Wednesday, August 19, 2020
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.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:07PMThis is our chance to reset, everyone! In the wake of the mess left by the pandemic, theaters and other cultural organizations will be forced to follow the calendar year with their seasons. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
Chicago’s Goodman Theatre has announced plans for an eight-show season that the theater now hopes to complete within the first eight months of 2021.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:02PMChicago’s Sideshow Theatre Company changes leaders and founding artistic director Jonathan L. Green will remain with the company.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMSunday, August 16, 2020
The opening notes of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical sounded, the actors' masks fell away and an unspeakable moving show began at Regents Park Open Air Theatre in London, the fi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:13PMLori Dimun will be the new leader of Chicago's Harris Theater. She was formerly the theater's chief operating officer.
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What is theater? What is TV? What does it mean if a new Broadway musical first screens on Netflix before it's seen live by a Broadway audience?
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The original George Washington in Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" is doing an online concert from New York — that will be "presented by" and benefit Northlight Theatre as well as other non…
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Chicago's Congo Square has a new business manager. And Strawdog's artistic director is departing for Columbus.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMWednesday, July 29, 2020
The Loop vs. Chicago's "real" neighborhoods was always a false conflict, and gots us no where. With empty sidewalks, absent arts and struggling small businesses, this whole city needs help.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:56PMEver sit in a box seat during a theater production? Didn't think so. But several Chicago theaters have them and they could become the best seats in the house.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMMonday, July 27, 2020
For the very funny headliner Kellye Howard and other comics, COVID-19 was understandably the topic of the night.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:09PMIn angry letter, Greenhouse co-owner William Spatz cites the online condemnation by the Chicago theater community over reopening the theater to stage of "Judy & Liza."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMSunday, July 26, 2020
The fake fans for televised Major League Baseball games add nothing and, worse, are an intrusion. Better to enjoy a truthful pandemic-era game with empty seats.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:12PMThursday, July 23, 2020
Manager quits the North Side venue in protest of "Judy & Liza." No live theater until there's a COVID-19 vaccine, he says.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
About a century ago, the racist theories of eugenics could be found in Nazi Germany. They also received the occasional, misguided attentions of some of our greatest authors and playwrights. …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMThe Chicago company with an arts-crowd reputation for shadow puppet live movies is about get a dose of Hollywood fame. With "Retrospectacular" in August, you saw 'em when.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:54AMThursday, July 16, 2020
Artistic Chicago is hemorrhaging jobs -- from Blue Man Group to the Steppenwolf Theatre: ‘We are looking at the decimation of an industry.'
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Monday, July 13, 2020
Prominent artistic staffers -- including Young Audiences director -- are part of Steppenwolf layoffs
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Thursday, July 2, 2020
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Chicago's Mercury Theater and iO are closing. Blue Man Group is in trouble. It's the for-profit theaters that are in the most danger at the moment.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:56AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
This streaming "Hamilton," released July 3, is a filmed production of the full Broadway show in New York — captured by cameras in 2016 and much, much better than most videos of live shows.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMThursday, June 25, 2020
On July 3, the Disney Plus streaming service will release a filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton,” timed for the Independence Day holiday weekend. Here’s what you need to…
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Steppenwolf Theatre has rebooted its 2020-21 season, delaying its restart but still wanting to be a "beacon of hope."
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