Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
In the grim drama “Flood," Mashuq Mushtaq Deen has written an environmentalist allegory with absurdist underpinnings.
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Aurora’s ever-growing Paramount Theatre has been granted the rights this fall to what’s likely to be a hot-selling musical.
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Brian D’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara play the on-the-rocks couple in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s potent musical.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMThree different singers play the welterweight boxer Emile Griffith in Lyric Opera’s visceral production of Terence Blanchard’s 2013 jazz opera.
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“I think it says something about our times,” she says about the play, “and the loneliness we all feel.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMHe plans to stage his prior Chicago hit “I’m Not a Comedian ... I’m Lenny Bruce,” as directed by Joe Mantegna, and a new production of “Bill W. and Dr. Bob."
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Roche Schulfer, 72, plans to retire from his job as the Chicago theater's executive director, effective Aug. 31.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMPeck is best known as a dance choreographer but he wants "Illinoise," opening soon on Navy Pier, to be a theater piece. There is a narrative.
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“Cinderella” is a barnstormer of a title, but there is no fairy godmother or glass slipper in this emotionally potent “La Cenerentola.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:30PMThe theater will produce its 2024 season in the venue at the western end of Chicago’s North Center neighborhood.
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As the wife, Max decides to repair herself to her husband’s Southern Baptist seminary. “Why is this woman here?” you keep wondering.
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
The winter theater season is upon us. We have 10 Chicago-area shows opening between now and the end of March that look especially interesting.
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The play is set partly in 2016 as the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen makes unnerving political inroads and partly in 1946, when many Jewish families had been obliterated.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMThey say they will begin picketing theaters Jan. 16 and will ask audiences not to cross the picket lines.
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Here, in order of preference, are my top picks from New York's Great White Way on the first full year since the pandemic.
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They were the leads of big musicals ("Boop," "Tommy") or stars in other ways. Including an unprecedented top-10 double appearance.
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“He was the godfather of the working Chicago actor,” said Barbara Gaines, former artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
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Across the country during the pandemic, nonprofit theaters lost their audiences and were forced to cut staff. Not at the Goodman Theatre.
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Paulson is on fire all night long, torching not just anyone sharing Second Stage with her — including Elle Fanning — but half of the open-mouthed audience.
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This was an especially fine year for musicals but over the last 12 months, I’ve also admired everything from revivals to daring new plays.
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Now staged in its new theater on Lincoln Avenue, this holiday show based on the Jimmy Stewart movie has gathered an audience that would follow it anywhere.
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Mysteries and thrillers like this one are having a sudden, surprising renaissance in Chicago theater.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMSome eight years after its London bow, the “Harry Potter” stage play is coming to Chicago next September, and sticking around.
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This new musical focuses on a group of real, young, neurologically atypical persons in Columbus, Ohio, all preparing together for their prom.
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I admire the way director Danny Kapinos’ production is willing to trust the audience with this 1960s musical.
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The relatively unknown Jasmine Amy Rogers turns in an astonishing performance at the heart of “Boop! the Musical” in its pre-Broadway opening, directed by Jerry Mitchell.
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Everything this longtime British magician does on stage is rooted in personal storytelling — there's an uncommon warmth and openness amid all the illusions and deception.
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This is a contemporary folk tale inspired by the music and sounds of Scotland, earlier seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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