Heidi 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…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:56PMThere are a few crucial things you should know about Neil LaBute's paired programs of 11 one acts, which are organized under the separate titles, "Virtues" and "Vices," and are now receiving…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 07:20PMDriving home from the Goodman Theatre on Monday night - where "Another Word for Beauty," Jose Rivera's play about life in a high security women's prison in Bogota, Colombia received its worl…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:34PMAmerican Blues Theater, the company whose recent memorable productions have included "Side Man," "Hank Williams: Lonesome Highway" and "The Rainmaker," has announced its 2016-2017 season. Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:40PMBroadway musicals can be intriguing barometers of where mainstream audiences happened to be at any particular point in history. This was driven home after watching the exuberant Paramount Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:52PMHow do you inject genuine fun, fizz and frenzy into "Bye Bye Birdie," the musical that arrived on Broadway in 1960, served as an homage to the 1950s, and now, in so many ways, might easily f…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:18PMThe legacy of the Black Power movement of the 1960s is still open to fierce debate. But what is often neglected in all the talk is any consideration of the fallout that period had on the chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:30PMA Red Orchid Theater's production of Tennessee Williams' "The Mutilated" is a sort of act of salvation for the playwright. And watching it you cannot help but think that Williams is looking …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:37PMTwo very different events — but both with decidedly East-West connections — are headed to Chicago stages ... The post Global excursions: ‘My Lai’ at the Harris Theater, and…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PMConsider these statistics: During the course of his life William Shakespeare is believed to have ... The post Shakespeare 400 Chicago to feature 850 events appeared first on Chicago Entertai…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:05PMAs Robert Frost famously wrote: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." But to judge by Dan LeFranc's dreadful new play, "Bruise Easy," now receiving …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:07PMThe law office that serves as the backdrop for "London Wall" - the beguiling vintage classic by John Van Druten that has been revived with period-perfect flair for its Griffin Theatre produc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:41PMWatching "Satchmo at the Waldorf," Terry Teachout's fascinating one-man (three character) fantasia about Louis Armstrong - now in its Midwest permiere at Court Theatre, where Barry Shabaka H…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:11PMWith its ravishing singing and orchestral accompaniment, its vivid acting, and its stark, stunningly modern design, the Marriott Theatre production of "Spring Awakening" is transfixing on ev…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:05PMOne thing is clear: Lyric Opera of Chicago has made no small plans for its 2016-2017 season. The post Lyric Opera’s 2016-17 season to range from new ‘Ring Cycle’ to ‘…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:14PMPop quiz: Where will you find some of the most honest, moving, skillful acting on any Chicago stage at the moment? Answer: You might be surprised to hear this, but it is at Raven Theatre, wh…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:37PMCall it the tale of two solo theater projects that started out as one but, as these things often do, resulted in a parting of ways. The post The tale of counterpointed solo theater projects …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:47PMYes, it is set in a women's prison where at least some of the inmates have committed drug-related crimes. But no, "Another Word for Beauty," Jose Rivera's world premiere play-with-music at t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:00PMFor most parents, the death of a child is the most devastating occurrence imaginable. So what playwright William Donnelly suggests in "No Wake," now in its Midwest premiere by Route 66 Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:31PMThis year marks the 35th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program - more familiarly known as "the genius grants." And the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation plans to celebrate…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:01AMIn addition to the musicals produced as part of its standard season, Porchlight Music Theatre presents shows under the umbrella title "Porchlight Revisits," which features three-night-only c…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:16PMThodos Dance Chicago's world premiere work, "Sono's Journey," was a great moment in living dance history, fabled ballerina Sono Osato, frail but still elegant at the age of 96, made the trip…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:39PMDirector Robin Witt has a special gift for bringing vivid, pulsating life to lesser-known British plays from the mid 20th century, including "Men Should Weep" and "Flare Path." Now she is st…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:28PMBartlett Sher, the director whose recent Broadway productions have included acclaimed revivals of both “A ... The post Broadway’s Bartlett Sher to direct Lyric’s “Rom…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:43AMJennifer Bielstein, who forged her career as a theater administrator in Chicago, and has served as the managing director of Actors Theatre of Louisville since 2006, has been named the new ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:27PMThe Young Playwrights Festival - which encourages Chicago high school students to pen plays, and ultimately selects three of them for a professional production - is the most enduring element…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:56PMAt the very same time the world premiere of David Rabe's "Good for Otto" continues its hugely successful extended run at The Gift Theatre through Feb. 7, the company has gathered a winningly…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:29PMGroup tickets for "Hamilton" in Chicago go on sale Jan. 5. The post Group sales about to begin for “Hamilton” in Chicago appeared first on Chicago Entertainment - Chicago Sun-Tim…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:05PMThe North American touring production of Disney’s "The Lion King," directed by Julie Taymor, has broken the record for highest-grossing week in Chicago theatrical history. The post “…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:56PMChicago artists never rest, whether in the dead of Winter or at the first signs of Spring. Nor do their audiences. Here (in chronological order) is a dramatically abridged look at 16 excitin…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:38PMLight Opera Works' production of "Guys and Dolls," the Frank Loesser musical that easily ranks among the very best musicals of the "Golden Age" of Broadway, has just three performances remai…
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