Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri — a son of the outer boroughs of New York City, otherwise known as Chazz and now 66 years old — visited Chicago recently to talk about his life, times, and �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AMExit Michael Jackson. Enter Britney Spears. Moving rapidly, Broadway in Chicago has filled the spot vacated by the cancellation of the pre-Broadway tryout of “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get E…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:50AMComing this spring, hard on the heels of opening day at Wrigley Field: A new Chicago-born stage musical, officially encouraged and approved by the Chicago Cubs and produced by a former state…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMThe new high school musical “Be More Chill” needed to take it own advice: Chill out, kids. And fear not your own truth! If all of its overplayed, insecure, overwrought, dial-in-the-red-z…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:00PMWhat do working-class Irishmen in the final throes of middle age talk about in the pub? You know, with a good pal. The kind with whom you can let down your guard. If your answer to that ques…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:40PMIt’s 1992. A young white man named Steve meets a young African-American man named Eric on an empty D subway train in New York City. The white man is going home to his mother in Riverdale; …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:50PMInside a nondescript building not far from the Atlanta airport, David Korins, the set designer of “Hamilton,” the creative director of “Hamilton: The Exhibition” and a man just finis…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMMargaret Trudeau — the mother of one Prime Minister of Canada and the former wife of another — will perform over Mother’s Day weekend. But not in Canada. In Chicago. In the UP Comedy C…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMPicking an aptly frigid day for their official announcement, Disney Theatricals said Tuesday that the Broadway musical “Frozen” is coming to Chicago. The first national tour of the music…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMIn a development likely to reshape, and possibly reignite, the Halsted Street corridor in Lincoln Park and impact the fiscal and artistic fortunes of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company for year…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:04AMDespite its misleading, click-baity title, “I Wanna (expletive) Tear You Apart,” now at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, is actually a variously sweet and (mildly) bitter play about roomi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMNorthlight Theatre has announced its five-show, 2019-20 season — the Skokie-based theater company's 45th slate. Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" is the opening attraction. A play about…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMSteppenwolf Theatre’s 44th season will feature a new production of Tracy Letts’ 1996 drama “Bug,” helmed by the Broadway director David Cromer and starring the theater’s new ensemb…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMAfter 19 years in an old grocery store next to the Berwyn “L” stop on the Red Line on Chicago’s North Side, the 60-seat Steep Theatre Company is going Equity, effective early next seas…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:05PMIn her play “The Madres,” seen last year at Chicago’s Teatro Vista, the fine writer Stephanie Alison Walker wrote about the so-called Dirty War, the U.S.-backed Argentine purge that la…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMThe first act of God in Kareem Bandealy’s “Act(s) of God” is an explosion of unexpected flatulence, as the visiting deity, ensconced in a redundant computer room, makes his (or her) pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PM“‘Mamma Mia!’ You’re Showing Your Age,’” read the headline on one of my past, ever-wearying reviews of an ABBA-fueled show that is to jukebox cash-cows what eukaryotic single-cel…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:35PMDirector Stephen Daldry’s heart-stopping deconstruction of the post-war J.B. Priestley thriller “An Inspector Calls” was, for my money, one of the best English-language productions of …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:10PMSomewhere in the mid-1960s, Lee Radziwill (nee Bouvier), the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy and a socialite officially known as Princess Lee Radziwill following her 1959 marriage to Pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMThe consortium of universities known as the Big Ten has famous football and basketball programs (Go Buckeyes!), and a plethora of other varsity sports from lacrosse to judo to 10-pin bowling…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PMAugust Wilson believed strongly in leverage — the idea that, in a capitalist economy, we have to be cognizant of our value in the marketplace, understanding that our clout can and will go …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMThe word Amazon is never mentioned in Abe Koogler’s play “Fulfillment Center” — I suspect Koogler is well aware of the giant retailer’s capacity for litigation — but this wry, po…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:15PMQuestion: Which Broadway show has the highest audience demand in Chicago right now? “Hamilton” or “Dear Evan Hansen”? Answer: “Dear Evan Hansen,” the moody musical about a loving…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:15PMNever mind Ross, Rachel, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler and Monica for a second. Forget The Ophthalmologist, The Ugly Naked Guy, The One With the Monkey, The Ones Where Everyone Got Paid One Million…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMDid you know you die three times? According to Abe — the deep-thinking character played by Jake Gyllenhaal, no less, in the depressing double bill at the Public Theater — you actually co…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:00PM“Dear Evan Hansen” is one of those rare Broadway musicals to seep into the consciousness of its target demographic — the first national tour opened at the newly renamed Nederlander The…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:10PM“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” the new Broadway musical about the life and work of Michael Jackson, has canceled its Chicago tryout, slated for this fall. A New York spokesman for…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:40PMSo excruciating were the acceptance speeches at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards that Trevor Noah compared them to irritating people who wait in line at Chipotle, “get to the front and go, �…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:45PMIn 1991, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company opened its $8.28 million theater at 1650 N. Halsted St., finally jettisoning its old digs in a converted dairy barn. It picked the American premiere …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMMel Brooks was ecstatic. Anne Bancroft danced on a nearby table. Matthew Broderick chuckled. Even Nathan Lane cracked a smile. “The Producers” was a hit. In fact, the spin-off musical fr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:40PMWith major new funding from the property developer Sterling Bay, the Harris Theater plans a diverse and ambitious 2019-20 season, including visits from Bangarra Dance Theatre of Australia an…
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