The Motown group known as The Temptations navigated a truly stunning repertoire of musical styles over a 62-year history.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMMarriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has hired internally for its top two management positions, the longstanding North Shore venue has announced.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:35PMHaving just won a Tony Award, Court Theatre delivers with a blisteringly entertaining new Ron OJ Parson production.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:35AMEarly in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, young Scout Finch starts telling us about the courtroom in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. She does so with the reverence of a chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:10PMIt’s worth noting that Chicago has four new musicals trying out this summer, all shooting toward Broadway.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMCourt Theatre becomes the first Chicago theater to win the award in more than a decade.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:55AMLloyd Suh’s play “The Chinese Lady,” now in its Chicago premiere, has a spectacular central performance from Mi Kang.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMNPR's weekly hour-long quiz program will resume live audience recordings this June, hosted by Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMIn Gracie Gardner’s two-character play, Athena is a 17-year-old who likes having a warrior moniker. Gardner has written a character study of two smart, self-reflective teenagers with the …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:27PMThese two interesting off-Loop shows are a reminder of the power of Chicago acting.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PMThe new Second City Artistic Advisory Board, announced Tuesday, also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Lynch and Tim Meadows. The theater currently has no artistic director.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMAnton Chekhov’s 1896 play is famous exploration of the pain and black comedy within a damaged, theatrical family, freshly adapted and directed at Steppenwolf by Yasen Peyankov,
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00PM“Rock of Ages” is what you might call a party show, giving the audience a fun jukebox musical full of Bon Jovi and Journey.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:50PMChristophe declared himself king of that Caribbean nation in 1811, and then set about building a kind of shadow version of a European monarchy.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMThis story about a young Black seamstress struggling to make her way in 1905 New York is as gentle as it is persistent, and remains my favorite of Lynn Nottage's plays.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:20PMI first saw “Spring Awakening,” the Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater musical about adults confining their children to sexual ignorance, more than 15 years ago.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMLove often begins at funerals, since those events put everything in context of mortality. We’re only her for a while, Helen realizes, so you might as well go after the lover who only looks…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:22PMDaniel Craig brings plenty of talent and star power to "Macbeth" on Broadway, but the production loses its way.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:00PMHe figured out long ago that he knows how to talk about love, a topic that many male comedians avoid.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMBilly Crystal has aged into his role as Buddy Young Jr. perfectly for the Broadway version of "Mr. Saturday Night."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMA deeply intimate story about a young man named Usher writing a Broadway musical, this is probably the most sexually explicit musical ever produced.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMIf the audience at the August Wilson Theatre could have carried Feldstein on its shoulders, it surely would have done so.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMWatch the von Trapp kids closely and you’ll see a lot of shared glances and frowns as the comings and goings of the adults cause whipsaw changes in the lives of these kids.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:32PMIt’s all a good, PG-13 laugh, a chance to shed one’s inhibitions while remaining in a somewhat dignified and safe environment.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:45AMNot since the emerald hues of “Wicked” has a show looked more glorious in Chicago’s Nederlander Theatre than “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00PMThe play offers up dextrous plotting, sardonic satire, subtle observations about the gray northern life and, above all, an unforgettable central character in Harry, a hangman who also loses …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:30PMFor those of us of a certain age, it’s hard to imagine Ntozake Shange first wrote the lines “Somebody, anybody, sing a black girl’s song” nearly half a century ago, and made it to Br…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PM“The Prom,” if you’ve never had the pleasure, deals with a cast of narcissistic Broadway types who try to "rescue" a gay high schooler in Indiana.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:22PMWhen Paula Vogel’s play opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to non-existent.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:50PMThe project will contain a museum, two performing spaces and is earmarked as a performance home for the Congo Square Theatre Company.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:05PMNew work dominates, although the season concludes with a new production of Harold Pinter’s absurdist classic “No Man’s Land."
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