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The intimate but grand-scale production of the show is infused with fierce, precision-tooled, altogether transformative direction by Michael Weber.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:53PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
George Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments" and Jerome Robbins' "Glass Pieces" are among the pieces slated for the program.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:00AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Two more wildly different personalities than Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev could not have been put in a room together.
SOURCE: 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, …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:59AMMonday, January 29, 2018
In 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.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:00PMFriday, January 26, 2018
Director Alan Souza and musical director Alan Bukowiecki have crafted an ingenious take on the musical.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:28PMThe one-man show that draws on more than 40 poems by Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:00AMThursday, January 25, 2018
The funding will help support three major areas of expansion and improvement, including a new Paramount School of Performing Arts.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:00PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
You 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…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:34PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
The show, directed by Erik Wagner, with music direction by Linda Madonia and choreography by Jessica Texidor, will run at Theater Wit this summer.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:02PMSunday, January 21, 2018
Arthur 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…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:01PMFriday, January 19, 2018
The show, which most often is produced on vast Broadway and opera house stages, will also have a formidable cast.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:48PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
The 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:20PMThe Hansberry documentary deals extensively with the playwright's political engagement, among other topics.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:00PMSunday, January 14, 2018
WEISS: 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.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:26PMThursday, January 11, 2018
In "Flamingo & Decatur," a most winning tragicomedy of Vegas manners, homes in on generally unexamined aspects of the fabled city.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:13PMWednesday, January 10, 2018
From its inception, August Wilson, who died in 2005, was a fervent supporter of Congo Square. This production of "Jitney" does him proud.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:13PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
The show is deeply rooted in Regan's family home located on a lake outside of Mankato, Minnesota.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:00AMArtistic director Carlos Kalmar brings rarely heard treasures as well as familiar classics to Millennium Park starting in June.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:00AMSunday, January 7, 2018
WEISS: The gently campy musical burlesque seems custom-made for Black Button Productions and its affinity for the surreal.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:32PMThursday, January 4, 2018
Fink arrives in Chicago after serving as managing director of Theatre Bay Area.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:01PMSaturday, December 30, 2017
Albert, who in November announced he would be leaving his position at Court as of Fall 2018, had been quietly fighting cancer for several years.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:34PMWednesday, December 27, 2017
Both the level of choreography and the dancing in the many theaters now producing musicals in this city witnessed exponential growth.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:00PMA slew of incisive and imaginative productions ignited Chicago's theater scene in 2017.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:00AMMonday, December 11, 2017
WEISS: Dion Johnstone makes a remarkable transition from young and self-confident to old and bitter in handsome Chicago Shakespeare Theater staging.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:13PMSunday, December 10, 2017
WEISS: While touring production of the Oz musical stays true to the original staging, the meaning of its story seems to have evolved in emphasis.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:32PMThursday, December 7, 2017
There is far more to this show than biography.There is the vibrant sense of a musical era in the making.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:30PM 
