Monday, November 10, 2014
Eclipse 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 03:55PMEvanston's Next Theatre, an early launching pad for such talents as playwright-actor Tracy Letts, actor Michael Shannon, and directors David Cromer and Dexter Bullard, has announced that it …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:10PMAnyone who has ever seen the Joffrey Ballet’s Fabrice Calmels on stage (or on the ...
The post Joffrey Ballet’s Fabrice Calmels enters Guinness Book of Records appeared first on …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:11PMSunday, November 9, 2014
It is a good bet you will find no unit in any branch of the United States military that is any tougher, more disciplined, more cohesive or more concerned with protecting a fellow troop’s b…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:30PMFriday, November 7, 2014
The subtitle of "The Anyway Cabaret" — TUTA's quirky, shrewdly playful world premiere musical frolic at The Storefront Theatre — is full of animal characters, but like all fables, it is …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:39PMA utopian kingdom where peace and justice are the crucial goals? Or a place where ...
The post ‘Camelot’ reimagined in lively and timely Drury Lane production appeared first on C…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:23PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
The three wives have been chosen. The incensed and insulted ladies of “First Wives Club,” ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:29AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
The Chicago Humanities Festival presented "A Night at the Tonys" Monday, and the sold-out, one-night-only, grand-scale musical theater revue was a grand chronicle of the Tony-winning musica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:49PMSinger-songwriter Susan Werner, who will make a return visit to the Auditorium Theatre Nov. 8 as part of its popular cabaret series, "On Stage With...," talks about her album "Hayseed," her…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:06PMFans of the Bard can now stream the productions of Shakespeare's Globe, as the London theater makes available 50 productions that can be streamed online for the first time through a video-on…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:39PMMonday, November 3, 2014
The New Colony theater company is soon to make The Den Theatre, at 1333 N. Milwaukee in the Wicker Park neighborhood, its permanent home.
The post The New Colony theater to settle into perma…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:00PMChicago audiences who have followed the trajectory of African-American theater in this city will recall that two decades ago a company called the Onyx Theatre Ensemble became the talk of the…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:27PMFlamenco is often referred to as the Spanish equivalent of the blues — passionate, earthy and frequently laced with pain. So it makes perfect sense that this classic form is now being used…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:48PMThe Joffrey Ballet received a Spirit of Innovation Award at the 13th annual Chicago Innovation Awards and was celebrated for being "a company of firsts."
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:48PMDrury Lane Oakbrook's 2015-2016 season will include the regional premieres of "Billy Elliot" and "Peter and the Starcatcher," plus "White Christmas," "Bye, Bye Birdie" and, possibly, a new m…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:59AMFriday, October 31, 2014
As previously announced, TimeLine Theatre, the widely lauded company whose home is now in ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:47PMThursday, October 30, 2014
The musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein are such an intrinsic part of our DNA that it is all too easy to take them for granted. So it is especially thrilling to be shaken to the core by a pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:10PMNo, it's not "Amadeus." It's "Mozart, l'opéra rock" ("Mozart, the rock opera"), the English version of a French musical that uses both pop-rock compositions and Mozart's own music. And ther…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:46PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Giordano Dance Chicago's two-night engagement at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance this past weekend came and went all too quickly, but attention should be paid to the company's excitin…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:52PMIf ever there were a time to cast your vote for Chicago as the theater capital of grand-scale musicals performed on intimate stages, this is it. As part of the evidence on offer consider Bo…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:15PMSunday, December 2, 2012
When Ernest Hemingway wrote about “a clean, well-lighted place,” he didn’t exactly have a window in Chicago’s Loop in mind. But beginning Tuesday and continuing through Dec. 22, a gr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:22PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Emmy-winning television and film actress Holland Taylor starring in Chicago in "Ann" at the Bank of America Theatre.
SOURCE: posttrib.suntimes.com at 04:47PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
I did not see the “original” version of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the new Broadway musical and cultural dartboard many critics attended (and trashed) this past March after mul…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:34PMWednesday, November 10, 2010
One excellent way to pay homage to this country’s soldiers on Veteran’s Day is to catch the single reprise performance of Griffin Theatre’s immensely moving show, “Letters Home,” t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:00AM 
