Thursday, July 9, 2015
The Victory Gardens Theater on Wednesday announced the casting for its 2015 Ignition Festival of New Plays - including the return of actress Sandra Oh in a work by Julia Cho. Oh, best known …
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The Neo-Futurists have announced their 2015-16 season on the North Side, including a "clown rock opera" devised by Malic White and Molly Brennan, "Mike Mother" by Jessica Anne, and of course…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:59PMCasting has been announced for the 2015-16 theater season at Writers Theatre in Glencoe - a season initially announced in March that will be its first in the shiny new Studio Gang-designed s…
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If you dance in a big enough group, maybe nobody will notice your dancing. So how about dancing with the whole of Chicago? Chicago SummerDance, that summer-long series of weekend dance night…
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Here is an unlikely collaboration. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has partnered with Paul Stuart, a Manhattan-based purveyor of luxury clothes. This month, the Chicago store at 208 S. LaSalle S…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:20PMHere is an unlikely collaboration. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has partnered with Paul Stuart, a Manhattan-based purveyor of luxury clothes. This month, the Chicago store at 208 S. LaSalle S…
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Ashley Wheater, the artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet, will receive the Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal from the University of Chicago, the dance company announced Thursday.
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Black Ensemble Theater is best known and loved for its musical biographies of soul singers and R&B greats; now onstage is "Sounds So Sweet," a story set to the music of girl groups, from Des…
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Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks has announced its show and schedule for summer 2015. The title may not appear in the Bard's First Folio, but don't let that detract from its outdoor entertai…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:26PMChicago Shakespeare in the Parks has announced its show and schedule for summer 2015. The title may not appear in the Bard's First Folio, but don't let that detract from its outdoor entertai…
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Chicago Human Rhythm Project, that Chicago dance company known primarily for tap, is taking a big step in promoting all kinds of percussive dance this month with the Chicago Rhythm Fest's "S…
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Nick Offerman and Judd Apatow will both appear in an upcoming Chicago festival — that does not have "Laughs" or "Comedy" in its title. Instead, "Humanities." The two funnymen are spring pr…
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Stages, Sights & Sounds, the performance festival for the humanities-devotees-in-short-pants set, has announced its lineup for 2015. This spring's fest, put on May 7-20 at the Victory Garden…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:16AMStages, Sights & Sounds, the performance festival for the humanities-devotees-in-short-pants set, has announced its lineup for 2015. This spring's fest, put on May 7-20 at the Victory Garden…
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Valentine's Day, St. Valentine's Day, the Feast of St. Valentine —whether you embrace it or resist it, it is here this weekend. If you're in need of some entertainment for the occasion, re…
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Clockwise Theatre Company founder and artistic director Madelyn Sergel is stepping down from her post, the Waukegan theater announced Tuesday. She will be replaced by Bob Sanders, the direct…
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"Lookingglass Alice" has added another week of performances in the Water Tower Water Works. Adapted and directed by David Catlin from the Lewis Carroll story, the long-time hit for Lookinggl…
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"The Table," part of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, is open in previews and runs through Jan. 25 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier. The puppet work by Blind Sum…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AM"The Selfish Giant," part of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, opens Friday and runs through Feb. 22 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St. Several of th…
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It been running for 26 years but still takes place in a theater so authentic it can't afford vowels. Some of the curated events are by fringe theater veterans such as Greg Allen and Beau O'R…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:40PMIt been running for 26 years but still takes place in a theater so authentic it can't afford vowels. Some of the curated events are by fringe theater veterans such as Greg Allen and Beau O'R…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:40PMThe Paramount Theater in Aurora recently released photos from its new production of “Tommy,” the 1993 musical based on the rock opera by The Who – the one about the deaf, dumb and blin…
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"Airline Highway," the current play at Steppenwolf by Lisa D’Amour ("Detroit") and directed by Joe Mantello ("Wicked"), has added a few more performances in February. The play, about the w…
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This is our annual “Save the Seats” for New Year's Eve, which the Chicago Tribune offers up every year on the last Friday in December before the big night of the ball drop, the citywide …
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There are some dark moments, to be sure, in Conor McPherson's "The Night Alive" at the Steppenwolf Theatre. On Thursday night, Halsted Street delivered an extra one.
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 may seem like an odd thing to celebrate, but don't worry, Redmoon is sure to do it oddly. Saturday night is the big night for the Great Chicago Fire Festival �…
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Fans of falsehood, devotees of deceit, boosters of bull, er, baloney, this is your event. The "25th Annual Chicago's Biggest Liar Contest" is 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ravenswood United Church …
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It's not that the dead have stopped talking — it's that the show has reached its 10-year mark and its creator/solo performer/necromancer is ready to move on.
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Back for a second year, Chicago Theatre Week 2014 kicks off Tuesday and continues through Feb. 16 — presented by the League of Chicago Theatres in partnership with Choose Chicago. Abou…
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Welcome to the Tribune's annual "Save the Seats" edition for New Year’s Eve. This is the feature we run on the last December Friday before the big-night-ball-drop-calendar-flip-hoo-ha.…
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