Thursday, August 13, 2015
The Defiant Thomas Brothers are coming back. Why is that a big deal? You might well wonder, especially if you weren't in Chicago before 2006. That was the year the sketch comedy team of Paul…
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A new touring Canadian show about one of the most beloved of fictional detectives will make its United States premiere in Chicago in November, Broadway in Chicago has announced. "Sherlock Ho…
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House Theatre of Chicago is creating a new show based on one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history - the 1989 crash of a Chicago-bound United Airlines DC-10 flight in Sioux City, Iowa. …
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The venerable Cirque du Soleil is in a process of artistic and fiscal reinvention, driven by technological changes and the internal realization that some of its venerably whimsical touches h…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:26PMTo stare at the Jiffy Lube magazine rack the other day was to behold the power and the glory of Amy Schumer, a woman who, as recently as a year ago, could have gone in for a synthetic oil ch…
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NEW YORK - Stare at a $10 bill at the Richard Rodgers Theatre - you'll need one for a soda and tip - and you might discern an unusually chirpy expression on the grainy visage of Alexander Ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:05PMMeet the Tribune's Hot New Faces of the Chicago stage, our Top 10 for 2015. Each summer for the last eight years, we've picked a crop of Chicago's rising stars of the local theater.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:13PMAlthough hardly household names, TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi are revered figures in the world of improvisational comedy. Improvisers' improvisers, they are known in both Chicago and New …
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The play begins on a cross-country train headed back east in 1940. A young serviceman - recently discharged due his epilepsy but still wearing his uniform - is chatting up a traveling small-…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PMThe play begins on a cross-country train headed back east in 1940. A young serviceman - recently discharged due to his epilepsy but still wearing his uniform - is chatting up a traveling sma…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:53PMDisney's dancing "Newsies" are returning to Chicago in 2016. Broadway in Chicago said Wednesday that the first national tour of the movie adaptation and unexpected Broadway hit - now known f…
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Broadway in Chicago has booked a new touring production of the classic backstage musical "42nd Street," the Chicago presenter announced Tuesday. The production will be directed by Mark Bramb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:01PMIf someone in lederhosen were to shout at you "Ziggy, Ziggy, Ziggy," would you feel compelled to shout back "Oy, Oy, Oy"? Do you crave the chance to do a conga down Belmont Avenue with a guy…
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Paul Christiano was convicted in 1999 of purchasing child pornography through the mail. The offense, committed when Christiano was in his early 20s, obliged him to register as a sex offender…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:40PMThe Mission Theater, the venue-within-a-venue at the iO comedy theater in Chicago run by the famed Chicago improvisers TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi, is closing at the end of the month.
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In ego-fueled world of stand-up comedy, size matters. "Chicago, we sold this place out for three shows," the diminutive but blowing-up Kevin Hart crowed from the stage of the United Center…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:18PMLas Vegas has been through many reinventions - the Rat Pack era, the family-friendly moment, the uber-luxe resort era. But the profound, post-recession Vegas reinvention that has gone most u…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMIn ego-fueled world of stand-up comedy, size matters. "Chicago, we sold this place out for three shows," the diminutive but blowing-up Kevin Hart crowed from the stage of the United Center…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:58PMLas Vegas has been through many reinventions - the Rat Pack era, the family-friendly moment, the uber-luxe resort era. But the profound, post-recession Vegas reinvention that has gone most u…
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"We've got magic to do," says the Leading Player in "Pippin," the eclectic and bizarre musical artifact from 1972 that retains a remarkably special place in the hearts of audiences, includin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:52PMAt one point in "Feast," the moving and provocative show by the Albany Park Theatre Project, a young performer asks the audience a direct question: How many have been to the public aid offic…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AM"We move onstage and they say we're not dancers. We speak onstage and they say they we are not actors." There is no more eloquent defender of the men and women of the circus than Gypsy Sni…
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"We move onstage and they say we're not dancers. We speak onstage and they say they we are not actors." There is no more eloquent defender of the men and women of the circus than Gypsy Sni…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:27PMMichael Shannon, who is appearing at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago this fall, is to return to Broadway in the spring.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:45AMMichael Shannon, who is appearing at A Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago this fall, is to return to Broadway in the spring.
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Scott Adsit, the Second City veteran also known for his work on "30 Rock," is returning to Chicago Aug. 7 with a new improv concept, "Stolen House."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PMOne of the best off-Loop shows of the season, the Sideshow Theatre Company staging of "Stupid F---ing Bird," has reopened at the Victory Gardens Theater in an expanded commercial production,…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:45PMOne of the best off-Loop shows of the past season, the Sideshow Theatre Company staging of "Stupid F---ing Bird," has reopened at the Victory Gardens Theater in an expanded commercial produc…
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"Unspeakable," a new seven-character show billed as a "dramatic fantasia" inspired by the life and work of Richard Pryor is headed to the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago, Broadway in Chicago s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:50PM"Unspeakable," a new seven-character show billed as a "dramatic fantasia" inspired by the life and work of Richard Pryor is headed to the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago, Broadway in Chicago s…
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In 2012, I asked E.L. Doctorow to describe William Tecumseh Sherman's infamously destructive 1864 trek from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga. Doctorow didn't answer with how Sherman's March to the Se…
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