Friday, 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 01:35PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
I am not in the habit of reviewing the audience. But when a director can turn a crowd of about 200 mostly young, trendily dressed Wicker Park types into the happily participatory members at …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:43PMThe Black Ensemble Theater has titled its 2015 season “Stir Up the Pot,” and it ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:04PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
With four or five hit songs plucked from their Motown past combined with 16 or 17 new songs penned specially for "First Wives Club," their first Broadway musical, the fabled team of Holland-…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:23PMSteppenwolf Theatre will honor actress Laurie Metcalf, one of its founding members, at its annual ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:49PMMonday, December 1, 2014
Saturday night's performance by Thodos Dance Chicago marked the first entry in the Auditorium Theatre's 125th anniversary "Made in Chicago" dance series, and it was impressive on many counts…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:21PMNadia Ezaldein, the 22-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a former boyfriend this ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:34PMThe Paramount Theatre production of “Mary Poppins” may be billed as a musical, but in ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:01PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
This city is about to become puppet-town central. Not only is the Chicago International Puppet ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:37PMMonday, November 24, 2014
Thodos Dance Chicago will kick off the Auditorium Theatre's 125th anniversary "Made in Chicago" dance series with a program of works that in one way or another are deeply rooted in this city…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:21PMThe rapid-fire shifts from ferocity to hilarity that characterize this season's Goodman Theatre production of "A Christmas Carol" are evident from the start.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:08PMSaturday, November 22, 2014
t is a very good bet that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the English writer most widely known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, would adore "Lookingglass Alice." In fact, there are moments when, wa…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:59PMIn "The Testament of Mary," Colm Toibin's fiercely real, intensely provocative, and (as some might label it) heretical one-woman play, the mother of Jesus finally has her say.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:18PMAs first speculated here in August, the Chicago Children’s Theater is to get a new ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:10AMFriday, November 21, 2014
Visceral Dance Chicago, which made a hugely impressive debut here last season, returns to the Harris Theater for Music and Dance with works by such gifted contemporary choreographers as Oh…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:19PMFor nine decades, the Goodman Theatre has been an esteemed anchor of the Chicago theater scene — at once the granddaddy of them all and a serial innovator.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:11PMThursday, November 20, 2014
“Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Musical) ??? RECOMMENDED ± Through ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:16PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
Santa or Satan? "Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale," a holiday musical about a heavy metal band that makes a Faustian bargain, will not be a threat to Charles Dickens.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:52PMFor anyone who failed to see Rachel Rockwell's transcendent 2012 production of "Annie" at Aurora's Paramount Theatre, the national touring company revival of "Annie" that opened Tuesday nigh…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:07PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
It's generally a very good sign when the band arrives on stage wearing cowboy hats. And when the music they're playing is drawn from the Patsy Cline songbook the deal is all but sealed. Add …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:21PMMany theater companies close their doors with a trail of red ink behind them. A rare exception is Theatre Seven of Chicago, which earlier this year announced it would be disbanding, and is n…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:44PMGathering a family around the dinner table for a big meal that is bound to run amok is one of the great conceits of modern theater. And of course the more dysfunctional that family might be …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:53PMMonday, November 17, 2014
The Dance Theatre of Harlem is an example of the way something of enormous hope and beauty can be born out of immense pain and tumult.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:08PMSunday, November 16, 2014
Director Jonathan Berry's Northlight Theatre revival of Agatha Christie's classic whodunit is exceptionally smart, subtly dark, hilariously funny, supremely well cast and absolutely airtight…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:01PMChicago theaters and their audiences have been engaging in an intense love affair with the ancient Greeks in recent seasons. And now comes Court’s fierce, modern, crystal clear rendering o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:39PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Berwyn's 16th Street Theater has announced its 2015 season and it comes with the umbrella title of "Fathers Daughters Mothers Sons." Featuring three world premieres by three award-winning fe…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:05PMThe Albany Park Theater Project (APTP), Chicago's widely admired, award-winning, multi-ethnic youth theater ensemble that creates emotionally and artistically rich original works, has announ…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:22PMKing Louis XIV of France was a great patron of the arts. Not only did he build the Palace of Versailles, but he also had a passion for dance. So chances are he would be quite flattered to le…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:27PMTuesday, November 11, 2014
At the very same moment Evanston's Next Theatre announced it would be ceasing operation after 34 years, a newly established company, Windy City Playhouse, named the cast for its initial prod…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:45PMMonday, November 10, 2014
In his play "The Testament of Mary," Irish writer Colm Toibin imagines "the mother of Jesus” and left behind all the familiar images that for centuries have illustrated “the greatest sto…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:10PMEclipse Theatre, the company that devotes an entire season to the work of a single playwright, got off to a terrific start this year with its exploration of Lynn Nottage's plays, but the com…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:55PM 
