But can you scratch your Cratchit a second time? Tricky, that, tricky.
To be fair to Second City, the venerable comedy theater spent…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:03PMFriday, December 11, 2015
A troupe of giant puppets will not be roaming the streets of Chicago next year after all.
After two years of work and months of negotiations, the city notified event organizers Thursday that…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:07PMSo you can "Twist Your Dickens" once for fun and profit. But can you scratch your Cratchit a second time? Tricky, that, tricky. To be fair to Second City, the venerable comedy theater spent …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:45PM"Mr. Burns" offered an intellectual thrill inspired by Bart Simpson. A Tupperware musical could not contain itself. A "Godot" arrived. No question there was a "Doubt." "Twisted Melodies" pla…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PMWhat was the best show on Broadway in 2015? If you judge these things by emotional impact, and the matching of form to theme, and good, old-fashioned artistic guts laid out right there befor…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:44AMWhen Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was turned into a Steven Spielberg movie in 1985, Celie, Sofia and Shug Avery all became household names. But the conversation intimacy and sugar-and-s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:44AM"Mr. Burns" offered an intellectual thrill inspired by Bart Simpson. A Tupperware musical could not contain itself. A "Godot" arrived. No question there was a "Doubt." "Twisted Melodies" pla…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:20AMThursday, December 10, 2015
When Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was turned into a Steven Spielberg movie in 1985, Celie, Sofia and Shug Avery all became household names. But the conversation intimacy and sugar-and-s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PM"Hamilton," the Broadway musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is launching its first national tour in Chicago, it was announced this week. The show is about the first secretar…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:07AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
The new, old comedy at Chicago Shakespeare Theater begins with a flatulent grandfather clock — who knew? — and proceeds directly from there to the loud squawk of an unseen 18th-century F…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:18PM"Hamilton," the Broadway musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is launching its first national tour in Chicago, it was announced this week. The show is about the first secretar…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
"Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hot, hip-hop fueled Broadway musical about the face on the $10 bill, will launch its first national tour in Chicago with an extended run beginning Sept. 27, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:03PMFew shows have sold out their entire run as quickly — it took only minutes. Even fewer have been mounted with such secrecy — meaningful advance information about the script, the characte…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:57AMMonday, December 7, 2015
Few shows have sold out their entire run as quickly — it took only minutes. Even fewer have been mounted with such secrecy — meaningful advance information about the script, the characte…
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The third in a savvy trifecta of separate but strikingly similar, mostly British musicals, all about empowering creative kids and their unconventional teachers — and, in the words of the p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:32PMIt now has been 18 years since Julie Taymor's "The Lion King" bowed on Broadway, and the tour that officially opened at the Cadillac Palace Theatre Friday has been carting giraffes on stilts…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:18PMIt now has been 18 years since Julie Taymor's "The Lion King" bowed on Broadway, and the tour that officially opened at the Cadillac Palace Theatre Friday has been carting giraffes on stilts…
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