The intimate but grand-scale production of the show is infused with fierce, precision-tooled, altogether transformative direction by Michael Weber.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 12:53PMGeorge Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments" and Jerome Robbins' "Glass Pieces" are among the pieces slated for the program.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 09:00AMTwo more wildly different personalities than Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev could not have been put in a room together.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 04:53PMAudra McDonald did it. So did Chita Rivera. And soon it will be Patti LuPone’s turn as the latest Broadway diva to arrive onstage at Steppenwolf Theatre as part of its LookOut series, …
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 11:59AMIn its quirky way the story confirms the two abiding points of view that now hold sway more than a half century after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 08:00PMThe cause of death is awaiting results of an autopsy.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 03:27PMDirector Alan Souza and musical director Alan Bukowiecki have crafted an ingenious take on the musical.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 03:28PMThe one-man show that draws on more than 40 poems by Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 08:00AMThe funding will help support three major areas of expansion and improvement, including a new Paramount School of Performing Arts.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 04:00PMYou probably know him best as “Dwight Schrute,” the role he has played for nine seasons on NBC’s “The Office,” or perhaps you recall his previous television for…
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 12:34PMThe show, directed by Erik Wagner, with music direction by Linda Madonia and choreography by Jessica Texidor, will run at Theater Wit this summer.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 03:02PMArthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” now in a blistering revival at Court Theatre, arrived on Broadway in 1947 — a moment in this country’s history often viewed as the ap…
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 05:01PMThe show, which most often is produced on vast Broadway and opera house stages, will also have a formidable cast.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 04:55PMAn ironic, knowing laugh rippled through the audience Thursday night as the immensely engaging musical “Yank! A WW II Love Story,” received its Chicago premiere by Pride Films an…
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 03:48PMThe work of four female playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel, as well as Anna Jordan and Laura Eason, will comprise Raven Theatre’s 2018-2019 seas…
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 07:25PMThe result is an emotionally rich look at dreams pursued, dreams denied, and the struggle to forge a life of value (and values) in America.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 07:20PMThe Hansberry documentary deals extensively with the playwright's political engagement, among other topics.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 05:00PMWEISS: Each of the characters in William Francis Hoffman's play is in desperate need of help, but it's a newborn baby you may want to rescue.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 03:26PMIn "Flamingo & Decatur," a most winning tragicomedy of Vegas manners, homes in on generally unexamined aspects of the fabled city.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 06:13PMFrom its inception, August Wilson, who died in 2005, was a fervent supporter of Congo Square. This production of "Jitney" does him proud.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 06:13PMThe show is deeply rooted in Regan's family home located on a lake outside of Mankato, Minnesota.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 04:49PMPegasus Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival has been in operation for 31 years, along the way capturing the shifting zeitgeist of adolescent life. Under the program, professional thea…
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 08:00AMArtistic director Carlos Kalmar brings rarely heard treasures as well as familiar classics to Millennium Park starting in June.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 01:00AMWEISS: The gently campy musical burlesque seems custom-made for Black Button Productions and its affinity for the surreal.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 07:32PMFink arrives in Chicago after serving as managing director of Theatre Bay Area.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 02:01PMAlbert, who in November announced he would be leaving his position at Court as of Fall 2018, had been quietly fighting cancer for several years.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 09:34PMBoth the level of choreography and the dancing in the many theaters now producing musicals in this city witnessed exponential growth.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 06:00PMA slew of incisive and imaginative productions ignited Chicago's theater scene in 2017.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 09:00AMWEISS: Dion Johnstone makes a remarkable transition from young and self-confident to old and bitter in handsome Chicago Shakespeare Theater staging.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 03:13PMWEISS: While touring production of the Oz musical stays true to the original staging, the meaning of its story seems to have evolved in emphasis.
Linked From chicago.suntimes.com at 05:32PMThere is far more to this show than biography.There is the vibrant sense of a musical era in the making.
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