Monday, May 25, 2015
Graham 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, ...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMBroadway and film veteran Ann Reinking will collaborate with Chicago-based choreographer Melissa Thodos to create “The White City: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893,” a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
“Big Fish,” the musical based on Daniel Wallace’s 1998 book and popular 2003 film, arrived ...
The post Hooking the heart of “Big Fish,” a Broadway musical that…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:08PMSome directors hide on opening nights. Not PJ Paparelli, the artistic director of American Theater Company (ATC), who died Thursday, at the age of 40, in a car accident in Scotland. Earlier …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:49PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
The "Conga" line led straight to the lobby of Oriental Theater on Tuesday morning as Emilio and Gloria Estefan greeted the press in preparation for the debut of their Broadway-bound musical…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:34PMDuring its 42nd season as one of Chicago's top presenters of contemporary dance, the Dance Center of Columbia College will showcase the Stephen Petronio Company paying homage to American pos…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:01AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Here are the stats: Between July 19 and Aug. 16, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST), in association with the City of Chicago, the Chicago Park District and Boeing ,will continue the annua…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:05PMSunday, May 17, 2015
“What would you save? ” That is the provocative question posed in the TimeLine Theatre ...
The post Salvaging pieces of civilization in “Inana” appeared first on Chic…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:22PM"Shining Lives: A Musical," the fervent yet poetic chamber work now receiving a fittingly radiant world premiere at Northlight Theatre, is, above all, a story of courage and determination in…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:53PMThursday, May 14, 2015
These days, if you have the money, you can sign up for a cruise to Antarctica that comes complete with luxury accommodations, scholarly lectures, island stops, penguin and whale-sightings, a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:33PMOn stage, and in the recording studio, they produced gorgeous harmonies, selling 175 million records. Off stage, dissonance was the rule. That tension between artistic blending and personal …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:38PMWednesday, May 13, 2015
Based on a true story, "Shining Lives: A Musical," based on the Melanie Marnich play, tells of the young women who worked at the Radium Dial Company factory in Ottawa, Illinois, in the 1920s…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:00PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Dianne Wiest, the Academy Award-winning actress, will narrate the concert version of Debussy's opera, "Pelleas et Melisande," part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's "French Reveries &…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:00PMThe Goodman Theatre announced that it plans to establish the Alice B. Rapoport Center for Education and Engagement. The $15 million expansion effort (of which more than $10 million has been …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:59AMMonday, May 11, 2015
A show more lip-smackingly delicious than biscuits and grits that comes smothered with a heaping side of evil.
That's what you get with the Goodman Theatre revival of "The Little Foxes," Lil…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:59PMThe 2015-2016 season of Steppenwolf for Young Adults will feature two productions: Andrew White's Jeff Award-winning stage adaptation of George Orwell's "1984," to be directed by Hallie Gord…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:59PMSaturday, May 9, 2015
In 2002, in the wake of years of scandalous revelations and inaction, the Vatican issued ...
The post No doubt about the explosive power of “Doubt” at Writers Theatre appeared fi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:14PMThursday, May 7, 2015
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance has come up with a glittering lineup of international, national and Chicago-based dance companies for its 2015-2016 season. Among the offerings will b…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:45PMMartha Lavey, who has served in the highly influential position of artistic director of Steppenwolf ...
The post Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Martha Lavey hospitalized appeared firs…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:28PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
Why did Chicago's public housing initiatives go so terribly wrong along the way? Or was the writing on the wall even before the first concrete block was laid in the ground? These are among t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:11PMTuesday, May 5, 2015
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced that it will extend the run of its world premiere production of "Sense and Sensibility" through June 14. The musical adaptations of Jane Austen's…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:23PMHas Russian choreographer Boris Eifman been reading that era-defining classic of American literature, "The Great Gatsby"? Audiences will discover the answer to that intriguing question when …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:54PMChicago likes its Cash. Johnny Cash, that is. And now, with "Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash," a rousing revue at Mercury Theater Chicago, he is the subject of a full-fledged, quasi-b…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:21PMMonday, May 4, 2015
Russ Tutterow was not a man to seek the spotlight, but under the right circumstances his quietly bemused and avuncular gaze was known to give way to a display of rapier sharp wit. Tutterow, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:25AMSunday, May 3, 2015
Chicago actress Erin Myers invariably left a vivid impression on stage and in real life. She died Saturday, after a brief but brutal battle with cancer.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:02PMFriday, May 1, 2015
The League of Chicago Theatres has announced that Jackalope Theatre Company is the recipient of the 2015 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theatre Award. This is the ninth year of the award, whic…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:48PMWarren Leight’s gorgeous, heart-shredding, darkly funny “Side Man” is most often described as an autobiographical ...
The post In “Side Man,” playing a magnific…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:51PMThursday, April 30, 2015
Irish Theatre of Chicago (formerly Seanachaí Theatre Company) has announced its 2015-16 season, featuring a U.S premiere and two Midwest premieres. The company’s first-ever three-show sea…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:53PMA fire with heavy smoke has been reported from the construction site of Writers' Theatre's new home at 325 Tudor Place in Glencoe. The building, only partially complete, is set to open at th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:26PMThe classic rule about a musical is that the characters should begin to sing when their emotions can no longer be contained by mere words. Words (as well as the loss of them) are crucial in …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:59PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
Since its debut in 1947, Tennessee Williams' scorcher of a play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," has been made into an iconic film starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando, received countless sta…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:00AM 
