Gustav Mahler's "Third Symphony" clearly became an obsession for the Milwaukee-bred choreographer John Neumeier, who, for more than four decades, has served as artistic director of Germany's…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:53PMJust when you might be convinced that there is nothing more to be said or done with Shakespeare's mighty tragedy, "Othello" - whether as a play, a ballet, an opera or a film - along comes Br…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:47PMFirst things first: Each and every member of the Black Ensemble Theater revue, "Those Sensational Soulful '60s," not only lives up to the names and voices of the many fabled artists they cha…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 10:00PMSome musicals (the best kind in my judgment), make you lean in and embrace their characters, even if those characters are problematic people. Others are driven by proclamations, and the more…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:44PMEverything from Lin-Manuel Miranda to Stephen Sondheim to be part of Porchlight Music Theatre's 2016-17 season. The post Porchlight’s 2016-17 season full of musical surprises appeared …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:49PMThe first conclusion you might reach after watching Lyric Opera's production of "Romeo and Juliet" - the 1867 opera by Charles Gounod, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michael Carre base…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:54PMNow in its 5th season of self-producing an immensely successful Broadway musical series, Aurora's Paramount Theatre has announced the appointment of Chicago director Amber Mak - a fixture on…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:57PMMark your calendar for noon this Saturday (Feb. 20) at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. That's when the Chicago premiere of "My America Too (Taking Theater to the Streets"), an int…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:52PMCareening seamlessly between the goofily sublime and the utterly ridiculous, "Sister Act" is pure musical comedy "nunsense" - a show (like the 1992 film that inspired it) designed to supply …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:19PMScan the Chicago cultural landscape and you will notice that in many cases it is ... The post Chicago’s Lookingglass, A Red Orchid theater companies among 2016 MacArthur grant recipien…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:59AMThe Joffrey Ballet makes no small plans. And anyone who has caught its current "Bold Moves" program - running through Sunday at the Auditorium Theatre - will know that its sensational dancer…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:01AMThis month, in a fine confluence of events connected to Shakespeare 400 Chicago — the celebration ... The post A play and a ballet: Double exposure for Shakespeare’s ‘Othello&…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:00PMA man of easy elegance and self-possession, as well as impeccable discretion and discipline, Alonzo Fields served four United States presidents - Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:30PM"Madness is contagious." We hear this warning often throughout "2666," the monumental, labyrinthine, altogether hypnotic 5 1/2-hour magnum opus that has now arrived on the stage of the Good…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:29PMThree world premieres, two Midwest premieres and performances by Mike Nussbaum and Francis Guinan. That is the one-sentence summary of the 2016-2017 just announced by Skokie-based Northlight…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:27PMThe first thing you might want to do before seeing Annie Baker's 2014 Pultizer Prize-wining "The Flick," now in an ideally realized Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, is to re-set your…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:59PMThe clash of social classes has served as the high-octane fuel for countless British plays, from John Osborne's landmark 1956 work, "Look Back in Anger," to Laura Wade's scathing "Posh," fir…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 10:00AMThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the Broadway debut of "Cabaret," Kander and Ebb's genius of a musical about the end of the flamboyant era of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the N…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:05PMBlair Brown has joined the cast of the Steppenwolf Theatre world premiere of Tracy Letts' "Mary Page Marlowe." The post Blair Brown joining cast of Tracy Letts’ ‘Mary Page Marlow…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:10PM"Far From Heaven," the musical by Scott Frankel (music), Michael Korie (lyrics) and Richard Greenberg (book) - based on the 2002 film by Todd Haynes that starred Julianne Moore as Cathy Whit…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:31PMFirst, a toast to many things: To Queen Victoria, cigars and brandy, the arrested development ... The post The British Empire rules again in hilarious ‘Explorers Club’ appeared f…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:00PMThe fourth annual edition of Chicago Theatre Week - a program presented by the League of Chicago Theatres in partnership with Choose Chicago, that was designed to boost theater-going during …
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:35PM"The Ben Hecht Show," written and performed by James Sherman, will have its premiere here in a Grippo Stage Company production set to run June 10-July 17 at Evanston's Piven Theatre, 927 Noy…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:02PMWriters Theatre, which has called the leafy, upscale, North Shore town of Glencoe its home since its founding in 1992 by reigning artistic director Michael Halberstam, is about to open the d…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:53AMRarely has a new musical ("Broadway-bound" or otherwise) arrived on a local stage with the sort of superb, highly polished gloss that marks every aspect of "The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Hol…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:40PMHorton Foote, the Texas-born playwright who died in 2009, at the age of 92, was often called "the Chekhov of the American South." His melodrama-farce, "The Old Friends," now at Raven Theatre…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:32PMFor "Bold Moves," the Joffrey Ballet's winter program of three works, artistic director Ashley Wheater has tapped British choreographer Ashley Page to create a world premiere piece. Page's "…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:00PMChicago actor Jim Sherman was on stage playing the role of Gustav Stossel in the Mercury Theater production of "The Christmas Schooner" until just less than a month ago - the tenth time he h…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:00PMPlaywright Terrence McNally was already in middle age by the 1980s, when the AIDS crisis ... The post ‘Mothers and Sons’ a tale of the changes in gay life appeared first on Chica…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:25PMSomething unusual is at play from the moment the lights come up on "Measure for Measure" - the Russian language co-production of London's Cheek by Jowl and Moscow's Pushkin Theatre being pre…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:49PMHeidi Stillman has been chosen as Lookingglass Theatre's next artistic director. The post Shift in leadership at Lookingglass Theatre appeared first on Chicago Entertainment - Chicago Sun-Ti…
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