'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" was named top production of a play as well as best newwork of the 2009-10 Chicago theater season at Monday night's 42nd annua...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThere are times in the theater -- and Robert Falls' altogether splendid new interpretation of Chekhov's "The Seagull" is one of them -- when you almost believe the playwright is looking down…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe opening scene in Scott T. Barsotti's new play, "McMeekin Finds Out," is the one and only reason to bother catching this Route 66 Theatre Company production.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMIt begins like any other day for Joseph K., even if it does happen to be his 30th birthday. Of course, those familiar with The Trial, one of Franz Kafka'sseminal no...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWill the most genuinely gifted of the two young writers in Itamar Moses' play "The Four of Us" please stand up?
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWhat more can possibly be said about Julia Child, that tall, gangly woman with the high-pitched voice who could so joyfully spank a chicken, and so unexpectedly send hordes of Americans hook…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PM"To Master the Art," the entirely delicious new play about Julia Child that opened this weekend at TimeLine Theatre, is a great appetite enhancer. It might even send the most fervent non-coo…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMLast year at this time, I wrote about an exhibition of the paintings of Mira Hermoni-Levine, an Israeli artist whose work (which I first discovered on the cover of a Playbill) is regularly e…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMPlaywright Julia Cho, the first-generation daughter of Korean immigrants, took extensive piano lessons from a variety of teachers in her youth. She wishes she had kept up with her musical tr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMSteppenwolf Theatre's First Look Repertory of New Work project, now in its sixth season, dubs the new plays it showcases as "developmental productions." In fact, th...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThat cross-pollinated form of performance dubbed "dance theater" is as multifaceted as the companies who create and perform it. Just consider the work of two radically different New York-bas…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe four British lads at the center of “Departure Lounge,” DouglasIrvine's playful yet wistful little 90-minute coming-of-age musical —that was discovered at the 2...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMIt would be wrong to describe Julia Cho's eerily compelling play, “The Piano Teacher,” now in a superbly acted Chicago premiere at Evanston's Next Theatre, as an exploration of t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMIt would be wrong to describe Julia Cho's eerily compelling play, “The Piano Teacher,” now in a superbly acted Chicago premiere at Evanston's Next Theatre, as an ex...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMOne excellent way to pay homage to this country's soldiers on Veteran's Day is to catch the single reprise performance of Griffin Theatre's immensely moving show, “Letters Home,”…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWill the most genuinely gifted of the two young writers in Itamar Moses' play "The Four of Us" please stand up?
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMFrom the look and sound of it all -- and be advised that it is drenched in fake blood, genuine sweat, ear-piercing screechiness, heavily bruising physicality and an...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWatching the formidable dancers of the River North Chicago Dance Company perform to a packed house at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on Saturday night, I fo...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe enterprising 16th Street Theatre, housed in the Berwyn Cultural Center at 6420 16th St., has announced its 2011 season. Dubbed "A Season of Change," it will include: "The Beats" (Jan. 13…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMOn the list of the greatest shows from the golden age of American musicals you invariably will find “Guys & Dolls,” “My Fair Lady,” “West Side Story” an...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMGranted, it might sound entirely counterintuitive to create a stage adaptation of “The Iliad” — Homer's massive epic about the madness and horrors of war — that is sp…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWith its 2010 Winter Pageant, Redmoon Theatre has devised a show that easily unites the generations — from geezers and boomers, to all those X,Y and Z types, to tho...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMBobby Hull, the Canadian-bred ice hockey great, has been in the sports spotlight since he was a teenager. But now, as he approaches his 72nd birthday, he is planning for his moment under the…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMPlaywright Paula Vogel grew up in Washington, D.C., and she has made that place the backdrop for “A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration,” her epic holiday show t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThere is a great deal of talent on the stage of Northlight Theatre now, where “A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration,” Paula Vogel's play with music, is filling …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWith her altogether spectacular and eye-opening production of “Cats,” now at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, director-choreographer Brenda Didier has ...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWith the ever more sinister-sounding Black Friday putting holiday shoppers in a state of high anxiety by Halloween, this might well be the ideal moment to bury your credit cards and avoid th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMHubbard Street Dance Chicago's four annual engagements at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance are brief but brilliant. So act quickly as the company makes its winter appearance, Dec. 2-5.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMUnless they are in their teens, you might want to consider leaving the kids at home for this year's edition of “A Christmas Carol” at the Goodman Theatre. veteran director Willia…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMLaughter may very well be the greatest gift one person can give to another. So let's just agree that Oscar Wilde remains a theatrical SantaClaus in a cl...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMGraham Greene was very much a man of the 20th century — a writer with a broad perspective on the seductive and corrupting aspects of international politics, ...
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