WEISS: The reality TV takeoff also delves into backstage drama, a variety of musical styles and even contemporary politics.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:13PMSince its publication in 1900, L. Frank Baum’s novel, ‘The Wonderful of Wizard of Oz,” has been the source of countless iterations, from the magical 1939 MGM film, to the u…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:21AMThe play's author, Thomas R. Geoghagen, pairs the Founding Father with Edgar Allan Poe as a way to examine Jefferson's contradictions.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:07PMLet’s just say that three Chicago actors – Alex Weisman, Jessie Fisher and James Romney – will probably be taking very long leases on New York apartments soon. And why is t…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:44PMSteppenwolf says the actress, who appeared in Chicago and on Broadway in "August: Osage County," was "at the center of who this company is."
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 10:00AMThe pre-Civil War era melodrama by Dion Boucicault is receiving a smartly staged production by director Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:11PMThe plays will be presented at Shattered Globe's resident home at Theater Wit.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:25PMThe peerless songs of George and Ira Gershwin are paired with the sinuous direction and brilliantly varied choreography by Christopher Wheeldon.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:33PMThe lineup will also inaugurate the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, dubbed “Destinos."
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:54PMA family musical at heart, the show might just be the ideal tonic for any grownup in search of a brief, zany escape from news of the real world.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:41AMConsistently true to its title, "Luzia" is infused with dazzling effects of light, color, texture and water that evoke Mexico in the most poetic ways.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:18AMEarly on in “Something Rotten!,” the irreverent musical farce that imagines the birth of the Broadway musical as it might have happened during the Elizabethan era, a character su…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:26PMCompile a list of some of the most famous directors of Broadway musicals — Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune, Graciela Daniele, Kathleen…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:00AMWandachristine who masterfully brings her characters to life under the fluid, incisive direction of Ron OJ Parson.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:55PMRaven Theatre will begin a national search for a new artistic director immediately.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:48PMAs you enter Steep Theatre you instantly become part of designer Joe Schermoly's genteel living room set.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 10:07PMThe season will include the Midwest debut of David Rabe's "Cosmologies" and Stacy Amma Osei-Kuffour's "Hang Man."
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:27PM"Something Rotten!" is no serious meal of a musical. It's an elaborate dessert that might have been cooked up by a popular chain.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:28PMHas time been kind to "God of Isaac"? The answer requires a bit of a Talmudic approach.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:05PMAs the show's title suggests — Luzia fuses the sound of “luz” ("light" in Spanish) and “lluvia” ("rain").
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:00PMTaylor Mac's play receives one of those take-no-prisoners, anything goes Steppenwolf productions.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:03AMThe one-man show features co-author Erik Jensen in a bravura turn as the dissipated but fervent Lester Bangs.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:39PMDouglas Carter Beane's poignant yet high-spirited play-with-music is now receiving a terrific Chicago premiere by Pride Films & Plays.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:49PMIt is worth heading to the Drury Lane Theatre production of D.L. Coburn’s two-character play, “The Gin Game,” simply to watch the countless variations actor John Reeger can…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:40PMFrancesca Johnson, the Italian war bride who has been married to an Iowa farmer for 18 years, could easily have locked the door when Robert Kincaid, an interesting stranger who just happens …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:03PMThe superbly cast revival brings the family comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" to life with all the pathos, heart and sheer old-fashioned goofiness it demands.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:32PMDirector hasn't found a fully cohesive style for the production that might balance its Old World operetta style with contemporary pacing.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:48PMWhile this touring edition of the 2015 Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater revival is not perfect, it looks beautiful in the Oriental Theatre.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:14PMClaire Kiechel's "Pilgrims" is now being staged in a beautifully realized world premiere at The Gift Theatre.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:16PMDirector John Doyle’s acclaimed Broadway revival of “The Color Purple,” the musical based on Alice Walker’s novel about four decades in the life of an African-America…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:04AMAn excerpt from the musical will part of Broadway in Chicago's annual free preview concert at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
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