Thursday, September 22, 2022
Remarkable things happen in the cramped basement of the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park. What a thrilling Chicago-style musical!
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Lindsay Joelle’s two-person show “The Garbologists” is courageous enough to probe the intersection of race and class.
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The hit Goodman Theatre production of “Good Night, Oscar” is headed to Broadway in the spring.
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Director Barrie Kosky’s breathtaking production brings this title newly to life without ever straying far from why it's such a favorite in the first place.
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The always remarkable Heidi Kettenring imagines a character whose sociability clearly is something of a cover for a widow’s loneliness.
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Best remembered now as the movie starring Cary Grant, “Arsenic and Old Lace” was a Broadway hit in the '40s. But in 2022, it’s a rarity.
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If you’re a fan of "Dreamgirls," a schlep to Aurora is very much worth the effort to see the new production at the Paramount Theatre.
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“I’m a big fan of the institution. I want to continue scaling the business and see how we can honor the brand.”
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The Steppenwolf season opener begins with historical truth that George Washington’s 1799 will and testament emancipated their estate after the death of his wife.
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Saturday, September 10, 2022
Friday, September 9, 2022
This is, overall, a very ambitious production from director Jessica Fisch, attempting far more than your usual suburban thriller.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:16PMWe do not do as well when we sit alone. We need peers, togetherness and new ideas. And that’s exactly what the performing arts in Chicago have to offer.
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Rob Zabrecky brings a distinctive brand and a love of pushing things right to the edge and then maybe a little further.
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What looks promising on Chicago stages this fall? We pick 10 shows with local artists, put on by Chicago theaters.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMIt sure reads to me like the playwright is using Chagall as a vessel here to argue that theaters should beat back demands for ideological purity.
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Second City’s e.t.c. Stage was founded as a place to take risks and the current revue thrives best when it takes that mission to heart.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022
Nominations are in for this year's theater awards for Chicago's largest theaters, with an especially competitive new play category.
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If you don’t know this beautiful memoir musical, it's based on a graphic novel by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, growing up in the 1970s in a small Pennsylvania town.
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With a savvy sense of the moment, TimeLine has a salacious comedy about the blistering 1934 fight for California's governorship between Republican Frank Merriam and author Upton Sinclair.
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As heavenly as the return to strength of Canada’s Stratford Festival feels, hell is very much a thing in the Ontario farmland this year.
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The reason Lauren Weisberger’s memoir became famous was not just because of the juicy movie with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It’s because Weisberger could see that the thirst for po…
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Salazar died at her Chicago home Aug. 3. She is remembered as “an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime, super arts activist.”
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The names aren’t included here and don’t matter a jot for the point I am making. Chicago theater needs to be a community again.
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There’s too much talent at the Mercury Theater to make everyone sing to a canned backing track in "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."
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This production, choreographed by Drew McOnie, really should get its shot on Broadway, especially given what Aaron LaVigne is doing.
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Susan Booth is to take the artistic helm at the Goodman Theatre, replacing Robert Falls, who is stepping down after 35 years.
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"The Kite Runner" on Broadway is based on the beloved book, but the story doesn't work as well on the stage as it does on the page.
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The movie comes from the early aughts, when the world was a different place. “A lot has changed," Elton John says. The musical "Devil Wears Prada" opens first in Chicago, with Broadway nex…
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