Monday, October 19, 2015
In 2012, Tribune columnist Dawn Turner Trice introduced Chicago to Gloria Allen, a 66-year-old transgender Chicagoan, who regularly ate lunch at the Center on Halsted with other senior membe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:14PMIn 2012, Tribune columnist Dawn M. Turner introduced Chicago to Gloria Allen, a 66-year-old transgender Chicagoan, who regularly ate lunch at the Center on Halsted with other senior members …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:48PMAfter more than seven years and nearly 3,000 performances at the Apollo Theater, "Million Dollar Quartet" finally is leaving the building — and the city that made the show a hugely profita…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:11PMAfter more than seven years and nearly 3,000 performances at the Apollo Theater, "Million Dollar Quartet" finally is leaving the building — and the city that made the show a hugely profita…
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"Did you read 'Treasure Island' as a child?" the woman in the seat next to me asked her companion before the Saturday opening of writer-director Mary Zimmerman's new show at the Lookingglass…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:01PM"Did you read 'Treasure Island' as a child?" the woman in the seat next to me asked her companion before the Saturday opening of writer-director Mary Zimmerman's new show at the Lookingglass…
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Caryl Churchill's "Love and Information," now in its Chicago premiere from the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, features 125 characters who appear in 57 distinct scenes. None of those scenes hav…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:32PMCaryl Churchill's "Love and Information," now in its Chicago premiere from the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, features 125 characters who appear in 57 distinct scenes. None of those scenes hav…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:56PMSteve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., the subject of the new Danny Boyle movie with a script by Aaron Sorkin, and the man who revolutionized the way we now consume information and constr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AMSteve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., the subject of the new Danny Boyle movie with a script by Aaron Sorkin, and the man who revolutionized the way we now consume information and constr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:45AMThursday, October 15, 2015
At the Evanston City Council meeting on Oct. 19, Northlight Theatre is slated to publicly reveal its interest in moving back to Evanston, the city where the theater company was founded by Gr…
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Anyone headed to a show about Richard Pryor, one of the funniest comedians of the 20th century, might reasonably expect some laughs. Edgy amusement, sure, since Pryor was known for his profa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00PMAt the Evanston City Council meeting on Oct. 19, Northlight Theatre is slated to publicly reveal its interest in moving back to Evanston, the city where the theater company was founded by Gr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:42PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
The first national tour of the critically acclaimed and Tony Award-winning musical, "Fun Home," is to play Chicago, the presenter and landlord Broadway in Chicago announced on Tuesday.
The…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMThe first national tour of the critically acclaimed and Tony Award-winning musical, "Fun Home," is to play Chicago, the presenter and landlord Broadway in Chicago announced on Tuesday. The …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:50PMSunday, October 11, 2015
After every school shooting, two debates rage. One involves gun control. The other concerns mental health, since we widely assume that to walk into a room of unarmed people and shoot them is…
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At the top of Elizabeth Irwin's "My Manana Comes," a couple of battle-scarred busboys are decompressing after a busy shift in a posh Manhattan eatery. Their mutually congratulatory war stori…
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Did Broadway save a bankrupt city of New York? Such a case is credibly made by New York Post columnist Michael Riedel in his fascinating new book, "Razzle Dazzle," published this week by Sim…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:12PMImagine the characters from "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." Or, if you prefer television, "Glee." Now imagine them all dead.
Those are the dramatis personae of "Ride the Cyclo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:07PMImagine the characters from "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." Or, if you prefer television, "Glee." Now imagine them all dead. Those are the dramatis personae of "Ride the Cyclon…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:46PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Visiting a class at Northwestern University the other day, I met a doctoral student, Eleanor Russell, whose research deals with stand-up comedians of the mid-20th century. As Russell explain…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:59PMIf you have ever been awoken by a fight in a neighboring apartment — or found yourself watching shadows in windows across the street — you might have sympathy for the genesis of "The Che…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:44AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Theater Wit needs to hang out a new shingle on Belmont Avenue: Theater for nerds. Madeleine George's terrific 2014 play "The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence" is the latest in a lin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMTheater Wit needs to hang out a new shingle on Belmont Avenue: Theater for nerds. Madeleine George's terrific 2014 play 'The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence" is the latest in a lin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:15PMNobody could accuse the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee of honoring the same old players. At the 2015 award ceremony Monday night, two dominant shows both were produced in their first year…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:43AMMonday, October 5, 2015
Is it legitimate to tell a story of Roger Ebert — the late, great film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, the formidably intellectual populist and the way-ahead-of-the-curve adopter of soci…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:14PMIs it legitimate to tell a story of Roger Ebert — the late, great film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, the formidably intellectual populist and the way-ahead-of-the-curve adopter of soci…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:11PMSunday, October 4, 2015
Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," now in a fine production from the Shattered Globe Theatre that includes the Tony award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan, is a comedy about so many of life's …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:13PMScott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," now in a fine production from the Shattered Globe Theatre that includes the Tony award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan, is a comedy about so many of life's …
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In 2011, Michael Riedel, the formidably sourced and eternally puckish theater columnist of the New York Post, was charged by his bosses with writing something on the eve of the Tony Awards. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:52AMOn Tuesday, my colleague John von Rhein reported, the board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and the musicians of that venerable orchestra attended separate meetings but came ou…
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