Friday, October 7, 2022
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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In this production of the much-loved Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, they are open to the charge of bait and switch.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMThe 63-year-old sketch comedy operation, headquartered throughout its history in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, plans to open a theater in New York City.
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Sunday, October 2, 2022
This brilliant work is set in the same room in Vienna but sprawls across decades and generations as it follows two affluent Jewish families connected by marriage.
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They were handed out buttons in the lobby of the Nederlander Theatre: “I’ve seen ‘Wicked’ (blank) times."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:20AMThe series is co-created by Chicago's Jeremy McCarter, co-author of official books on Lin-Manuel Miranda's “Hamilton” and “In the Heights."
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“Clyde’s,” a lively comedy by Lynn Nottage directed with an ebullient theatricality by Kate Whoriskey, is inestimably clever.
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This show, formerly by Teatro ZinZanni, has always been what you might describe as a glamorous night on the town. And the fabulous Frank Ferrante is back.
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Remarkable things happen in the cramped basement of the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park. What a thrilling Chicago-style musical!
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Lindsay Joelle’s two-person show “The Garbologists” is courageous enough to probe the intersection of race and class.
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The hit Goodman Theatre production of “Good Night, Oscar” is headed to Broadway in the spring.
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Director Barrie Kosky’s breathtaking production brings this title newly to life without ever straying far from why it's such a favorite in the first place.
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The always remarkable Heidi Kettenring imagines a character whose sociability clearly is something of a cover for a widow’s loneliness.
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Best remembered now as the movie starring Cary Grant, “Arsenic and Old Lace” was a Broadway hit in the '40s. But in 2022, it’s a rarity.
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If you’re a fan of "Dreamgirls," a schlep to Aurora is very much worth the effort to see the new production at the Paramount Theatre.
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“I’m a big fan of the institution. I want to continue scaling the business and see how we can honor the brand.”
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The Steppenwolf season opener begins with historical truth that George Washington’s 1799 will and testament emancipated their estate after the death of his wife.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022
Friday, September 9, 2022
This is, overall, a very ambitious production from director Jessica Fisch, attempting far more than your usual suburban thriller.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:16PMWe do not do as well when we sit alone. We need peers, togetherness and new ideas. And that’s exactly what the performing arts in Chicago have to offer.
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Rob Zabrecky brings a distinctive brand and a love of pushing things right to the edge and then maybe a little further.
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What looks promising on Chicago stages this fall? We pick 10 shows with local artists, put on by Chicago theaters.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMIt sure reads to me like the playwright is using Chagall as a vessel here to argue that theaters should beat back demands for ideological purity.
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Second City’s e.t.c. Stage was founded as a place to take risks and the current revue thrives best when it takes that mission to heart.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Nominations are in for this year's theater awards for Chicago's largest theaters, with an especially competitive new play category.
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If you don’t know this beautiful memoir musical, it's based on a graphic novel by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, growing up in the 1970s in a small Pennsylvania town.
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