Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Ervin 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 04:39PMChristopher Wheeldon, director and choreographer of the upcoming Broadway musical, "An American in Paris," will choreograph a new version of "The Nutcracker" for the Joffrey Ballet, set to d…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:59PMMonday, February 16, 2015
Whatever your thoughts might be about artificial insemination, surrogate births and all the other engineered wonders of modern science aimed at producing children, it is an almost certain be…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:47PMSunday, February 15, 2015
In David Adjmi's play, "Marie Antoinette," the queen of the title arrives, as we might expect, in an airy layer cake of a gown — tiers of pink chiffon embellished with flowers — and a ha…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:59PMFriday, February 13, 2015
Here is a pressing question: Is "First Date," the 90-minute musical revue now on stage at the Royal George Cabaret, an appropriate destination for an actual first date?
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:26PMThursday, February 12, 2015
To cut to the chase: The Joffrey Ballet's "Unique Voices"program, which created a palpable buzz in the audience on opening night, is nothing short of sensational. And it's cheeky to boot.
Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:57PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
"Sondheim on Sondheim," now in a Porchlight Music Theatre production, is an intriguing hybrid of revue-meets-documentary devoted to the life and work of the composer-lyricist who has created…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:12PMTo celebrate her 50th anniversary as a dance-maker, choreographer Twyla Tharp will create two new works to be presented as part of a 10-week, 15-city North-American tour.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:37PMAmong those cast: Matthew Hydzik; Tony Award winner Jarrod Emick; Two-time Tony Award nominee Charlotte d’Amboise; And two-time Tony Award nominee Tony Roberts.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:56PMDisney’s award-winning musical, "The Lion King," directed by Julie Taymor, is set for a seven-week engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph, that will run Dec. 2, 2015 th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:31PMThe Chicago Humanities Festival has announced two major changes at the top.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:59AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
Arenas' "Marie Antoinette" is no historical relic but a playfully anachronistic version of the queen and her world — one that is a hipper, more contemporary portrayal of the woman.
The pos…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PMFriday, February 6, 2015
Note to Broadway (and not for the first time): If you want to see how to make a musical really snap into place — and how to connect with an audience in that uncanny way that is so crucial …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:23PMThursday, February 5, 2015
The Chicago Flamenco Festival 2015, running Feb. 6-March 7, promises to be the best way to counter winter.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:28PMRaven Theatre, where a zesty production of Horton Foote's play, "Dividing the Estate," opened earlier this week, today announced the resignation of its executive director, Kelli Strickland, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:59PMThere are two ways to think about "La Cage aux Folles," the musical that debuted on Broadway in 1983, and was based on a French play that appeared a decade earlier.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:30PMPorchlight Music Theatre, currently midway into its all-Sondheim season, has announced the four shows to ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:37AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Pride Films and Plays will be transferring its world premiere production of "The Book of Merman" for a six-week engagement at the Apollo Theater Studio.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:58PMThe team for "First Wives Club," the new musical based on the hit 1996 film comedy, "met the press" Wednesday at Chicago's Oriental Theatre.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:27PMThe Joffrey Ballet enjoyed unprecedented success with its two most recent full-length "story ballets."But now comes the nut that's often the hardest to crack: attracting audiences to a mixed…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00PMThe Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) — the organization that “creates community through American tap ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:59AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Russ Tutterow, who has served as Chicago Dramatists’ first and only artistic director for 30 ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:20PM"Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem" weaves together the lives of the great Yiddish writer whose stories inspired "Fiddler on the Roof."
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:03PMWith all its talk about real estate, inheritance taxes, the oil business, bankruptcy, foreclosure, foreign investment, education and immigrants, you might suspect that "Dividing the Estate" …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:17PMMonday, February 2, 2015
Annaleigh Ashford, who created the role of Lauren, the loyal and enterprising employee in the hit Broadway musical "Kinky Boots," is headed to Chicago's Broadway Playhouse for a one-night-o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:32PMIn Stephanie Alison Walker's fierce and troubling play, a daughter faces the harrowing and tragic realization that her mother is suffering from early onset dementia.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:37PMSaturday, January 31, 2015
Bruce Graham's play, "White Guy on the Bus," now in its world premiere at Northlight Theatre under the take-no-prisoners direction of BJ Jones, is an altogether incendiary examination of rac…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:56PMThursday, January 29, 2015
Was this man more or less dead for most of his 58 years? And did he only briefly "wake up" as the clock of his life was ticking down to the final minutes of his semi-conscious state in the w…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:46PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
"Shirt Off My Back," choreographer Ray Mercer's new work for Giordano Dance Chicago, grew out of a conversation about relationships he had with friends in the cast of "The Lion King," the Br…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00PMChicago-based actress and writer Sandra Delgado has been named one of four recipients of 2015 Joyce Awards designed to support collaborations between artists of color and leading arts and cu…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:42PM"Wonderland, Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure" — a new family musical created by director Rachel Rockwell and music director Michael Mahler — will be presented by the Chicago Childre…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:20PM 
