Friday, July 24, 2015
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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Theater Wit's production of the Joshua Harmon comedy "Bad Jews" has turned into quite a hit. After a successful run this spring at Theater Wit on Belmont Avenue, the show moved to the North …
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Northlight Theatre is to produce a world-premiere drama by the Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins at the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre (1624 N. Halsted St.) in the fall.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:46PMAbout Face Theatre has announced its 2016 season, the 20th anniversary of the theater company dedicated to plays with LGBT themes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:04PMKelly Leonard, the longtime producer and artistic leader of Second City and a major force behind both the renaissance and expansion of the Chicago comedy troop and its alumni's current domi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:38PMKelly Leonard, the longtime producer and artistic leader of Second City and a major force behind both the renaissance and expansion of the Chicago comedy troupe and its alumni's current domi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:32AMTo love is to repeat. Not always, you might argue. But then Gertrude Stein probably would not define what you are talking about as love. And who are any of us to argue with Gertrude Stein?
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The new musical "Beaches," which you can currently see at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, deserves a shot on Broadway. I say this not least because I sniffled and blubbered my wa…
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Ever since "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" won its Tony Awards, the British playwright Simon Stephens has been a bonafide Broadway name. But before New York even remotely…
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NEW YORK - The message of "Amazing Grace" - that the most despicable, slave-owning wretch can see the light and the errors of past ways and become a force for reconciliation - is an aspirati…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:27PMAl Hirschfeld was the most famous caricaturist in the world. And yet Hirschfeld wasn't really a caricaturist, given that the term implies exaggeration and distortion. Hirschfeld preferred th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:16PMAl Hirschfeld was the most famous caricaturist in the world. And yet Hirschfeld wasn't really a caricaturist, given that the term implies exaggeration and distortion. Hirschfeld preferred th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:07PMHow does Sandra Bernhard handle people with cellphones, the current scourge of comedians minor and great? "People don't do that at my show," she said dismissively. "My people are very attent…
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Now and again, Black Ensemble Theatre indulges in what the founder Jackie Taylor dryly calls "non-traditional casting," which is to say a couple of white guys show up in the show.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:53PMAbena Joan Brown, one of the early pioneers of African-American theater in Chicago and the president and chief executive officer of the eta Creative Arts Foundation for 40 years, died on Sun…
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For much of "The Little Mermaid," the summer attraction from Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, I found myself listening to two shows at once.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:44PMThe Gift Theatre has announced its 2016 season, which includes a production of William Shakespeare's "Richard III," to be presented in the Garage Theatre at Steppenwolf with the Gift artisti…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:26PMAmerican Theater Company said Monday it will hold a public memorial for its former artistic director, PJ Paparelli, who died following an automobile accident in Scotland in May. The 90-minut…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:28PMAmerican Theater Company said Monday it will hold a public memorial for its former artistic director, PJ Paparelli, who died following an automobile accident in Scotland in May.
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Grand Concourse, a magnificent thoroughfare in the Bronx, was modeled on the Champs-Elysees but, as with sections of Chicago's roughly contemporaneous Boulevard System, current economic real…
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Clashes between artists and technology-wielding patrons are increasing in intensity. On Wednesday night, the actress Patti LuPone grabbed a cellphone out of a startled audience member's hand…
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Clashes between artists and technology-wielding patrons are increasing in intensity. On Wednesday night, the actress Patti LuPone grabbed a cellphone out of a startled audience member's hand…
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I happened to talk to Cyndi Lauper on the morning last week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. "I was crying," said the pop icon and the woman who made the song "True Col…
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Collaboraction, the Chicago theater company known for its recent devised works responding to the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago, has hired its first executive director, Darcy Addison.
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Strawdog Theatre Company says it will be leaving its longtime home at 3829 N. Broadway in June 2016 and is looking for a new home.
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
The critically acclaimed Pixar movie "Inside Out" grossed a head-spinning $91 million in its opening weekend. Not bad for a movie that is not based on any source, is not part of any kind of …
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The Chicago director Gary Griffin will return to work at the Startford Festival in 2016, the Canadian festival announced Wednesday, along with the rest of its major 2016 offerings. He will d…
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"I dreamed I was 52 and unmarried," says Sonia, one of the trio of siblings in Christopher Durang's very droll new comedy featuring the middle-aged children of a pair of academics, literary …
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Back in 2008, the Route 66 Theatre Company made its debut with a fine production of a memorable play by John Kolvenbach, "On an Average Day." That quotidian title kept swimming around my hea…
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