Sunday, March 13, 2022
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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Tuesday, March 8, 2022
What if life on other planets does not resemble little green aliens so much as our consciousness?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:20PMThe story of Henrik Ibsen's play involves a married woman, Ellida (Chaon Cross), who grew up near the sea but now lives in a dull place with her boring husband.
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I’d say that “Hadestown,” for all of its emphasis on delivering a New Orleans-style good time to its audience, is not so much thrilling now as chilling.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:20PMRajiv Joseph’s “King James” at Steppenwolf revolves around the legendary basketball player and Leon is certain the show is destined for New York.
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By the time Gaines exits, likely at the end of 2022, almost all of the major Chicago-area theaters will have new artistic leadership.
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ZinZanni’s “Wishes and Dreams” will be an important attraction as visitors return to Chicago. What I admire the most, I think, is how big a show the relatively small cast always delive…
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Larry Neumann Jr., a gruff, gritty Chicago actor widely regarded as quintessential, died Feb. 23 at the age of 62.
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It’s hard to overestimate how powerfully a musical set in Gander, Canada, connected with a Chicago audience Wednesday night.
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When I first reviewed Mary Zimmerman’s “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci” — gulp, some 19 years ago — it felt like witnessing a Chicago theater revolution.
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While the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire's production of "West Side Story" is not heavy on concept or the unexpected, some may still live, feel and believe it.
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The work homes in on the homosexuality of silent film stars Ramon Novarro and William Haines and argues that once Hollywood adopted the Hays Production Code in 1930, their careers were esse…
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An unstinting performer dedicated to truth on stage, Thebus had many performances; she continued to work in the Chicago theater well into her 80s.
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Fans of Felicia P. Fields can well imagine the fun the Chicago star has with lyrics like “You always ready every time that I call / What I like about you, you never stall."
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
Deb Clapp, the executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres for the past 14 years, is leaving her position, effective at the end of June.
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The Paramount has excellent timing. Just as that woodchuck known as Punxsutawney Phil was emerging in Pennsylvania, the theater was readying the first local production of the Broadway musica…
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Friday, February 4, 2022
Productions like the Drury Lane’s full-throttle “Evita" still feel to me like a small miracle in these lingering days of COVID-19.
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The main characters in Donja R. Love’s play “Fireflies” are called Charles and Olivia. They’re thinly veiled versions of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, …
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Smart, challenging and deeply moving toward its close, “Relentless” is fully the equal of many of the serious dramas that populated Broadway this past fall.
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The show is genuinely beautiful to experience throughout, which one almost never can say about jukebox musicals.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMChicago’s Lyric Opera has announced its 2022-23 season, an extensive calendar with world premieres and classics.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMAugust Wilson was America’s William Shakespeare — surely we all can see this by now — and his play “Gem of the Ocean,” now in rich revival at the Goodman Theatre, was his version o…
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If any journalist could be said to have lit the spark for an artistic movement, that scribe was Richard Christiansen, longtime chief critic at the Chicago Tribune.
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A musical parody of "The Bachelor" brings some fun to the Apollo Theater in Chicago, with a local cast and clever songs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:55PMHas one of the great theater cities on the planet just suffered the kind of blow that may require a recovery time of years?
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Along with "Mary Rose" by Black Button Eyes Productions, choose between two interesting, gothic shows now playing in Chicago.
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Daniel Fish discusses the "Oklahoma!" musical now on tour: "I see everything I do as a new work. You are doing the show on a contemporary night."
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Director Daniel Fish’s radical 2018 Broadway revival arrives in our town at a tough moment for traumatic endings. Fair warning.
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