Thursday, January 8, 2015
The hit musical "Once" is returning to Chicago in June.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:11AMCourt Theatre has announced a power cast for the world premiere of "The Good Book."
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:18AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
The four plays being showcased in Pegasus Theatre Chicago's 28th annual Young Playwrights Festival may be the work of current or recent Chicago area high school students, but it would be a b…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:27PMThe one-man show written and performed by Ronald Keaton — which became a big hit at Chicago's Greenhouse Theater Center last year — is headed to New York.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:54PMThe three actresses (Faith Prince, Christine Sherrill and Carmen Cusack) who will star in "First Wives Club, The Musical" the Broadway-bound show that will have its Chicago tryout Feb. 17 - …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:30AMTuesday, January 6, 2015
Broadway is the strangest and least predictable of all the world's stages. The latest proof of this maxim is exemplified by the fate of Sting's new musical, "The Last Ship," which debuted in…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:07PMIn conjunction with its production of Lisa D'Amour's New Orleans-themed play, "Airline Highlway," Steppenwolf Theatre will host a free, Big Easy-themed EXPLORE event in its Garage Theatre on…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:38PMAs might be expected, not every piece is a jewel, but there are plenty of semi-precious stones in this little theatrical necklace.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:19PMThe work of John Hughes, the film director (and Chicago native) who helped define the youth culture of the 1980s in such wildly popular movies as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "W…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:08PMSaturday, January 3, 2015
There was something in the way she moved. But just as importantly, there was something ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:49PMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Eric Eatherly, vice president of the Silverman Group, one of Chicago’s leading public relations firms ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:42AMFriday, December 26, 2014
Dance companies are notoriously difficult to start, nurture and maintain. And few new contemporary troupes debut at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, and do so with the immense style, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:30PMMonday, December 22, 2014
The conventions of live musical theater and grand-scale movies are very different, and what audiences can accept in one form can sometimes seem ridiculous in the other.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00PMWednesday, December 17, 2014
One of the most intriguing trends during Chicago’s 2014 dance season was a renewed focus ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:26PMThis has been a year of impressive artistic productivity, as well as a time of ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:24PMMonday, December 15, 2014
"First Date," the little musical based around the concept of a blind date, is headed to Chicago, beginning previews Feb. 5 at the Royal George Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:59AMSunday, December 14, 2014
With its world premiere of "Airline Highway," Lisa D'Amour's Broadway-bound play with a post-Katrina, Big Easy backdrop, Steppenwolf Theatre appears to be channeling its early golden days of…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:06AMSaturday, December 13, 2014
"Newsies," which opened Friday at the Oriental Theater in an altogether phenomenal national touring edition — one that in many ways outshines the Broadway original — is a musical about h…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:19PMFriday, December 12, 2014
The great irony of "Twist Your Dickens, or Scrooge You!," The Second City's parody now playing on the Goodman Theatre's Owen stage (just across the lobby from the Goodman's long-established …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:31PMThursday, December 11, 2014
A serious gathering of musical theater talent is being brought together for Porchlight Music Theatre's Chicago premiere of "Sondheim on Sondheim." The revue, conceived by James Lapine, featu…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:04PMIn the wake of "The Art of Falling," its groundbreaking collaboration with The Second City, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has returned to pure dance mode.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:58PM"Pericles," one of the Bard's less frequently produced "romances," is now receiving an elaborate production that might have benefited from some judicious trimming.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:43PMTuesday, December 9, 2014
With its latest project, "The 48-Hour Musicals: Encore," The Music Theatre Company, Highland Park's enterprising operation devoted to "the commissioning of new works and musical experiments,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:52PMSara Ruhl's exquisite play, "The Clean House" is a perfect illustration of her philosophy of lightness, yet it is profound beyond all expectations.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:34PMPegasus Theatre Chicago will be staging its 28th annual Young Playwrights Festival in a new location. This showcase of professional productions of one-act plays penned by four emerging young…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:04PM"Newsies," the Disney Theatrical Productions stage musical based on the 1992 film of the same name, takes audiences back to a pivotal moment in newspaper boy history as it recounts the famou…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:30AMGustavo Ramirez Sansano, the gifted Spanish-bred choreographer who served from 2009-2013 as the highly innovative ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:59AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Great news for Maybe April, the all-female, Nashville-based, country music trio that has played at Martyr's in Chicago and includes 19-year-old Alaina Stacey, the Chicago-bred singer-songwri…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:24PMAnother Bette Midler movie is about to become a musical set for a pre-Broadway engagement in Chicago.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:59PMThe audience that packed the Auditorium Theatre for Friday's opening night performance of 'The Nutcracker" was a testament to the enduring charms of this dance-and-spectacle-filled classic t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:22PMFriday, December 5, 2014
The Second City is in high drive at the moment with an exceptionally fine new mainstage revue, "Panic on Cloud 9," easily its best show in a long time. The show taps into a long list of elem…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:35PM 
