Monday, March 9, 2015
Between July 13 and July 20, 1995, when temperatures lingered at 106 degrees and the heat index reached 125 degrees, more than 700 Chicagoans died. A preponderance of those deaths were of mi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:57PMMary Zimmerman, the widely acclaimed Chicago theater artist behind such titles as “Metamorphoses” and "The Arabian Nights," is to adapt Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic swashbuckler �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMMary Zimmerman, the widely acclaimed Chicago theater artist behind such titles as “Metamorphoses” and "The Arabian Nights," is to adapt Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic swashbuckler �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMCourt Theatre announced its 2015-16 season on Monday, featuring works by August Wilson, the Greek tragedian Aeschylus, Terry Teachout, Eugene O’Neill and Richard Bean.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:12PMSunday, March 8, 2015
Music, especially angsty British new wave from such artists as Altered Images, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and New Order, was an indispensable part of the cinematic oeuvre of John Hughes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00PMAside from giving the redoubtable Helen Mirren another chance to essay Queen Elizabeth II — a necessarily reclusive character with whom this actress is now so closely allied that the two v…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:41PMAside from giving the redoubtable Helen Mirren another chance to essay Queen Elizabeth II — a necessarily reclusive character with whom this actress is now so closely allied that the two v…
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In August 2005, August Wilson picked up the phone and called two reporters to tell them he was dying.
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NEW YORK — Larry David's first foray into Broadway comedy is like watching a weird — but undeniably entertaining and, God help us all, even potentially transformative — fusion of "Curb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PM"We have an agenda," said the comedian Robin Ince the other day, between bites of a chicken sandwich. These days, who doesn't? Of course, the most effective polemical tool might not be calli…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:37PMThe elephants are to be phased out of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the Associated Press first reported Thursday morning. The lumbering pachyderms will be gone from the sh…
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We all know "The Diary of Anne Frank" does not end happily. If you are watching a truthful, deeply engaged production, and director Kimberly Senior's work for Writers Theatre is most certain…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMWe all know "The Diary of Anne Frank" does not end happily. If you are watching a truthful, deeply engaged production, and director Kimberly Senior's work for Writers Theatre is most certain…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMA new play by Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "August: Osage County"; the regional premiere of Annie Baker's "The Flick"; a new Frank Galati adaptation of John Steinbeck's …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMA new play by Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "August: Osage County"; the regional premiere of Annie Baker's "The Flick"; a new Frank Galati adaptation of John Steinbeck's …
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A three-act, three-hour play set in Antarctica? At this point in this particular Chicago winter, it is hard to imagine an onstage prospect with less commercial potential. Even this critic �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMA three-act, three-hour play set in Antarctica? At this point in this particular Chicago winter, it is hard to imagine an onstage prospect with less commercial potential. Even this critic �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Steven Dietz's play "Yankee Tavern" is a cleverly self-protected piece of writing, a deconstruction of 9/11 conspiracy theories that also airs a good number of them, ranging from the spike i…
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The National Theatre of Scotland — unusual in that it is a national theater without any physical theater of its own — has been in existence for only nine years. It has already been to si…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:18PMThe National Theatre of Scotland — unusual in that it is a national theater without any physical theater of its own — has been in existence for only nine years. It has already been to si…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:18PMIs graffiti a legitimate artistic expression accessible to the otherwise excluded, or criminal vandalism that is the scourge of a great city?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:12PMIs graffiti a legitimate artistic expression accessible to the otherwise excluded, or criminal vandalism that is the scourge of a great city?
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A few days ago, it was announced that former Chicago improviser Tina Fey's new TV show, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," would not air on NBC like her colossal hit "30 Rock," but would be availa…
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With the opening of John Henry Roberts' "The Sweeter Option," Strawdog Theatre Company has produced 100 shows over 27 years, mostly in its second-floor walk-up near the corner of Broadway an…
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Someone hitting it out of the park — theatrically speaking — is always a joy to watch. But I've long been an admirer of the all-important (and much rarer) successful follow-up. What's be…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:44PMImagine a cross between Neil Patrick Harris and Seth Meyers — combined with the spawn of Barry Manilow — and you have a sense of David Larsen, the shrewdly guileless new Elder Price atop…
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Must you feel anything when watching a play by the iconic French absurdist Samuel Beckett? That question, precipitated by feeling next to nothing Tuesday night while watching The Hypocrites'…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMMust you feel anything when watching a play by the iconic absurdist Samuel Beckett? That question, precipitated by feeling next to nothing Tuesday night while watching The Hypocrites' produc…
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In 1910, Jack Johnson, a boxer who had long dominated the World Colored Heavyweight Championship, finally coaxed the formerly undefeated James J. Jeffries out of retirement. The former world…
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If you are familiar with Lisa Genova's "Still Alice" — a play and now a movie starring the Oscar-nominated Julianne Moore, as well as a book — then you'll have encountered a woman who ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:29PMBefore dawn on a frigid Thursday morning, as President Barack Obama came to Chicago to declare the site of the Pullman Palace Car Co. a national monument, I caught the train they call the Ci…
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