Thursday, April 21, 2022
Not since the emerald hues of “Wicked” has a show looked more glorious in Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre than “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00PMThe play offers up dextrous plotting, sardonic satire, subtle observations about the gray northern life and, above all, an unforgettable central character in Harry, a hangman who also loses …
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For those of us of a certain age, it’s hard to imagine Ntozake Shange first wrote the lines “Somebody, anybody, sing a black girl’s song” nearly half a century ago, and made it to Br…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PM“The Prom,” if you’ve never had the pleasure, deals with a cast of narcissistic Broadway types who try to "rescue" a gay high schooler in Indiana.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:22PMWhen Paula Vogel’s play opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to non-existent.
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The project will contain a museum, two performing spaces and is earmarked as a performance home for the Congo Square Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:05PMNew work dominates, although the season concludes with a new production of Harold Pinter’s absurdist classic “No Man’s Land."
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She was, for decades, a reigning diva of the Chicago theater, a rich-voiced star of musicals with a singular presence.
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Thursday, April 14, 2022
"American Buffalo" is highly entertaining. But it could range deeper into the playwright's soul.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMYou wish that the younger performers had taken a cue from older cast members, dialed back all the shouting and explored how the deepest wounds we inflict are emotional ones, not verbal wins.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMPresto! Mayne Stage, the historic East Rogers Park entertainment venue, will have a new name and new dedication to presenting magic.
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Betrayed? Beheaded? So what. The queens now have their court. "Six" is a celebration of, as they say, “her-story,” and you can clap and party along.
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We first meet Ernestine when she is 17 years old, learning one of her family’s most abiding rituals: the baking of a favorite birthday cake
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PMRodgers and Hammerstein's musical might seem to be about the relationship between the authoritarian King of Siam and his feisty hired schoolteacher, but it’s also about change, acceptance …
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Jaws clenched, limbs firing and hearts on the line: that’s what the admirable cast of the gutsy “Paradise Square” is delivering at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.
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After 35 years at the Goodman Theatre, artistic director Robert Falls this week announced his final season as artistic director.
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“Winnie the Pooh” is, really, a metaphor for the importance of friendship between diverse and different creatures.
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“Love with a laugh only goes so far.” Those eight words, which I heard sung Thursday night from the stage of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, have interfered with my sleep.
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"I was just drawn to the fear, and the utter challenge, of playing someone who was so opposite from me," Hayes said on playing Levant.
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Oscar Levant, who died in 1972, was a movie actor and songwriter. What a star they have found in Sean Hayes, best known for “Will & Grace.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:32AMBefore she achieved international fame as Mrs. Patmore in the television series “Downton Abbey,” Lesley Nicol was a widely admired British stage actress.
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The Broadway musical with the music and moves of Michael Jackson will open its first national tour in the Loop.
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“Welcome back to the theater” is a common curtain announcement these days. You can hear it at the biting comedy “White” from Definition Theatre and you can live it at “Stand Up If …
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Before she found fame as the beloved cook Mrs. Patmore on “Downton Abbey,” the British actress was a longtime stage performer.
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The longstanding off-Loop company founded in 1985 finally has found itself a permanent new home on Chicago’s North Side.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMWords like eye-popping extravaganza surely are overused on Broadway but “Moulin Rouge” lived up to that billing.
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A riff on "Death of a Salesman,” this play wonders what would happen if Linda Loman met the woman with whom her husband had an affair.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMAfter an association of some 40 years, Terry James, the executive producer of the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, has announced his retirement this summer.
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“King James” tells a moving story of two friends in Cleveland who bond and come unstuck over the rise, exit and return of LeBron James.
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The opening night of Lyric Opera's “Tosca,” the Giacomo Puccini opera set as the Neapolitans abandoned Rome, began with the Ukrainian national anthem.
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