Monday, September 28, 2020
For Jackie Taylor, the founder of the Black Ensemble Theater and a woman who has seen calls for diversity come and go over the years, this moment seems different.
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The Goodman Theatre said Friday that the planned performances at Indian Boundary Park (Friday) and Portage Park (Saturday) this weekend of “Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!," a touring outdo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:07PMThe artistic leader of Chicago's Teatro Vista company is stepping down and says he hopes to return to acting.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:02PMThe streamed British production of "Romantics Anonymous," directed by Emma Rice, is presented for Chicagoans by Chicago Shakespeare Theater. It is what people used to call a whimsical musica…
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The Equity musical house just across the state line in Munster, Ind., is in trouble, with no shows planned on its calendar.
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The circus being the circus, these performers always find a way to go on with the show. Chicago's Midnight Circus tours city parks this fall.
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“Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!" by the Goodman Theatre is Cheryl L. West’s play about the civil rights activist, starring E. Faye Butler in a tour of Chicago parks.
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Already Chicago theaters are planning virtual holiday productions in place of their usual cash cows like "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
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The Big Ten is back in business this week, even as theaters remain shut and schooling remains on your screen. That exposes a whole lot of double-thinking.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:21PMIn a pandemic-era first, “Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!” brings a story about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer out to the neighborhoods. Live, with music.
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Chicago theater’s Jeff Awards on Tuesday announced the nominees for the 52nd annual awards for Equity theaters.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:36AMAs Samuel Beckett said, we must go on, and as Tony Kushner said, the world spins forward. These two playwrights weren't talking about the current moment, but they might have been. In this mo…
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Its 43rd season will be composed of online presentations, the virtual presentations of new work by five choreographers.
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Friday, September 11, 2020
“Incidental Moments of the Day: The Apple Family: Life on Zoom" is free to watch, starring Steppenwolf's Sally Murphy in a quiet story worth watching.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:26PMThe core asset of Ayad Akhtar's "Homeland Elegies," his latest deeply moving autobiographical novel, is the complexity of its thinking, its innate understanding that seeing the absurdity of …
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The longtime chief theater critic of the New York Times announced Thursday that he is stepping down.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:27AMWhen the pandemic forced all of live Chicago theater onto a screen, the Neos got it done. Next up for the small but thriving North Side company is ”45 Plays for America’s First Ladies.�…
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Chicago's grand old hotel has roots in the Chicago arts that run deep. Now it's in financial trouble. Lose the Palmer and we lose part of Chicago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:10PMMy picks for the best bets for Chicago theater are a blend of virtual and live, outdoor experiences.
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The stage program at the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced two virtual programs for the fall, one of which involves an audience doing their own at-home performance.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMChicago's Steppenwolf announces a season of virtual theater, with “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" still on the slate for a live staging in early 2021.
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His play, "Deep Azure," involved an African-American police officer who panicked and shot a student. It was staged by Congo Square in 2005, with Boseman at the opening.
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The 40-year-old company formerly known as Light Opera Works is known for classic musicals with full orchestras, and hopes to produce "Mamma Mia!" at the North Shore Center next summer.
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Some early favorites for this year's Tony Awards include "Moulin Rouge" and "Slave Play." But importantly, the virtual ceremony must be about more than competition.
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When will a Chicago theater put on that particular show in 2021? It hasn't said because it doesn't know. But this obstacle can actually be a big step forward.
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The Chicago theater company will create an online comedy series titled “Hit ‘Em on the Blackside.” Plus Steppenwolf announces radio play cast.
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No opening dates, but show titles, including “As You Like It" with Beatles music. And audiences will be allowed on Navy Pier.
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In Chicago, where summer is short, time is running out for the kinds of outdoor performances that have worked well in London and cities elsewhere.
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His “George Gershwin Alone" played an extended run at the Royal George in 2005-06, and the live concert will benefit a number of theaters.
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