Sunday, December 6, 2015
It 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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What are we to make of these bizarre later Broadway endeavors by the man from Chicago who wrote some of the greatest dramas of the 20th century? Are they soupcons? Digressions or meditations…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMNEW YORK — What are we to make of these bizarre later Broadway endeavors by the man from Chicago who wrote some of the greatest dramas of the 20th century? Are they soupcons? Digressions o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:14AMIt's a cold fall morning at New 42nd Street Studios, the maternity ward for most new Broadway musicals. Choreographer Nick Kenkel is standing facing a mirror, leading a crucial warmup. "Juni…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:27AMIt's a cold fall morning at New 42nd Street Studios, the maternity ward for most new Broadway musicals. Choreographer Nick Kenkel is standing facing a mirror, leading a crucial warmup. "Juni…
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Like the Internal Revenue Service, Brussels sprouts, synchronized swimmers and Rodney Dangerfield, baritones get no respect.
Sure, everyone loves a tenor, their high Cs ringing out like gon…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:52PMIf you're playing Carole King in a jukebox show titled "Beautiful — The Carole King Musical," you have to deal with being compared to one of the most beloved singer-songwriters in American…
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Gone are the handsome Stephen Colbert wannabes in their crisp shirts and ties. Retired are the camera-ready, studiously neutral Jon Stewart acolytes, all prepumped up for fake news or weeken…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:13PMLike the Internal Revenue Service, Brussels sprouts, synchronized swimmers and Rodney Dangerfield, baritones get no respect. Sure, everyone loves a tenor, their high Cs ringing out like gond…
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Within every British male breast beats a feverish insecurity concerning the French — especially when it comes to matters of pleasing women in matters of love.
You can see this timeless na…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:22PMWithin every British male breast beats a feverish insecurity concerning the French — especially when it comes to matters of pleasing women in matters of love. You can see this timeless nat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:17PMOn Tuesday night, the first national tour of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" arrives in Chicago for a 12-week engagement at the Oriental Theatre. In the title role will be Abby Mueller,…
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A metallic flagpole has been set up in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre in Aurora and at Sunday night's opening of "A Christmas Story — The Musical" it was quite the magnet for tongues. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:34PMA metallic flagpole has been set up in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre in Aurora and at Sunday night's opening of "A Christmas Story — The Musical" it was quite the magnet for tongues. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:02PMFriday, November 27, 2015
Three days after the Chicago premiere of Spike Lee's much-discussed movie "Chi-Raq," a provocatively titled but strikingly hopeful film about the scourge of gun deaths in Chicago, a Cook Cou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:51PMAt the end of the new touring production of "Sherlock Holmes," at the Oriental Theatre for Thanksgiving week, that great breathy saxophone solo from the late Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit "Baker…
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Three days after the Chicago premiere of Spike Lee's much-discussed movie "Chi-Raq," a provocatively titled but strikingly hopeful film about the scourge of gun deaths in Chicago, a Cook Cou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:41PMAt the end of the new touring production of "Sherlock Holmes," at the Oriental Theatre for Thanksgiving week, that great breathy saxophone solo from the late Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit "Baker…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:15PMTheater icon Stephen Sondheim was given the Carl Sandburg Literary Award on Oct. 21 by the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Sondheim was interviewed on stage by Scott Simon of National Pub…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:58AMTheater icon Stephen Sondheim was given the Carl Sandburg Literary Award on Oct. 21 by the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Sondheim was interviewed on stage by Scott Simon of National Pub…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:49AMMonday, November 23, 2015
"No More Sad Things," the world premiere at the Richard Christiansen Theater at the Biograph, is about a holiday romance on Maui — a kind of Pacific version of "How Stella Got Her Groove B…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:22PM"No More Sad Things," the world premiere at the Richard Christiansen Theater at the Biograph, is about a holiday romance on Maui — a kind of Pacific version of "How Stella Got Her Groove B…
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Attending a satirical show named after the term for chest pain often deriving from coronary artery disease was perhaps a foolhardy way to spend a Saturday night, but the title alone of "Angi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:35PMAttending a satirical show named after the term for chest pain often deriving from coronary artery disease was perhaps a foolhardy way to spend a Saturday night, but the title alone of "Angi…
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The saddest holiday show in Chicago is to be found at the Strawdog Theatre in Chicago, where a new production this year of Paula Vogel's "The Long Christmas Ride Home" offers the apt reminde…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:30PMThe saddest holiday show in Chicago is to be found at the Strawdog Theatre in Chicago, where a new production this year of Paula Vogel's "The Long Christmas Ride Home" offers the apt reminde…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:11PMArt is never experienced in a vacuum. It morphs according to context. It reinvents itself with the changing mental state of the viewer. However much you try to wall off a painting, quieten t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:22AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Put this question in your Thanksgiving trivia contest: Which character from popular English-language literature has been played by more stage and screen actors than any other?
It's not Eben…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:51PMPut this question in your Thanksgiving trivia contest: Which character from popular English-language literature has been played by more stage and screen actors than any other? It's not Ebene…
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Samuel D. Hunter's beautiful new drama "Pocatello" is set in a very small town in Idaho where there are no paternalistic newspaper editors nor empathetic doctors, nor even an intimidating sc…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:52PMA lust for the abiding pleasures of non-conformity — otherwise known as embracing la vie boheme, telling the boss to stuff it, or moving to Portland, Ore., — beat inside many a fevered b…
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