Thursday, June 1, 2023
The show, now directed with his typical craft and creativity by Joe Mantello, first titillates its audience with loud, scary music and a theater that immediately plunges into darkness.
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The comedy operation, wherein an actor drinks copious qualities of alcohol for comedic purposes, is facing a unionization demand.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:27PMThe entire Goodman Theatre cast is going with the show, including Mary Beth Fisher as a widow dealing with grief and bereavement.
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Itamar Moses' new play at Theater Wit is an entry in the long-standing genre of playwrights writing about selling their souls for a Hollywood dime.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Here’s the appeal of “MotherFreakingHood!,” a better-than-you-probably-think show: It’s simple. It says, and sings, that you are not alone.
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Court has put up something with an expansive vision and a directorial approach that respects the material but gently improves upon it.
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Heidi Schreck’s deeply personal work explored how the U.S. Constitution had profoundly influenced the life of an American woman in her mid-40s.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMChicago playwright Joshua Allen has been quietly building something very interesting at Chicago’s growing Raven Theatre.
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The newly renovated Studebaker Theater on Michigan Avenue has snagged a high-profile Christmas show.
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Ernest Shackleton was an adventurer, polar explorer and a man who survived in the Antarctic by drifting on ice floes while eating penguins and dogs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:12PMTwo-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon is scheduled to return to his Chicago theater home in 2024.
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Actor Antonio Edwards Suarez attended a performance by Mikhail Baryshnikov, he tells us, and came to a realization.
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But this zesty new 2023 production, directed by James Vásquez, has an admirable crackle of the bat.
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The theater returns to large-scale producing on Navy Pier next season with a new work based on the 2005 concept album "Illinois."
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Either Lorraine Hansberry's genius 1964 play was ahead of its time, or we have slid backwards.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMIn the mid-1980s, Broadway tasked country artist Roger Miller with writing the music for a new adaptation of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel.
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Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for non-profit U.S. theater, is coming in June 2024.
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Deeply dedicated to honoring actual events and revealing human truths, “London Road” has so very much to offer.
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“The Porch on Windy Hill” should dial back the lecturing and sloganeering and focus on how music can heal and bring people together.
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Herein, you’ll find some of Sondheim’s greatest songs. I’m going through a bit of an empty-nest crisis, so “Stay With Me” has me at “Don’t you know what’s out there in the wo…
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This hugely enjoyable show is filled with talented kids and helmed by the big-hearted Nick Druzbanski in the role made famous by Jack Black.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMThe theater opened in 2015 and had a string of notable successes, including the long-running “Southern Gothic."
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The show based on the Martin Scorsese film has five lyricists and writers, and it feels like all of the writers got to do their own thing.
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When you have actors of the quality and appeal of Laura Linney (”Ozark,” of late) and Jessica Hecht (”Breaking Bad”), the two stars of David Auburn’s subtle “Summer, 1976,” an …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMWatching all the kids, many dressed as the Pink Ladies or 1950s rockers, filing into the theater was a fun sight.
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In 1958, the brilliant pianist and humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC’s “Tonight” show with Jack Paar.
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Jodie Comer, famous for her work on the British TV series “Killing Eve,” offers up a stunning performance.
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Larissa FastHorse's play, which opened Thursday night in New York by Second Stage, is a funny and cutting piece of work that suffers from its own moral earnestness.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PM"I had no desire to be involved with a jukebox musical, in terms of rehashing or redoing something."
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