Wednesday, April 8, 2015
With the first announcement that "Louis and Keely 'Live' at the Sahara" — a music-packed play directed by filmmaker Taylor Hackford — was to arrive at the Royal George Theatre, I headed …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:41AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
Watching Diaz's "The Upstairs Concierge," which received its world premiere Monday on the stage of the Goodman's Owen Theatre, it was difficult to believe this was the work of the same playw…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:18PMThe enduring grandeur and brilliance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musicals hardly needs further explanation. “Oklahoma!,” ...
The post ‘Carousel’ ready to spin …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:00AMMonday, April 6, 2015
The League of Chicago Theatres has launched a new fund to help improve the city’s performing arts venues. With the support of a $500,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:34PMChicago freelance director Lavina Jadhwani has been named one of five Fellows selected to receive a prestigious National Directors Fellowship from the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Wate…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:04PMFriday, April 3, 2015
When FWD Theatre Project — the Chicago-based organization designed to “push forward the discovery, development ...
The post FWD Theatre Project to stage concert version of new musica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:27PMIn Rohina Malik's lovely play, "The Mecca Tales,"fnow at Chicago Dramatists, five Muslim-American women confront the difficulties of going on the Hajj, but more crucially, they come to terms…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:47PMThursday, April 2, 2015
Jessie Fisher, the actress who began her career in Chicago — and then went on to win plaudits when she took over the lead in the hit Broadway production of "Once" — is headed "home." Fi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:59PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
For “Travesties,” Tom Stoppard’s fabulously fanciful and altogether brilliant 1974 play — now receiving a ...
The post Remy Bumppo propels Stoppard’s “Travest…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:08PMOn stage at the Royal George Theatre recently, the guys in the band were warming up, stepping around as they played a brassy riff from "Louis and Keely, 'Live' at the Sahara," the new "play …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:15PMMonday, March 30, 2015
For those with a literal turn of mind, a play called "Title and Deed" might suggest issues of ownership and the transfer of real estate. But while groundedin the more primal realities of man…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:44PMSunday, March 29, 2015
"The Good Book," the play by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson now receiving a supremely artful world premiere at Court Theatre, is so full of complexity, ambition, contradiction, humor, satire…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:31PMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Windy City Playhouse, Chicago's newest Equity theater — a grand-scale storefront with an elaborate lobby bar located at 3014 W. Irving Park Rd. — has made an intriguing choice for its op…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:30PMNow, more than three decades after Steppenwolf's fabled production of Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead," director Jonathan Berry has gathered a cast of 30 actors for the Griffin Theatre prod…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:42PMWhere can you possibly go after "An Iliad," an adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic? Well, if you are actor Denis O'Hare and director Lisa Peterson you head straight to the Bible.
The p…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00PMIn addition to the previously announced world premiere adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” ...
The post Lookingglass Theatre announces full lineup for 201…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:59AMMonday, March 23, 2015
In what is surely a coup for Kokandy Productions, which is devoted to producing topnotch musicals on an intimate scale, the company has announced it has secured the rights to the Chicago pre…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:33PMJust call it "the ongoing miracle on Galena Boulevard." Once again, Aurora's Paramount Theatre has pulled out all the stops for one of its Broadway Series shows— this time with a lavish pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:49PMSunday, March 22, 2015
John Patrick Shanley's masterful play, "Outside Mullingar," is a tale of thwarted possession of hearts, of land and of self. A superbly acted 90-minute wonder, it is far more comic than trag…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:08PMFriday, March 20, 2015
"Genius" is so New York. And that is not just because Kate Walbert's 75-minute play, now in its world premiere by Profiles Theatre, shifts between the upscale Soho loft of a successful and i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:11PMSteppenwolf Theatre has now joined the Goodman Theatre as the recipient of a major award for new work by way of the Roy Cockrum Foundation.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:28PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Lifeline Theatre, the enduring company in Rogers Park whose motto, "Big Stories, Up Close," captures it devotion to stage adaptations of books both classic and contemporary, has announced it…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:32PMKokandy Productions has returned to Theater Wit with a rousing, boldly intimate take on "The Full Monty," that jazzy blue collar musical that moves to the beat of David Yazbek's audacious sc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:41PMThe American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi ...
The post American Theater Critics Association Names six finalists (with two from Chicag…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:48PMThis is the season of season announcements, and Victory Gardens Theater has just named the plays and directors who will be part of its 2015-2016 season. Among them, in the spring of 2016, wi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:59PMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Talk about mixing it up. For its 41st season, Northlight Theatre will present an eclectic mix that runs the gamut from world premiere comedy to comic chestnut, along with a mother-son drama …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:24PMThe Paramount Theatre, Aurora’s historic Art Deco treasure, has become one of the great success ...
The post Paramount Theatre’s 2015-2016 season includes classics, old and new a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:59AMMonday, March 16, 2015
For anyone still in need of an explanation of why August Wilson should be on ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00PMVeteran Chicago actor Ronald Keaton is on a roll. His one man show, "Churchill," which last season enjoyed a hugely successful run at the Greenhouse Theatre here — and subsequently moved t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:01PMWith her performance of "Annaleigh Ashford - Lost in the Stars," a cabaret-style show that will play for one night only (March 21) at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, the actress…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:37PMFriday, March 13, 2015
Balanchine-gone-wild by way of Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano. The nature of male and female eroticism and ritual by way of that European master, Jiri Kylian. A knockout solo …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:15PM 
