Monday, May 25, 2015
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Within the space of 72 hours last week, a pair of aging alpha males, one real, one fictional, said goodbye for good. Both feel like the last of their breed. Both carried great symbolic weigh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWithin the space of 72 hours last week, a pair of aging alpha males, one real, one fictional, said goodbye for good. Both feel like the last of their breed. Both carried great symbolic weigh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMFriday, May 22, 2015
In one of those prosaic upstairs studios at the Atheneum Theatre in Chicago, and with only a few projections, a bit of tape and a small amount of scenery for company, Kelvin Roston Jr. is ta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:17AMThursday, May 21, 2015
PJ Paparelli, the artistic director of American Theater Company in Chicago, a highly respected and nationally accomplished director of new plays, and the co-author of such potent works of do…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:13PMPJ Paparelli, the artistic director of the American Theater Company, a highly respected and nationally accomplished director of new plays, the co-author of such potent works of documentary t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:13PMPJ Paparelli, the artistic director of the American Theater Company, a highly respected and nationally accomplished director of new plays, the co-author of such potent works of documentary t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:13PMAmy Schumer's brother lives in Chicago, replete with wife, baby and at least one cat that sheds all over his sister. That family visit, Schumer said Wednesday night at the Laugh Factory, exp…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:23AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Taking a break from railing against the purported roundness of our planet, the Flat Earth Society was one of the first groups to argue that the six Apollo moon landings all were fakes, and t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:01PMTaking a break from railing against the purported roundness of our planet, the Flat Earth Society was one of the first groups to argue that the six Apollo moon landings all were fakes, and t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:01PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
In the early minutes of "Our New Girl," a tense domestic thriller from Britain that's now in its first Chicago production at Profiles Theatre, an Irish nanny named Annie arrives with her sui…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:26PMMonday, May 18, 2015
In the final weeks of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I found myself in the Mesopotamian Gallery at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. The then-director Karen Wilson was showing me p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:50PMSunday, May 17, 2015
In most musicals, factory work is presented as quotidian drudgery, something to be endured before heading out, say, to ride the carousel. But in the early minutes of "Shining Lives: A Musica…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMIn most musicals, factory work is presented as quotidian drudgery, something to be endured before heading out, say, to ride the carousel. But in the early minutes of "Shining Lives: A Musica…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMFriday, May 15, 2015
On Tuesday, the Goodman Theatre formally announced its new Alice B. Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement, a $15 million endeavor named for a beloved late trustee. Dedicated to educat…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:28PMThursday, May 14, 2015
Tragedy is an experience of chaos. Most great tragic actors eventually realize that truth. Whether it's Oedipus the King or Hamlet, these great characters aren't so much making decisions as …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, British radio and television was filled with so-called light entertainment, prime-time quiz shows, wish-fulfillment shows and variety shows with music and comedy…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:17PMChicago's Goodman Theatre is to expand its downtown facility at 170 N. Dearborn St. to include new classroom, meeting and rehearsal space for its educational programs. Dubbed the Alice B. Ra…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:30AMMonday, May 11, 2015
At one point in "The Little Foxes," Lillian Hellman's juicy morality melodrama of 1939, the amoral entrepreneur Ben Hubbard delivers a prescient little speech about the future. Soon, he opin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PMSunday, May 10, 2015
With all the focus on the development of earnest, worthy, politically predictable new plays around Chicago, Theater Wit has been able to carve out a very simple but savvy niche. It favors fr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:57PMFriday, May 8, 2015
In 1944, Johnny Cash's beloved older brother, Jack, was pulled into a head saw in the mill where the kid worked to help his cash-strapped family. He died a week later from his horrific injur…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:56PMAlong with an increased pollen count, May is high season for the spring ritual known as annual benefits. For those rare creatures who relish plated chicken breast and bottomless decaf, these…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08PM 
