I hope Broadway gets to see the star James Monroe Iglehart in this role.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:35PMThis new show relies for its appeal mostly on the rapport of its two contrasting stars, and the edgy material took guts.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PM“We tell the Louis Armstrong story through each of his four wives,” star James Monroe Iglehart says. “He took a long time to understand himself.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:06PMKudos to the show for delivering the full-blown experience, but it struggles to build a narrative we care about.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:24PMThe year 1957, the setting of the final scene of “Merrily,” is all about possibility. But we already know friends have disappointed friends.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMSalons are usually havens for gossip, always good for a laugh. But as we see in "Jaja’s African Hair Braiding," they can also be safe spaces.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMThis is the '90s story of handsome serial killer Patrick Bateman, with a score by Duncan Sheik, staged right there in front of you.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:25PMMonday was an especially good night for the Goodman Theatre, winning for “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Who’s Tommy.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30AMPlaywright Sarah Ruhl doesn’t just look at the relationship between Eurydice and Orpheus but at that between Eurydice and her dead father.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:48PMIt wasn’t so much that this three-act script was a literary masterpiece as it was a blueprint for thrilling theatrical storytelling.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMWagner’s fantastical 1843 opera is about a sea captain fated to sail forever. Director Christopher Alden’s production doesn't offer him much hope.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMThis is a knockout show, as hilarious as it is cutting and as emotionally warmhearted as it is politically potent.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMPlaywright Pearl Cleage's comedy of manners pokes gentle fun at a society with Black debutants in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1960s.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PM“Boop! The Betty Boop Musical” is slated to play from Nov. 19 to Dec. 24 at Chicago’s CIBC Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AMMartyna Majok's play is staged in the round and for the first minutes, the characters of B and G circle each other in a rapid-fire series of sparing scenes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMThis promising new show taps into the true-crime story of Lawrencia “Bambi” Bembenek, a one-time Milwaukee cop and Playboy bunny, with music by Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMIn Jim Cartwright’s play, the struggling title character escapes from her chaotic life into a world of songbooks.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWriter Pearl Cleage's play is about characters trying to hold on to their idealism, and their relationships, even as conflict lurks around every corner.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMIn Brett Neveu’s quirky new comedy, a young retail worker's birthday is in need of saving.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:36PMUnder his leadership, the Hyde Park theater won the 2022 regional Tony Award.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMFirst-timers got special buttons when Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the Founding Fathers opened back in the Loop Thursday night. It's hard for me to put myself in their place.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:16AMFor my money, Noah Haidle’s play is precisely why people go to the theater.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:31PMHe told the Tribune that he was proud that the company had not hibernated during the pandemic, but created risky but successful projects including a drive-through production of “Twilight: …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMThis is not an operatic production, it is raw, simple and potent.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMThis is a huge production with a sing-it-to-the-hilt cast with huge voices.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PMThis jukebox musical about Johnny Cash feels like a collective concert.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMEnough with comparisons to that meaningless term, “normal.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMA pre-Broadway tryout of a musical version of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis movie “Death Becomes Her” is coming in 2024 to the Cadillac Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:50AMChicago theater-goers can also look forward to operas at Lyric, “POTUS” at Steppenwolf and a "Twelfth Night" transported to the Caribbean.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMYou worry hard here for Madame Rose, disappointed in life and love. And you sure as heck feel for June and Louise.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:24PMThe theater said Thursday that it was laying off 12% of its staff.
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