Thursday, August 31, 2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023
“The Magic Parlour,” performed for some 15 years at the Palmer House, is moving to Petterino's.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMThursday, August 17, 2023
Theater in both Chicago and America has changed so much since 2019, it is almost unrecognizable. A long list of our storefront companies have closed.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
John Berendt's bestseller is set in Savannah, Georgia, and became a 1997 Clint Eastwood movie.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AMTuesday, August 15, 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023
At the Nederlander Theatre in the Loop, the atmosphere was electric and the action on stage was halted several times for standing ovations.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:56AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
Monday, August 7, 2023
If you go and see this show, you’ll never again travel through Albany Park without turning your head and looking up anew at its windows.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMThursday, August 3, 2023
Frenetically paced, relentlessly comedic and visually chaotic, this show is aimed squarely at middle America. God bless it for that.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMThe new musical based on the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie is New York-bound.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:55AMWednesday, July 26, 2023
This show celebrates the power ballads, guitar-driven romps and heavy-metal masterworks of 1980s classic rock, god rest its soul.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:15AMTuesday, July 25, 2023
In essence, Sandy Rustin (known for ”Clue,” the play) has penned an ersatz version of a Noel Coward comedy, as retrofitted for today’s sensibilities.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMMonday, July 24, 2023
The audience at my performance was well aware it was sitting in a great Chicago theater, listening to the words of one of the greatest playwrights ever born.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:33PMThursday, July 20, 2023
The new show at the Broadway Theatre is as artful as it is radically inventive: Think Imelda as a needy, up-from-the-sticks Evita and you won’t be far wrong.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMWednesday, July 19, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
The playwright and director has a terrific setting and concept for a great play, but not yet that play.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:00PMMonday, July 3, 2023
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Friday, June 30, 2023
The theater has seen audiences drop away in recent months, artistic director Heidi Stillman said.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:55PMThursday, June 29, 2023
What better show is there for a ]young non-Equity Chicago theater company than Stephen Sondheim’s backwards-moving musical of artistic dreams?
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:35AMTuesday, June 27, 2023
This new version of the 1969 album is truly a ready-for-prime-time stunner with enough assets to bring its Chicago audience to its feet.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:22AMMonday, June 26, 2023
Writers write what they know, and it seems reasonable to assume that Kate Arrington is drawing from her relationship with movie star Michael Shannon.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:05PMThursday, June 22, 2023
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Monday, June 19, 2023
He bills himself as the philosopher-magician, theming his show around ideas and beliefs. It’s a stimulating nerd-magic niche.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:04PMThursday, June 15, 2023
For anyone who cares about classy nights out on Michigan Avenue, this new jukebox musical is a very positive development.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:25PMPete Townshend, who was in his early 20s when he wrote most of “Tommy,” is now 78 years old as the album-turned-Broadway musical plots a Chicago comeback
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMSunday, June 11, 2023
The 2023 awards had to thread the needle between supporting a strike by the Writers Guild and presenting a ceremony regarded as essential to a still struggling Broadway’s health.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:20PMThursday, June 8, 2023
Daydreams are the least of the subconscious worries of Second City’s fabulously diverse mainstage cast.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:37PMAs was typical with Mortensen when playing characters facing trauma, emotions remained veiled at first, only to spill out with intensity.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:43PM 
