This is a contemporary folk tale inspired by the music and sounds of Scotland, earlier seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMPlaying a single woman visited by the ghost of Elvis, Brenda Barrie apparently has decided she is doing Eugene O’Neill and proceeds accordingly. She’s very funny, too.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMFew titles command the affection of “The Wiz,” and the show’s most fabulous songs, including “Ease On Down the Road,” have been sung now for close to 50 years.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:04PMThe impressive new two-theater complex will stage the upcoming “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!,” slated to open on Dec. 10.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:32PMAny fan of Jim Henson shouldn’t miss this truly splendid addition to the seasonal attractions on offer in Chicago’s Loop.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:15PMGranted, Roald Dahl’s dark and complex stories from the 1960s are not easy to adapt into family musicals.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:54PMWhat you are seeing here is the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein “Cinderella,” retooled a bit for modern sensibilities.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:21PMEveryone involved in the production reveres the title's old-school Jim Henson legacy.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMYes, there's a digital set in this revival of Eric Idle's hilarious musical and much of the audience doesn't know the material. But 'tis but a scratch.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PMThere’s no better time to get out and support Chicago theater than the festive season, when warm holiday performances abound.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMJohn Hoogenakker is a fine Henry II, all cynical and weary. I’d forgotten how much talk there is in this script about aching bones and death.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMHere was a band that could have represented Germany at its best, a combination of Jews and Gentiles singing in perfect harmony.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:18PMThis show bills itself partly as a 90-minute theater piece, partly as a concert and partly as a party.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMNo. 1 reason here is Kaitlyn Davis, a vulnerable, unpretentious actress who knows just how to play Carole King.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMIn one corner, you have D’Agata, author of a piece about a suicidal kid jumping off the top of a Las Vegas hotel. In the other corner, you have Jim, who gets the job of fact-checking it.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMMy objections? Oh, an incoherent and crass book and tasteless jokes about “Creepy Old Guys” and so on. But Isabella Esler is a huge young talent as Lydia.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMThis show about killers and wanna-be killers of presidents is profoundly cynical, often an effective point of view for a musical, but somehow always troubling here.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:05PMOpening soon, the latest in a string of pre-Broadway musicals that director Jerry Mitchell has first brought to life in Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMSelina Fillinger’s comedy has become the most-produced play at American regional theaters this season. It’s not hard to see why.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMThis is a goofy and warm-centered show that put me in mind of all the different trends I’ve seen at Second City.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25AMThere's a contagious happiness, warmth and openness in this Shakespeare play. I guarantee you will not be bored.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:15PMPlaywright Theresa Rebeck’s new three-character play is about old age and the joy and tyranny of stuff.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMStephen Sondheim believed in the power of love, and in the someone who makes us "aware of being alive." This director has other ideas.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMDennis Watkins, Chicago’s premiere resident magician, has plied his trade for some 15 years in the Loop and now has the fancy new venue he deserves.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMThe quick Broadway transfer replaces a previous plan to first tour the show to more cities, but was not a surprise given the success of the Chicago run.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMThe host for your evening is the magician-comedian Lucy Darling, adept at crowd work and adding to that supper-club vibe.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMCompared to the Broadway overblown spectacle, the show sits far more easily at Chicago’s intimate Mercury as a fun, Halloween-season entertainment.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMAs this new musical confirms, Stephen Sondheim died happy, at the top of his lyrical and compositional game, and clearly in love.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMThe 25th anniversary of “O” was a reminder of many things, not the least of which the power of live actors and stage sets over video projections.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:15AM“Night Watch” is no great masterpiece, but the late Lucille Fletcher, who wrote for “The Twilight Zone," sure knew how to craft a mystery.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:33PMI hope Broadway gets to see the star James Monroe Iglehart in this role.
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