With 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…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:15PMA bad marriage — I hear — can feel like a trap. Slamming the door on a lousy union can be cathartic. Even if you have no idea what awaits you on the other side. But here’s something to…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMCity of Chicago is to officially announce Monday that $1 million has been secured in new funding to support the 2019 Year of Chicago Theatre initiative that officially begins this week, in t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:45PMMother with teenagers — a demographic famous for ignoring its own fragility — invariably worry about them. But African-American mothers, innumerable data points confirm, have particular …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PMNow in its Chicago premiere from the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Florian Zeller’s “The Father” is a play about dementia, that late-in-life affliction that can take down a giant person…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:55PMWhen the next big artistic job opens up in Chicago theater, I’ve got a name for the recruiters: Vanessa Stalling. In show after show, Stalling keeps making the case that her directing work…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMWhen the name of your theater company is Broken Nose Theatre, the temptation must arise to live up to your own billing. If not broken noses, bruised cheeks, tired calves and a whopping heada…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:20PMNina Simone seemed happy in the 1980s, singing in Ronnie Scott’s swinging London jazz club, a resident European star in front an adoring audience, wowing with the incomparable diversity of…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMIf they gave out awards for acting with your eyeballs, Matt Crowle would have no competition whatsoever. He can throw ’em back into his head, cross ’em nine ways to Sunday and, in a part…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:00PM“Howard Schultz — more bitter than his coffee,” tweeted the TV screenwriter Warren Leight on Wednesday, part of a torrent of social-media abuse, much of it from Hollywood, aimed at the…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMTo watch Ayad Akhtar’s “Junk,” an exciting, ambitious play about the glorification of hostile takeovers and the human costs of leveraged buyouts, in its 2017 Broadway premiere at New Y…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:50PMYou can make a killing in the theater, but not a living, goes the theatrical cliche. The playwright Steven Dietz, whose work never has been seen on Broadway, has achieved precisely the rever…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMThe ambition inherent in Christina Anderson’s heady, poetic and ambitious new play at the Goodman Theatre is right there in its title: “How to Catch Creation.” That’s quite a challen…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMTickets are to go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 15 to “Hamilton: The Exhibition,” the latest high-profile project involving Lin-Manuel Miranda and the creative team behind the hit Broadway mus…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00AMIn the worlds of science, journalism, tech, business and politics, hypothesizing is a whole lot sexier than offering proof. Come to think of it — and Anna Ziegler’s terrific new play at …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMLife teaches us that the funniest people we know often have been through the most personal trauma. You can see that with professional comedians, of course, and it can lead them into trouble.…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMOver the years, Chicago’s famous storefront-theater community occasionally has turned the lens upon itself. But in every such case that I recall, these shows have romanticized the struggle…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMIn 2004, a group of terrorists demanding independence for Chechnya descended upon School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking more than 1,100 people hostage. By the time the so-called Beslan…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:50PMHidden away in boxes and barns — or merely hanging in sumptuous plain sight — the gorgeous chandeliers and fixtures of the Uptown Theatre have been vacationing these past few years in Ba…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:48AMGriffin Theatre is no longer planning to move into a former Chicago police station at 1940 W. Foster Ave., said Ald. Pat O'Connor (40th) Wednesday in a note to neighborhood residents. Griffi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:30PMThe longtime Chicago actor Michael Shannon will star alongside Audra McDonald in a Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's famous two-hander, "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," it was…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:15PMA major new musical about Michael Jackson — set on the cusp of the iconic but controversial singer’s “Dangerous World Tour” and dealing more fully with his complex legacy than previo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMBroadway luminaries will gather at 24 W. Randolph St. in Chicago on Feb. 8 to celebrate the renaming of a theater, currently known as the Oriental, after one of their own — James M. Nederl…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00AMNow 37 years old, Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” is not only one of the funniest English-language farces of the 20th century but far and away the best comedy ever written about the peril…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMEveryone is named Jones in Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses,” which I last saw on Broadway in 2014 in a production starring Michael C. Hall, Marisa Tomei, Tracy Letts and Toni Collett…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PM“I just don’t feel gay anymore,” says one of the central characters in “Dada Woof Papa Hot,” a play by Peter Parnell with a terrible title but an honest desire to probe a particula…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30PM“Cardboard Piano,” the current show at the TimeLine Theatre, begins with a carefully planned sexual encounter between two teenagers in a church. On New Year’s Eve. Such a locale for a …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:30PMOne day before “Hamilton” opened on Jan. 11, an openly gay rapper and progressive activist named Kevin Fret was killed as he rode through San Juan. CNN reported that Fret’s death was p…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMDie young and there’s a fuss. Die at 97 and, even when you’ve enjoyed an iconic showbusiness career, you’ve likely to have been forgotten. Not Carol Channing. Even though her final tou…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:30PMThe arrogant, self-loathing theater critic — is there another kind? — at the heart — if he had one — of Conor McPherson’s “St. Nicholas” is a man of opinions. Strongly held vie…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:45PMWith his body draped in the Puerto Rican flag, his emotions struggling to get through the song named “Hurricane” and his presence celebrated all across San Juan, “Hamilton” creator L…
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