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Friday, September 20, 2019

EXPO Chicago 2019 is Nick Cave’s show by Deanna Isaacs

Acres of art and a chance to observe capitalism at its looniest Let’s get right to the important stuff: the hot fashion tip from EXPO Chicago 2019, the big int…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:17PM
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Endangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building by Deanna Isaacs

Endangered: Chicago’s ‘best’ postmodern building Hello, global visitors to the third Chicago Architecture Biennial. Welcome!…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Passing the baton at Lyric Opera by Deanna Isaacs

Music director Andrew Davis will be succeeded by Enrique Mazzola, in two years Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that music director Andrew Davis will end …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 02:57PM
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

At Theater on the Lake, a free Prologue to a free season by Deanna Isaacs

Theater on the Lake kicks off its season with a free three-day seminar for the Chicago theater community. As this cold, wet June wore on and no schedule had been…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM
Saturday, June 15, 2019

Third Eye Theatre Ensemble's Stitch plays for one more powerful night by Deanna Isaacs

In a tour de force, an a cappella trio of women capture the drudgery of factory sewing. Third Eye Theatre Ensemble is offering a labor of love this weekend with …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:10PM
Friday, May 31, 2019

The CSO and the Joffrey, together at last! by Deanna Isaacs

But a program of Stravinsky, Ravel, and Rossini at Symphony Center shows neither to its best advantage. In an interesting experiment this weekend, two of the cit…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 03:55PM
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Ripped from the headlines of 1957, West Side Story still has plenty to say about 2019 by Deanna Isaacs

The Lyric’s faithful revival addresses immigration, discrimination, and changing neighborhoods, but it’s the women who are the stars. Sometime in the 1940s, …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PM
Friday, April 26, 2019

Chicago Opera Theater's Moby-Dick is well worth chasing down by Deanna Isaacs

It'll banish all your memories of English-class torture. Whatever your history with Moby-Dick—even if you were a disgruntled teenager on a forced English class…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:00PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

An American Dream tackles Japanese-American internment during WWII by Deanna Isaacs

Lyric Opera’s outreach arm presents a contemporary chamber opera that grew out of two true stories. This is what the bad guys did in WWII: rounded up entire fa…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:39PM
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Two more 2016 surprises: The end of Oracle Productions, and the end of the Hypocrites as we know them by Deanna Isaacs

The Chicago theater community got a pair of year-end jolts with December announcements about the demise of Oracle Productions and the near demise of the Hypocrites. …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 05:45PM
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

A sudden lights out for Too Much Light at Neo-Futurists by Deanna Isaacs

Neo-Futurists founder Greg Allen made the surprising announcement today that he's ending the 28-year Chicago run of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind on December 31st. He's doing so in …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 08:08PM
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Love and humor trumped loss at a memorial for Chicago Dramatists' Russ Tutterow by Deanna Isaacs

Russ Tutterow was a playwright's "greatest advocate and friend," Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls said Monday night, welcoming about 300 members of Chicago's theater community …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 01:42PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Chicago: America's theater capital? | Deanna Isaacs | Chicago Reader by Deanna Isaacs

Surely no words ever written by any theater critic stirred more local buzz than Michael Billington's 2004 observation in London's Guardian that "Chicago . . . [is] the current theatre capita…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 06:52AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards