Thursday, June 9, 2022
"Grandmas Jukebox" is a legit, original jukebox musical replete with dialogue scenes, fully-fledged characters and a dramatic through-line.
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“American Idol” vocalists Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young are the stars. Nostalgia is a powerful force in the theater but it relies on more truth than this musical currently delivers.
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“The Magnolia Ballet” bills itself as a ghost story, and it’s certainly an immersive, gothic tale of the Old South, a place where, for a young gay Black man, the walls are howling and …
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We often go to the theater to feel we’re not alone in our fears. Here’s that opportunity with unexpected revelations to boot.
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Over the years, its most memorable and acclaimed productions included “The Sparrow,” “Death and Harry Houdini" and the show through which it shot to fame, “The Terrible Tragedy of Pe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:45AMMolly Hernández is a newcomer to the role of Alice and a delightful addition, given her charming personality and warm, guileless demeanor.
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The Motown group known as The Temptations navigated a truly stunning repertoire of musical styles over a 62-year history.
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Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has hired internally for its top two management positions, the longstanding North Shore venue has announced.
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Having just won a Tony Award, Court Theatre delivers with a blisteringly entertaining new Ron OJ Parson production.
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Early in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, young Scout Finch starts telling us about the courtroom in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. She does so with the reverence of a chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:10PMIt’s worth noting that Chicago has four new musicals trying out this summer, all shooting toward Broadway.
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Monday, May 16, 2022
Lloyd Suh’s play “The Chinese Lady,” now in its Chicago premiere, has a spectacular central performance from Mi Kang.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMNPR's weekly hour-long quiz program will resume live audience recordings this June, hosted by Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal.
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In Gracie Gardner’s two-character play, Athena is a 17-year-old who likes having a warrior moniker. Gardner has written a character study of two smart, self-reflective teenagers with the …
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The new Second City Artistic Advisory Board, announced Tuesday, also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Lynch and Tim Meadows. The theater currently has no artistic director.
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Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play is famous exploration of the pain and black comedy within a damaged, theatrical family, freshly adapted and directed at Steppenwolf by Yasen Peyankov,
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“Rock of Ages” is what you might call a party show, giving the audience a fun jukebox musical full of Bon Jovi and Journey.
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Christophe declared himself king of that Caribbean nation in 1811, and then set about building a kind of shadow version of a European monarchy.
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This story about a young Black seamstress struggling to make her way in 1905 New York is as gentle as it is persistent, and remains my favorite of Lynn Nottage's plays.
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I first saw “Spring Awakening,” the Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater musical about adults confining their children to sexual ignorance, more than 15 years ago.
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Love often begins at funerals, since those events put everything in context of mortality. We’re only her for a while, Helen realizes, so you might as well go after the lover who only looks…
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Daniel Craig brings plenty of talent and star power to "Macbeth" on Broadway, but the production loses its way.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMHe figured out long ago that he knows how to talk about love, a topic that many male comedians avoid.
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Billy Crystal has aged into his role as Buddy Young Jr. perfectly for the Broadway version of "Mr. Saturday Night."
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A deeply intimate story about a young man named Usher writing a Broadway musical, this is probably the most sexually explicit musical ever produced.
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If the audience at the August Wilson Theatre could have carried Feldstein on its shoulders, it surely would have done so.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMWatch the von Trapp kids closely and you’ll see a lot of shared glances and frowns as the comings and goings of the adults cause whipsaw changes in the lives of these kids.
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It’s all a good, PG-13 laugh, a chance to shed one’s inhibitions while remaining in a somewhat dignified and safe environment.
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Not since the emerald hues of “Wicked” has a show looked more glorious in Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre than “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.”
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