Tuesday, November 17, 2015
A 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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:24PMSamuel 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 05:32PMMonday, November 16, 2015
Sophocles specialized in tense but humanistic dramas of passionate individuals trapped in impossible paradoxes. Euripides was a maverick and an iconoclast who loved upending his audience's m…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:47PMThere is more explicit sex in director Ethan McSweeny's American Theater Company production of Thomas Bradshaw's "Fulfillment" than any show you're likely to have seen. Unless, that is, you …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:31PMThere is more explicit sex in director Ethan McSweeny's American Theater Company production of Thomas Bradshaw's "Fulfillment" than any show you're likely to have seen. Unless, that is, you …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:53PMIn Stephen King's "Misery," a writer wakes from a serious car accident to find himself recovering in the spare bedroom of his self-nominated Number One Fan. Whether in the 1987 novel, the 19…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:56AMSunday, November 15, 2015
John Logan's carefully researched and clinically penned 1985 play "Never the Sinner," now the subject of a skillful new production at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre directed by Gary Gr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:23PMIn Stephen King's "Misery," a writer wakes from a serious car accident to find himself recovering in the spare bedroom of his self-nominated Number One Fan. Whether in the 1987 novel, the 19…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:53PMFriday, November 13, 2015
In the recent Republican presidential debates, the moderators have made as much news as the candidates. During the notorious CNBC extravaganza of Oct. 28, the candidates were so furious with…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:04PMIn the recent Republican presidential debates, the moderators have made as much news as the candidates. During the notorious CNBC extravaganza of Oct. 28, the candidates were so furious with…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:18PMThursday, November 12, 2015
NEW YORK — The white-hot director Ivo van Hove is not the first to embrace the passionate smolder behind Arthur Miller's 1955 play of forbidden passion in Italian-American Brooklyn, or to …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:36PMThe Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which opens the Bruce Norris play "Domesticated" on Dec. 13, is the Chicago theatrical equivalent of REI, which enjoyed all kinds of publicity after declarin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:32PMThe Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which opens the Bruce Norris play "Domesticated" on Dec. 13, is the Chicago theatrical equivalent of REI, which enjoyed all kinds of publicity after declarin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PMPatti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, two of Broadway's most acclaimed divas, will come to Chicago's Goodman Theatre in June to star in a new, likely Broadway-bound musical about the famous r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:51PMPatti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, two of Broadway's most acclaimed divas, will come to Chicago's Goodman Theatre in June to star in a new, likely Broadway-bound musical about the famous r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:16PMIn celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Chicago will host a huge interdisciplinary arts festival in 2016, dubbed "Shakespeare 400." Led by the Chicago Sh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:08PMIn celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Chicago will host a huge interdisciplinary arts festival in 2016, dubbed "Shakespeare 400." Led by the Chicago Sh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Few of us would crave a memorial song that begins with an image of our body "a-mouldering in the grave," but that was the fate of abolitionist John Brown in the prelude to the Civil War, who…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:07PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
Earlier this year, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it would be retiring the stars of its show — part of the circus for an astonishing 145 years — the Asian elephants.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:13PMEarlier this year, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced it would be retiring the stars of its show — part of the circus for an astonishing 145 years — the Asian elephants.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:21PMIn January, the Mercury Theater will stage a musical in development for some two decades: "The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes."
Conceived years ago by John Reeger and the late Julie Shann…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:38PMIn January, the Mercury Theater will stage a musical in development for some two decades: "The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes." Conceived years ago by John Reeger and the late Julie Shanno…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:42PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Tanned, twitchy and with a huge pair of glasses attached to his oversized skull as his stirs his cranberry sauce, Michael Shannon on the stage of A Red Orchid Theatre looks nothing so much l…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:14PMTanned, twitchy and with a huge pair of glasses attached to his oversized skull as his stirs his cranberry sauce, Michael Shannon on the stage of A Red Orchid Theatre looks nothing so much l…
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NEW YORK - George Takei is widely beloved for his role as Hikaru Sulu on "Star Trek." Now 78 years old, his eyes still pulsing with life and charm, the veteran actor is at center stage of "A…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:16PMIn "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin," currently at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago, it is noted that Berlin wrote the song "White Christmas" while lounging, drink in hand, around the poo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:52PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Harlan W. Haimes, a periodontist in Northbrook for 40 years, a past president of the Illinois Society of Periodontists, and, with his wife Susan, an indefatigable supporter of Chicago-area …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:10PMHarlan W. Haimes, a periodontist in Northbrook for 40 years, a past president of the Illinois Society of Periodontists, and with his wife Susan, an indefatigable supporter of Chicago-area t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:32PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Very few recording artists have sold 100 million records, achieved a truly global level of fame, created their own crossover sound in ballad and dance tracks, and managed to subvert the musi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:38PMQueen Elizabeth II must end her longest-running reign sometime. What happens next in the United Kingdom? Broadway plays explore the issue.
The queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:40PMQueen Elizabeth II must end her longest-running reign sometime. What happens next in the United Kingdom? Broadway plays explore the issue.The queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia a…
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