Tuesday, January 27, 2015
"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 02:20PMMonday, January 26, 2015
Gina Gionfriddo’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” now receiving its Chicago premiere at the Goodman Theatre, bears ...
The post ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ lacks emotion…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00PMA leafless tree on a desolate road. And there they are, Vladimir and Estragon, those two homeless men in tattered bowler hats — one with stinky feet and the other with weak kidneys. Samuel…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:01PMSean Graney, who had stepped away from the artistic directorship of The Hypocrites three years ago, will resume his post.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:20PMSunday, January 25, 2015
Audiences headed to TimeLine Theatre to see one or both of Richard Nelson's tightly connected Apple Family plays — "That Hopey Changey Thing" and "Sorry" — are strongly advised to eat be…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:59PMFriday, January 23, 2015
There will be a world premiere play by Marcus Gardley as part of this season's lineup at the Victory Gardens Theatre. But instead of the previously announced "A Wonder in My Soul," audiences…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:14PMDrury Lane Theatre's grand-scale, emotionally wrenching production of "West Side Story" is a vivid reminder of the musical's enduring mix of tragic grandeur and streetwise savvy.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:34PMThursday, January 22, 2015
TUTA Theatre Chicago will present the U.S. premiere of French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce's "Music Hall," which will run Feb. 5-March 8 at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee. The production …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:22PMThe Michael Maggio Directing Fellow is a position named in honor of the theater's Late associate artistic director.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:30PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
It has been nearly a quarter of a century since Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas created the original edition of "Stomp." And here's the remarkable big bang of it all: This percussion spe…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:10AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
in Anne Washburn's painfully labored work, "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play," the Simpson family and its various enemies have been envisioned as pivotal characters in the attempted cultural …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:14PMMonday, January 19, 2015
Grant James Varjas' play, "Accidentally, Like a Martyr," which looks at the lives of several lonely, troubled men who gather in a gay bar on Christmas eve, is full of bitchy snap, crackle an…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:03PMBlind Summit, the British puppet theater company, first brought "The Table" to the stage of Chicago Shakespeare Theater Upstairs in Oct. 2013, and I've been delighting in the memory of it ev…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:02PMAll of Tennessee Williams' plays deal with the same conundrum: The desperate search for love, the ecstatic feeling of having found it, the resentment faced by those who do find it, and the i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:03PMSunday, January 18, 2015
That much-abused but visionary pinball wizard is back. And you can find him at the ...
The post Paramount rocks into dark world of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ appeared first on Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:51PMFriday, January 16, 2015
For its production of "The Herd," a comic play by Roy Kinnear, Steppenwolf Theatre will be staging something of a company reunion.
The post Cast for “The Herd” a real Steppenwolf…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:16PMThe sheer mind-boggling logistics involved in the seamless world premiere production of "Mementos Mori" — the masterful piece by Chicago-based Manual Cinema that opened to a packed house T…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:11PMThursday, January 15, 2015
Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced additional casting for its upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel," set to run April 10-May 3. Jenn Gambatese, who starred as Maria i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:59AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
That Alfred Hitchcock classic, "The Birds," has no doubt been perched in your consciousness for years. But "A Map of Virtue," Erin Courtney's strange, subtly haunting 90-minute psychological…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:03PMThe award-winning actor Anthony Crivello, whose varied credits include everything from playing Valentin in the ...
The post Tony winner Anthony Crivello to play Louis Prima in Chicago-bound …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:59PM"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the Broadway hit that received the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical, will launch its 44-week national tour in Chicago, playing Sept. 29 - Oct. 11 at…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:59AMDuring the past year, director, educator and filmmaker Kirsten Kelly has reaped the rewards of many years of work that in one way or another is connected to her intense relationship with tha…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:56AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Ken Prestininzi's "Cookie Play," now in its world premiere at Trap Door Theatre, is such a repellant and predictable piece of political claptrap that the temptation was not to write about it…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:12PMThe road is lengthening. The Steppenwolf Theatre production of “Airline Highway,” Lisa D’Amour’s Broadway-bound play ...
The post ‘Airline Highway’ extend…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:26PMMonday, January 12, 2015
The Hypocrites, the theater behind such recent marathons as "All Our Tragic" and the rotating repertory of Gilbert & Sullivan adaptations, has announced casting for the two final produc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:59PMChicago actress Jennifer Coombs is replacing Robin Weigert in "Rapture, Blister, Burn," the play that begins performances Jan. 17 at the Goodman Theatre.
The post Cast change for GoodmanR…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:00AMSunday, January 11, 2015
The 2015 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, founded by Blair Thomas, will showcase 20 different productions by a wide array of artists to be presented on a dozen different stages…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:24PMFriday, January 9, 2015
"The Color Purple" is returning to Broadway in the fall of 2015. And Chicago-bred Oscar and Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson will make her Broadway debut in the role of Shug Avery.
The po…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:36PMThursday, January 8, 2015
"Newsies" musical broke a box office record in Chicago.
The post Extra, Extra!: “Newsies” set box office record in Chicago appeared first on Chicago Entertainment - Chicago Sun-T…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:38PMAfter an absence of more than a year, actress Kate Fry will return to the stage as part of the cast of Northlight Theatre's production of John Patrick Shanley's "Outside Mullingar."
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:03PMThe hit musical "Once" is returning to Chicago in June.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:11AM 
