Wednesday, November 12, 2014
As a serial theatrical and banquet entrepreneur of the old school, Anthony Tomaska has had his hits — such as the hugely profitable Chicago production of "Tony n' Tina's Wedding," which ra…
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Next Theatre of Evanston has closed its doors and cancelled the rest of its 2014-15 season, artistic director Jenny Avery said in a letter sent this weekend to the actors and other theater a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:57AMNext Theatre of Evanston has closed its doors and cancelled the rest of its 2014-15 season, artistic director Jenny Avery said in a letter sent this weekend to the actors and other theater a…
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Given its inexorable associations with the glamorous Kennedy White House and such formidable but distant personas as Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's e…
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMOn Tuesday, the Washington Post printed an impassioned letter from pianist Dejan Lazic, which began like this: "Dear Madam/Sir, It is hard to believe that almost four years after this articl…
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Richard "Dick" Schaal, a pioneer at the Second City comedy theater in Chicago, the former husband of the actress Valerie Harper and a familiar face from a plethora of character roles on movi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:53PMNEW YORK - In the fall of 2012, the world's most lucrative redheaded, pooch-loving orphan appeared again on Broadway, directed by James Lapine. Although it was never the box-office hit its p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:21PMThe Broadway-bound show "First Wives Club The Musical" has announced who will play its leading trio of spurned spouses: Faith Prince, Christine Sherrill and Carmen Cusack.
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A cold wire in Chicago. A black sky. A little man — so fragile, as we all are — in orange with no visible contingency plan for his uphill jaunt over a frigid river, beyond an enviable ce…
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We're all vulnerable in love and marriage — even arty, self-aware British intellectuals who pride themselves on their carefully constructed and seemingly unimpeachable castles of wit, iron…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:17PMA fresh and welcome wind is blowing up the Malay Peninsula — well, across the Marriott Lincolnshire golf course, at least — with the famed suburban theater's very fine new production of …
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Dee Snider, the longtime frontman of Twisted Sister, really likes his family Christmas. Over lunch the other day with Snider and Suzette Guilot-Snider, his charming wife of more than 30 year…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:37PMThe Broadway actor Steven Pasquale, recently a star of "Bridges of Madison County," is to play the role of the carnival barker Billy Bigelow in Rob Ashford's upcoming Lyric Opera of Chicago …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:33PMThe music of the man in black is headed to the Southport Corridor this summer as the Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Southport Ave., plays host to a transfer of last spring's Theatre at the Center …
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In the beginning of Abbie Spallen's dense 2009 drama "Strandline," now in its U.S. premiere at A Red Orchid Theatre, we learn of a man apparently drowned, off the coast of Northern Ireland.
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No Broadway musical of the last two decades is more ill-served by a massive production than Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's “Titanic.” That might seem counterintuitive. The RMS Titanic wa…
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NEW YORK — As captain of “The Last Ship,” and the one who set this mostly autobiographical and wholly original Broadway musical on its daring course, the great songwriter Sting can tak…
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"Health officials struggle to control the media narrative about Ebola," read a headline in the Washington, D.C., publication The Hill a few days ago. The words were atop an article arguing t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:47PMNEW YORK — Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" — a deftly crafted, theatrically compelling dissection of the intersection of sex, ethnicity and ambition — makes an intense and mostly effective l…
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About halfway through Second City's very moving and revealing collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago last week — you missed it, but I suspect it will be back — I found myself th…
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It is dangerous for a critic to close his or her eyes at the theater; it usually is construed as sleepiness or disrespect. But at one point on Saturday night, I briefly rested my eyelids at …
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Should the mice in "Frederick," the rather sweet new musical at the Chicago Children's Theatre, ever decide to turn tail and move to Chicago, they will be ahead of the civic game.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:26PMOne way to understand the main problem facing "Amazing Grace," the very sincere new musical with Broadway aspirations, is to imagine a version of the Academy Award-winning movie "12 Years a …
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"Animal Farm" from Steppenwolf Theatre Company ★★★★
"Animal Farm" from Steppenwolf Theatre Company ★★★★
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Aside from being a hugely entertaining and strikingly emotional show, "The Art of Falling," Second City's not-to-be-missed new collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, is a very sign…
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Al Pacino is to return to Broadway in a new play by David Mamet next fall, the New York producer Jeffrey Richards announced Thursday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:43PMBilly Corgan, frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins, is writing a 20-minute musical for The Music Theatre Company of Highland Park, the group is to officially announce Thursday afternoon. The to…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:46AM"Are you going to Ionesco?" said the French woman in the Navy Pier elevator Wednesday night, a sharp question that set me off thinking about whether Ionesco could ever really be said to be a…
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As I work in Tribune Tower on North Michigan Avenue, I have plenty of chances to pass through Pioneer Court, the privately owned public space directly south of Tribune Tower and north of the…
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In the first moments of "Luce" at the Next Theatre on Sunday afternoon, I had a distinct sense of deja vu. There was actress Amy J. Carle, playing a defensive parent and confronting her son'…
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