Without question, it's the rhythm that's gonna get you in "On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan," the new Broadway-bound musical that spins the story of the early years of th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:50PMThe announcement on Tuesday that Abby Mueller would be playing the title role in the national touring production of the Broadway hit, "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical" - following in the…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:04PMIn what might be seen as a unique case of "sibling revelry," the producers of "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical" have announced that Abby Mueller will headline the national tour of that h…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:02PMThe Irish playwright Conor McPherson has spun any number of what might be dubbed existential ghost stories, including "The Weir," "Shining City" and "Port Authority." So it is not at all sur…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:51PMImpressive news from the Joffrey Ballet: The company has raised more than the required $1 million needed to meet the challenge grant of $500,000 it received from the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Fou…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:36PMImagine a Jerry Springer episode that featured a feud among the members of a highly educated, affluent, African American family, with a couple of visiting romantic partners, and the teenage …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:09PM"Once," which has returned to Chicago for an all too brief engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, weaves a spell around its audience in ways that are unlike those of any other Broadway m…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:24PMArt and history have a funny way of tripping each other up. Consider the case of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, who are now the subjects of the new musical, "On Your Feet!" which is about to ope…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:50PMAs a character in Regina Taylor's provocative play, "stop.reset." observes, we've already cloned sheep, so isn't some form of cloning of the human soul not far behind? The Goodman Theatre pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:00PMTheo Ubique, the cabaret theater in the Rogers Park neighborhood that, under the artistic direction of Fred Anzevino performs major miracles on its small storefront stage, has announced its …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:03PMBonnie Metzgar has been named interim artistic of American Theater Company. The post Bonnie Metzgar named interim artistic director of American Theater Company appeared first on Chicago Ente…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:51AMJackie Taylor, founder and artistic director of the Black Ensemble Theater (BET), is a woman with a longstanding, all-consuming mission. So when you ask her about the thinking behind BET's f…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:54PMThe 1991 musical based on Francis Hodgson Burnett's 1911childrens novel - with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon - is a sophisticated beauty. And the Court Theatre rev…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:27PMThe New York-based Shubert Foundation looks well past Broadway, giving support to theaters and other ... The post Shubert Foundation give grants to 20 Chicago theaters appeared first on Chic…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:17PM“The Drowning Girls,” a work by three female playwrights that reflects on the misconceptions of ... The post Signal Ensemble welcomes “Drowning Girls” playwrights and…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:21PMChicago theaters keep upping the ante in their feverish goal to showcase new plays. The latest example is Victory Gardens Theater, which has long forged its identity on presenting new work, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:04PMSteppenwolf Theatre has announced the lineup for its 10th annual First Look series, the program dedicated to new play development that will run in rotating repertory Aug. 11 – 16 in the Up…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:00PMSick, sicker, sickest. And doomed. That is the most accurate shorthand for describing the four troubled and twisted characters in "Our New Girl," the work of Dublin-bred, London-based playw…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:36PMDuring the past several decades "the Indian subcontinent" has changed dramatically, and a whole new artistic energy has emerged. It is this art - in many disciplines, and with all its links …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:00PMHedy Weiss: Give the audience a great old-fashioned musical and you just make everyone happy. That was the unanimous sentiment -- pronounced loudly, and with b...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMBroadway giant hits the target at Ravinia
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMSet in a grimy, mouse-infested Brooklyn auto parts warehouse in the late 1930s -- as the Great Depression lingers and Hitler is rising to power in Germany ...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMAfter 34 years of dreaming, eight years of planning and four years of an intensive $16 million fund-raising campaign that coincided with a profoundly trouble...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMUnion musicians in Chicago are playing hardball with the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, putting in jeopardy a much-anticipated Chicago premiere of choreographer Mark Morris' new work "R…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMHedy Weiss: The sheer jaw-dropping intensity of the opening dance sequence in the galvanic revival of "A Chorus Line" at the Marriott Theatre might leave you wondering w...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMHedy Weiss: Paul Mullin's "Louis Slotin Sonata," now in its Midwest premiere at A Red Orchid Theatre, is an exceedingly ambitious, frequently flawed play about everythi...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PM"Pandemonium: The Lost and Found Orchestra," a new show by "Stomp" creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, will play Oct. 12-17 at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe first thing you notice about Laurie Metcalf is how incredibly buff she is. Not an ounce of fat on her petite frame. And not a hint of makeup on her face,...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMDebate and argument are essential elements of Jewish life, whether undertaken in public settings or in the privacy of the home.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMHedy Weiss: You can think about "Detroit," Lisa D'Amour's desperation-fueled, ofteninfantile new play at the Steppenwolf Theatre, in any number of ways. Though it might...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThink of "Thieves Like Us," now in an exceptionally stylish world premiere stage production by the House Theatre of Chicago, as a more subtle version of "Bon...
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