Monday, November 21, 2022
Despite being 25 years old on Broadway and outlasting the childhoods of my kids, “The Lion King” still manages to amaze adults and children with its level of spectacle.
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William Shakespeare still occupies his storied place in high school English classes but the Elizabethan dude is under attack.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMMaybe you want a big downtown musical ("Lion King") or you have your own annual favorite ("The Nutcracker"). But there are always new holiday shows to try (Manual Cinema). Read on.
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A new, off-Broadway play titled “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing” by The New Group is making winters in the Chicago suburb topical elsewhere.
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A new R&B musical with Broadway aspirations is headed to Chicago, titled “Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMMénages à trois are rare sights at the Lyric, but one makes an appearance in this rather ribald comic opera from Gioachino Rossini.
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The focus of the night, and of this production, is on an experienced actor who has had it up to her neck with the compromises needed to get and keep a job.
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Some kids get called “old souls,” a reference not just to surprising maturity but the hint of melancholy in their demeanor.
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“The Twenty-Sided Tavern” is an interactive entertainment, a live version of “Dungeons and Dragons,” where the audience can guide the game.
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Its story is now more a fable of a broken family that needs to be put back together, a theme that also was in Cameron Crowe’s film.
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In many ways, the play is a critique of bureaucratic power structures, endlessly empowered with putting people into Kafkaesque limbos.
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Director Henry Godinez’ new production opens in a freewheeling 1950s Havana playground of Cuban artistes and the Hotel Nacional.
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This play is drawn from his 2020 memoir, from his 1960s youth as the son of a Guinness barrel maker.
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An FBI special agent, known for her skills in profiling serial killers, returns to her small Florida town.
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For all the sadness in this work, it’s also humanistic and celebratory of diverse individuals, all under different kinds of stress.
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I have to report, in all fairness, that much of the audience around me was convulsed with laughter throughout the whole affair.
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Suzan-Lori Parks’ play is a phenomenal two-brother drama, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century.
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This complicated play moves backward and forwards in time, probing not just the story of Seacole but the whole question of how we view those who heal us.
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Brett Neveu specializes in plays that perplex the audience and many of them have been staged in his creative home on Wells Street.
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Actor Sean Hayes attended the joyous ceremony at the Drury Lane Theatre. Other top winners included A Red Orchid's “The Moors,” Teatro Vista’s “Somewhere Over the Border” and Porch…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:46PMRebecca Gilman’s extraordinary new play deserves the broadest possible audience; it deserves a Broadway run.
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The one-night-only, concert-style performance at the Cadillac Palace brought back Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Bible.
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In the original poems, Eve Ewing connects the events of 1919 subsequent racially charged events, ranging from the murder of Emmett Till to George Floyd protests.
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The play stars Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson and is directed by the actor’s wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMIn a major hire for the Glencoe theater, Braden Abraham was previously artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
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It’s an ironclad rule of comedy that you have to keep your big toe in the world of truth, which wasn't the case here.
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By really showing what it is like to fight the decay of your own mind, their principal ally is Maryann Plunkett, playing a woman fighting to recover her own memories and offering up as rich …
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Arthur Miller would surely have been delighted at the idea of a revival of his masterful play with an all-Black Loman family. It only intensifies the story.
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This new, Broadway-bound musical is now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie.
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