Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Chicago will have the world premiere of a new Broadway-bound musical based on the life and music of the superstar singer Gloria Estefan and her entrepreneurial producer husband, Emilio Este…
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THEATER REVIEW: "M. Butterfly" at Court Theatre ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "M. Butterfly" at Court Theatre ★½ ... Now a quarter of a century old, the Tony Award-winning play "M. Butte…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Exit Strategy" at the Broadway Armory ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Exit Strategy" at the Broadway Armory ★★★★ ... At once poetic, p…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Man in a Case" at MCA Chicago ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Man in a Case" at MCA Chicago ★★★ ... To say that you should go and see one of the gr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:51PMThe artist had won a prestigious award with a big cash prize. "I am truly humbled," he wrote the other day on Facebook. Well, actually, no he wasn't. No way.
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A Red Orchid Theatre, a longtime fixture of Chicago's Off Loop community, announced Thursday that it has established a new partnership with the New York-based Bisno Productions, aimed at tra…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:40PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The White Snake" at the Goodman Theatre ★★½
They may be characters in an ancient Chinese fable — with written roots slithering as far back as the Ming Dy…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMBroadway actor Ben Vereen showed up unannounced at American Theater Company's revisionist production of "Hair" and told the cast they had rescued the show. Mikhail Baryshnikov hit town, doin…
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The Chicago Commercial Collective's production of Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall" is to close May 25, it was announced late on Wednesday.
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THEATER REVIEW: "Jack Lemmon Returns" at the Royal George Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Jack Lemmon Returns" at the Royal George Theatre ★★½ ... At one point in thi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:47PMThis weekend, one of the most famous international names in dance, Mikhail Baryshnikov, returns to Chicago as the star of "Man in a Case," a performance piece built by Paul Lazar and Annie-B…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Lost in Yonkers" at Northlight Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Lost in Yonkers" at Northlight Theatre ★★★★ ... I hadn't seen t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:13PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Hit the Wall" ★★★★ and "5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche" ★★★ by Chicago Commercial Collective
THEATER REVIEW: "Hit the Wall" ★ …
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There are, I think, two very distinct kinds of fame. One is a mostly desirable state of being: It gets you good tables at restaurants, a feeling of accomplishment, a pass through the lines o…
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"We're always talking about teaching,” says one of the Chicago Public Schools teachers in Joe Zarrow's new play, “Principal Principle.” “We don't need some rubric ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:35PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Motown the Musical" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Motown the Musical" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½ ... In one of the most revealing …
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The Hypocrites, the longtime Off-Loop theater company that has seen strong growth in its national identity, is to take up permanent residence as the anchor tenent of a new 200-seat theater i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:02PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Henry V" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Henry V" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★ ... The British director Christ…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Hair" at American Theater Company ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Hair" at American Theater Company ★★★½ ... "Hair," the once-revolutionary Amer…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Principal Principle" by Stage Left at Theater Wit ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Principal Principle" by Stage Left at Theater Wit ★★★½ ... Som…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Juno" at TimeLine Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Juno" at TimeLine Theatre ★★½ Sean O'Casey's dark, restless drama begins with the brutal shooting o…
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THEATER REVIEW: "The Wizard of Oz" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Wizard of Oz" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★ ... Danielle …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:46PMComplaining about awards — even those as lofty and financially crucial and historically significant as the Tony Awards — generally is a pointless exercise.
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After lunch earlier this cloudy, rainy week, Chris Lemmon donned a pair of shades in the elevator.
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THEATER REVIEW: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" by Po…
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THEATER REVIEW: "Avenue Q" at the Mercury Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Avenue Q" at the Mercury Theater ★★★ ... When I first saw "Avenue Q" in New York o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:03PMIn a wildly unpreditcable year for the Tony Awards, especially in the crucial catagory of new musicals, "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," "Beautiful," "After Midnight," and "Aladdin,…
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THEATER REVIEW: "The Sound of Music" by the Lyric Opera
In its second of four planned spring productions of classic musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the Lyric Opera of …
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THEATER REVIEW: "In the Garden" at the Lookingglass Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "In the Garden" at the Lookingglass Theatre ★★½ ... Early on in Sara Gmitter's "In …
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When American Airlines was looking for a spokesman for its new Airbus A321 service from New York to Los Angeles, a route greatly favored by captains of industry, Neil Patrick Harris was an o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:43PMTHEATER REVIEW: "A View From the Bridge" by Teatro Vista ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "A View From the Bridge" by Teatro Vista ★★★ ... Arthur Miller's "A View Fro…
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