THEATER 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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:42PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Cabaret" by the Roundabout Theatre BROADWAY REVIEW: Cabaret by the Roundabout Theatre ... Figuring little good was to come from keeping a proven production alone on the sh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:32PMThe Goodman Theatre has announced the final show in its 2014-15 mainstage season: it is to be a new production of the classic Amerian potboiler "The Little Foxes," written by Lillian Hellman…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:36PMChicago Children's Theatre said Wednesday that it will premiere a new musical based on Leo Lionni's book "Frederick," the story of a poetically inclined fieldmouse with a penchant for storyt…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:22PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" BROADWAY REVIEW: "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" ... Born of the rubble of the Berlin Wall, Hedwig Schmidt surely would never have imagined her tir…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMBoHo Theatre, still a relative newcomer to Chicago's non-Equity theater scene, scored the most nominations for the 2014 Non-Equity Jeff Awards, announced by the all-volunteer committee on Mo…
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SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:03PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Violet" at the American Airlines Theatre ... You can't help worrying about "Violet." Not just the smart girl with the scar who is at the heart of the tender and haunting li…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:26PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "The Cripple of Inishmaan" at the Cort Theatre BROADWAY REVIEW: "The Cripple of Inishmaan" at the Cort Theatre ... Daniel Radcliffe's global celebrity wholly disappears ins…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:17PMFor some in Chicago, the anointing of Stephen Colbert as the successor to David Letterman this month was a watershed, greatly-to-be-savored moment of total establishment dominance by the Chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:32PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Act One" in the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center BROADWAY REVIEW: "Act One" in the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center ... "Inevitably," wrote Moss Hart in …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:39PMWhen Ray Shepardson called, and he called those in a position to influence the fate of old theaters frequently, he would announce himself with a tagline: "It's Ray Shepardson, formerly of al…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:48PMBROADWAY REVIEW: 'Of Mice and Men' at the Longacre Theatre ... Many in the audience for "Of Mice and Men" are coming to see James Franco. But given director Anna D. Shapiro's long history wi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:37PMChuckling merrily at Natalie West's sardonic turn as a washed-up flight attendant in Marisa Wegrzyn's hilarious "Mud Blue Sky" at A Red Orchid Theatre on Monday night, I found myself wonderi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:35PMChicago's American Theater Company said Wednesday that it has inked a new partnership designed to create an enhanced Chicago-to-New York pipeline of new American works with commercial poten…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:21PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Cicada" by the Route 66 Theatre Company ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Cicada" by the Route 66 Theatre Company ★★½ ... We know cicadas in Chicagoland, where…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:35PM"Soul Train" is on track for Broadway, it was announced Wednesday.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:59PMTHEATER REVIEW: 'Dorian' by House Theatre of Chicago ★★ THEATER REVIEW: 'Dorian' by House Theatre of Chicago ★★ ... Tommy Rapley's "Dorian," a striking, laudably amb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMThe Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris is to join the ensemble of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:44AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Mud Blue Sky" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Mud Blue Sky" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★½ ... Marisa Wegrzyn's modestly s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:50PMAnnie Baker's "The Flick," a play about ushers in a movie theatre has won the Pulitzer Prize in drama, announced Monday in New York.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:06PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Way West" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★ THEATER REVIEW: "The Way West" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★ ... In the best scene of Mona Monsour's otherwise r…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:27PMBROADWAY REVIEW: "Bullets Over Broadway" at the St. James Theatre NEW YORK — In the hands — and most certainly the wheelhouse — of the director-choreographer Susan Stroman…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:43PMCritics have their obsessions, especially in Chicago. Claudia Cassidy had Tennessee Williams. Gene Siskel had "Saturday Night Fever." Richard Christiansen had Mickey Rooney.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:17PMChicago's weirdly named Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has been a reliable place to see a stylish show since its founding 17 years ago. An Anglophile Equity company with a formidably experience…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Dance of Death" by Writers Theatre at Books on Vernon ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "The Dance of Death" by Writers Theatre at Books on Vernon ★★&…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08AMTHEATER REVIEW: "Les Miserables" at the Drury Lane Theatre ★★★ THEATER REVIEW: "Les Miserables" at the Drury Lane Theatre ★★★ ... Once inseparable from i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:13PMTHEATER REVIEW: "The Great God Pan" at Next Theatre ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "The Great God Pan" at Next Theatre ★★½ ... In the Amy Herzog play that opened Monday night…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:29PMTHEATER REVIEW: "God's Work" by Albany Park Theatre Project at the Goodman Theatre THEATER REVIEW: "God's Work" by Albany Park Theatre Project at the Goodman Theatre ... The Albany Park The…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PM"This Is Our Youth," the 1996 play by Kenneth Lonergan about affluent but disaffected college-age Manhattanites, will get a new, Chicago-to-Broadway production this summer at Steppenwolf The…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:59PMTHEATER REVIEW: "Our Class" by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at the Greenhouse Theater ★★★★ THEATER REVIEW: "Our Class" by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at the Greenhous…
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