Friday, 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 05:15PMThursday, March 12, 2015
With its intimate, fiercely impassioned, superbly sung production of "Jesus Christ Superstar," Theo Ubique Cabaret Theater has tapped into the full meaning and power of this rock opera in a …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:02PM"First Wives Club" may have been a perfectly fine comedy of (bad) manners when it arrived as a film starring Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn back in 1996. But now, in its musical …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:18AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Court Theatre hasn't even begun previews for its world premiere production, "The Good Book," an intriguing exploration of the Bible by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson that will run March 19 -…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:14PMFor its 2015-2016 season, the Goodman Theatre will stage a number of less frequently produced ...
The post Bernstein, Hansberry, Wilder and more in Goodman Theatre’s 2015-2016 season a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:59PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
For Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, choreographing a new piece for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has been both a personal and artistic homecoming — a celebration of the city he calls his "second…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Passage on The Hypocrites' zany Gilbert & Sullivan productions is heavily booked — at two regional theaters.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:05PMThe Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has dubbed its 2015-2016 season "Biting the Apple." That's because the three plays selected — by Caryl Churchill, Noel Coward and Bertolt Brecht — all exp…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:28PMSunday, March 8, 2015
Steppenwolf Theatre's Garage Rep series proves that Gil Scott-Heron was right when he played on the Black Power Movement slogan, "The revolution will not be televised." Turns out it will app…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:47PMFriday, March 6, 2015
Playwrights Lucas Hnath and Anne Washburn, both familiar to Chicago audiences, are among the 10 writers honored with the Whiting Award. Each honoree receives $50,000.
The post Two playwright…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:20PMIn "For the Record: Dear John Hughes," the adolescent characters from his many hit 1980s films act out their angst and sing songs from the soundtracks of such films as "Pretty in Pink," "The…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:16PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
There can be no better reminder of the power of intimate spaces than the Writers Theatre's production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" that is now tucked into the back room of Glencoe's Books on…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:30PMDo not be fooled by the formal title of Mat Smart's "The Royal Society of Antarctica," the altogether world class, world premiere play that has just arrived at The Gift Theatre and is an imm…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:30PMTo meet the high demand for tickets to its galvanic production of "The Royale," Marco Ramirez's rhythmically-powered play about boxing, race and more, the American Theater Company, 1909 W. B…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:39PMSteppenwolf Theatre has announced its 2015-2016 subscription season which will mark the kickoff of the company's 40th anniversary. Among the productions to be produced will be a world premie…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:59AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Broadway In Chicago's 2015-2016 season will feature three Tony Award winners: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the revival of "Cabaret," and "Matilda The Musical." Also on the sched…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:10PMAugust Wilson did not invent African-American theater, although throughout the 1980s and ’90s it might ...
The post Goodman Theatre celebrates the legacy of August Wilson as part of ci…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:00PMMonday, March 2, 2015
Something extraordinary is happening on Scotland's stages these days, and it has resulted in the creation of two productions that serve as intriguing meditations on the futility (and inevita…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:42PMSunday, March 1, 2015
To start, a hypothetical question addressed to the powers that be at Steppenwolf Theatre: How would you react were you to arrive at work one morning only to discover that the entire facade o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:29PMFriday, February 27, 2015
The title of Steven Dietz's play, "Yankee Tavern," is a bit of a red herring, subtly calling to mind the communal bar scene of television's "Cheers." But Dietz, whose play is receiving a zes…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:23PMThursday, February 26, 2015
Those doorbells are ringing again at the Bank of America Theatre, and that can mean only one thing: "The Book of Mormon," the raucously irreverent Tony Award-winning musical with a book and …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:36AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Enter The Den Theatre, where director Halena Kays has staged a unique and wonderful production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" for The Hypocrites, and you really have to wonder just what she a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:00PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
What price glory? That is the ultimate, yet far from the only question posed in "The Royale," Marco Ramirez 's astonishing 75 minute play — a tightly laced glove of a drama about race, suc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:19PMMonday, February 23, 2015
In Lifeline Theatre's stage adaptation of Amy Timberlake's young adult novel, both the birds and the young women seem to have been in a state of profound upheaval in the town of Placid, Wisc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PMWhat do you do as an encore to a marathon of Greek tragedies and a re-envisioned take on Gilbert & Sullivan operettas? Well, if you are The Hypocrites, you try your hand at a rock music…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:12PMSunday, February 22, 2015
It is desperation as much as passion that drives the characters in "Therese Raquin," the opera with a score by Tobias Picker, and a lean, effective libretto by Gene Scheer, based on the 19th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:54PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Unquestionably it is a trend. Just as AIDS became the defining disease inspiring playwrights in the final two decades of the 20th century, dementia (most particularly the "early onset" form)…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:13PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Adam Gwon's "Ordinary Days," a theatrical song cycle now receiving an intimate, heartfelt Chicago debut by BoHo Theatre, captures the lives of four characters somewhat adrift in New York Cit…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:45PMTimeLine Theatre is devoted to presenting plays that are inspired by history and that connect to today’s social and political issues. The 2015-2016 season will feature an Arthur Miller pla…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:59PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
The three leading ladies of the new musical, "First Wives Club," chat about the show that is having its pre-Broadway tryout at Chicago's Oriental Theatre.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PMErvin Gardner's notably timely, clear, stylish, high-stakes courtroom drama might not generate the usual dancing in the seats as other Black ensemble productions, but the audience hung on ev…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:39PM 
