Light 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…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:29PMThink of "Gotta Dance" as "A Chorus Line" reconfigured for the AARP set and freshly sealed with a "lite and lively" label. In fact, that is all you really need to know about this new musical…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:35AMSunday afternoon marked a poignant moment in the history of the Joffrey Ballet as the company "retired" its beloved version of Robert Joffrey's "The Nutcracker" on the stage of the Auditoriu…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:34AMThe tenor voice reaches to heaven, and the bass is rooted deep in the earth. So what about the baritone? That is the voice of mortal men - those caught up in the chaos and passion of "real l…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:23PMWhen "Men of Soul" rocked the stage of the Black Ensemble Theater (BET) this past season, the backup ladies in the cast made it clear they would be demanding equal time in the very near futu…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AMDance can be found in its purest, most unfettered glory on the concert stage. But that is not where it begins and ends. Here's a look at the best dance performances of 2015. The post The Yea…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AMIt was an exceptionally good year on Chicago stages. In fact, my initial list for the "10 best of 2015" contained a solid 60 shows - everything from world premiere plays to classic musicals…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:00PMTwo of Broadway’s most popular performers - Sutton Foster and Brian D’Arcy James - have been named recipients of this year's Actor of the Year Award to be presented by Chicago’s Sarah …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:14PMIf playwright Bruce Norris should ever decide to run for president (and as we all know, stranger things have happened), he would probably choose to be a churlish independent, running under t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:59PMEarly on in "My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra" - the easily charming, unpretentious revue now at Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre that celebrates the man also known as "Ol' Blue Eyes" -…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:16PM"The Heir Apparent," David Ives' "update" of a 17th century comedy by Jean-Francois Regnard (now at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater), is simply far too much about far too little. A cautionar…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:12PMActress Claire Danes has been named this year's guest of honor at Steppenwolf Theatre's annual Women in the Arts fundraising luncheon. The event will be held at noon on Feb. 4, 2016 at a loc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:58PMGriffin Theatre will present the Midwest premiere of John Van Druten's "London Wall," the rarely produced romantic drama about working women in 1930s London. It will be directed by Robin Wit…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:17PMMuntu Dance Theatre of Chicago is presenting its fall concert, “One Root, Many Branches,” with works that explore African influence on the culture of Jamaica, Brazil and the U.S. Perform…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:35PM"Bel Canto," Lyric Opera of Chicago's first main stage world premiere in more than a decade, was in rehearsal when terrorist attacks upended Paris last month, and it opened Monday night at t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:51PM"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them," wrote Vicki Baum, the woman whose book served as the inspiration for the movie and musical, "Grand Hotel." And that observati…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:31PM"Hamilton," the Broadway sensation, will open in Chicago in Sept. 2016. The post ‘Hamilton’ stage musical to open in Chicago next fall appeared first on Chicago Entertainment - …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:47AMWhen you've got a world premiere by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright you can be sure the casting will be A-list all the way. And so it turns out to be for the Steppenwolf Theatre's debut …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:01PMThat global musical hit, "The Lion King," remains a beauty - a miraculous flight of imagination and a masterpiece of artistic craft on every level. The post ‘The Lion King’ rema…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:39PMBy the age of 16, Brooklyn-born Carol Joan Klein - soon to adopt the professional name of Carole King - was already an accomplished classical pianist, had dated a guy named Neil Sedaka in hi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:09PM"Fool Me Twice, Deja Vu," Second City's first new mainstage revue since a serious fire engulfed much of the company's Wells Street home this past September, is both confounding and disappoin…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:49PMAfter 12 years as artistic director of Theatre at the Center, William Pullinsi is stepping down. Linda Fortunato will succeed him. The post William Pullinsi to step down at Theater at the Ce…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:01PMCall it the latest chilling example of art imitating life, and life imitating art. And then imagine the frayed nerves of the artists who, barely a day after the terrorist attacks in Paris, a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:08PM"A Christmas Story: The Musical" - now in an aptly high-spirited, warm-hearted, gently subversive production at Aurora's Paramount Theatre - is an intimate family story injected with great b…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:48PMA program note for "Sherlock" - the high-styled Canadian-bred show with a script by Greg Kramer that riffs on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - gets right to the point: "Late 19th cent…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:56AM"Not in a million years" did Abby Mueller ever think she'd star in "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical," the hit Broadway musical for which her sister, Jessie, won a Tony Award. Then she wa…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:00AMIt is not very often that a character on stage is so real, so bereft, and so lonely that you just want to jump out of your seat and give him a consoling hug. But Eddie, the central character…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:18PMThe winners of The Black Theater Alliance Awards (BTAA) for productions of the 2014-15 season were announced Monday, Nov. 16 at the Harold Washington Cultural Center. The Black Ensemble Thea…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:36PMShakespeare 400 Chicago, the yearlong international festival that will run throughout 2016, and is designed to commemorate the four hundred years since Shakespeare’s death in 1616, has ann…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:01PMSure, it's a utopian fantasy. But who wouldn't cheer for a man who has avoided paying taxes for decades, who ditched his deadening job in favor of happiness, and who has somehow managed to c…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:35PMIt is no accident that choreographer Gordon Peirce Schmidt has a fascination with gypsies. As he explains it, at least one of the reasons behind the creation of his latest full-length contem…
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