After six years of a Cirque drought in the desert, the Cirque du Soleil is to bring a new attraction to the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas later this year. Instead of the acrobats and trapeze arti…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00AMForget Jussie Smollett. Kim Foxx, the State’s Attorney for Cook County, let Hamlet walk on Thursday night. In a murder trial held before the federal judge Joan Lefkow, the relentless Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:35PMFor an eleventh-hour replacement, Maurice Jones is a darn fine Hamlet. Jones, a Broadway actor, was only cast in the theater's most iconic role in March, following the withdrawal of Raul …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMThe Beetlejuice is rancid. And be sure not to bring the kids for a drink. "Beetlejuice" — officially "Beetlejuice the Musical, the Musical, the Musical" — is one of those what-were-they-…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:10PMIncredibly, the dangerously titled Michael Jackson musical, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” is moving forward in New York. Its creators are using what I’ll call the complexity de…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMA new 120-seat theater is coming to the Loop. On Wabash Avenue, right by the Halal Guys and a Taco Bell Cantina, just across the street from the Elephant & Castle pub, will sit The Lion …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMIn its first full season under artistic director Cody Estle, Raven Theatre scored the most nominations in the 2019 Non-Equity Jeff Awards, with the all-volunteer committee of Chicago theater…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AM“Can I touch you?” John Lithgow’s Bill asks Laurie Metcalf’s Hillary. If looks could kill, the audience for playwright Lucas Hnath’s “Hillary and Clinton” at Broadway’s Golde…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:30PMThe most fun you can ever have as a critic is watching a talented scribe take a great leap — in both thematic ambition and theatrical accomplishment. “Cambodian Rock Band,” already the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMDavid Korins is best known as a designer of Broadway shows, including, among others, “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Passing Strange,” “Beetlejuice” and, of course, “Hamilton.” But thro…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMJoanne B. Freeman is one of the world’s foremost experts on Alexander Hamilton. A professor of history and American studies at Yale University, Freeman is the historical advisor for “Ham…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMLin-Manuel Miranda — the creator of “Hamilton” — needs no introduction. He talked with the Tribune from New York about his mostly parental role in “Hamilton: The Exhibition.” Thi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMCan the famously smart and creative minds at Hamilton Inc. pull off their biggest gamble yet? With the acclaimed visual designer David Korins spinning the artistic roulette wheel, the brain …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMThe temporary exhibition opens April 27 on Northerly Island and will travel to other cities after the Chicago engagement, which is expected to last several months.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:56PMThe moody Dane, known to his friends as “Hamlet,” is back in town. In honor of Barbara Gaines’ new production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, which stars Maurice Jones, let’s take a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMWhen Lanford Wilson's "Burn/This" was first performed at Steppenwolf in Chicago at 1987, it famously starred John Malkovich and Joan Allen as, respectively, Pale and Anna: the coked-up, gang…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:00PMThe New York dancers who talked into a tape recorder for the rapacious director Michael Bennett at the Nickolaus Exercise Center on E. 23rd Street in 1974 are now, on average, more than 70 y…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:50PMDespite the title — or maybe because of the title — there’s a real warmth to “Grinning From Fear to Fear,” the new revue from Second City’s e.t.c. company and the director, Annel…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMEnter the Apollo Theater and there will be a djembe drum on your seat. I speak not of some souvenir percussive takeaway nor of a cheap facsimile of the skin-covered goblet drum. Nope. Every …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMBest puppet of the season? “King Kong” on Broadway. Height: 20 feet. Weight: 2,000 pounds. Style: Animatronic ape. Puppeteers: 14. Microprocessors: 16. Designer: Sonny Tilders. Cost: Goo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:15PMThis summer in New York, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner are expected to begin filming their upcoming adaptation of “West Side Story,” a remake of the movie that won a fleet of Oscars …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMPlaywright Ike Holter’s extraordinary Rightlynd saga — a multi-part dramatic odyssey that has taken a lucky few of us over a five-year stretch to the Jackalope Theatre, Victory Gardens, …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMBritain's Royal Shakespeare Company will make its first visit to Chicago in 25 years, Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced Tuesday. The RSC will be part of an expansive 2019-20 season on Na…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:45PMDo we all enjoy an exemption from moral, unselfish behavior when it comes to fighting for our own kids? It might seem we’ve decided otherwise — look at the righteous scorn heaped upon th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMAn "Oklahoma!" for an anxious, riven America unable engage in any kind of collective, cock-eyed optimism anymore, director Daniel Fish's Broadway revival at Circle in the Square Theatre is a…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:00PMAn "Oklahoma!" for an anxious, riven America unable to engage in any kind of collective, cock-eyed optimism anymore, director Daniel Fish's Broadway revival at Circle in the Square Theatre i…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMJoe Foust, a distinguished and versatile Chicago actor, is alone on the stage in “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,” an 80-minute monologue that begins with a detective from a s…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMNo crueler speech was ever uttered by a parent than the torrent of abuse that William Shakespeare's King Lear, that great beacon of self-awareness, unleashes on Goneril, the eldest of his th…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:00PMWeary of these moralistic times? Nostalgic for an emo-loving, streaming-free, pre-social-media-outrage era of acceptable decadence, amoral cinematic narratives and fanciful sensual depravity…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PMAfter more than 12 years as artistic director of the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, and an affiliation stretching back three decades, William Osetek said Wednesday that he had resig…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:40PMWhat’s your favorite scene in “Jersey Boys”? If you saw the show on Broadway or one of its earlier visits to Chicago, dollars to donuts it’s the moment when the horns come out for �…
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