It 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…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:05PMThese days John Logan is best known for his screenplays for the James Bond movies "Skyfall" and "Spectre," the television series "Penny Dreadful," and his 2010 Tony Award-winning play, "Red,…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:07PMCourt Theatre's stark but scorching new production of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" - the second in a trilogy of plays translated with clarity and poetry by Nicholas Rudall, directed with sinewy pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:58PMIn what might signal the real start of Anna D. Shapiro's rein as the new artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre, the company has announced that Polly Hubbard will become the theater's new …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:58PMIs playwright Thomas Bradshaw just plying us with sex-race-and status porn, and getting himself declared an important transgressive artist in the bargain? The post Thomas Bradshaw’s &#…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:37PMA big citywide celebration is planned in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. The post Major citywide plans to celebrate a Shakespeare anniversary appeared first on Chicago…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMComing to the Goodman Theatre: "War Paint," a new musical about cosmetic titan Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, with Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole starring. The post Coming to Go…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:01PMThe Goodman Theatre production of "Wonderful Town" has been rescheduled for Fall 2016. The post Goodman Theatre postpones ‘Wonderful Town’ until Fall 2016 appeared first on Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:08PMBy the time Robert Joffrey's production of "The Nutcracker" was ready for its world premiere in December, 1987, there was as much (if not more) drama going on behind the scenes as there was …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PMThe Goodman Theatre's Latino Theatre Celebration and its two related productions are taking shape. The post Goodman Theatre’s Latino Theatre Festival revving up appeared first on Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:11PMBroadway's Susan Stroman ("The Producers," Young Frankenstein") is directing and choreographing the Franz Lehar operetta "The Merry Widow" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago - a remount of the pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:44PMOkay; so take that and that and that Tracy Letts! You think you and Steppenwolf are going to have the last word on dysfunctional American family drama? Not so fast. Chicago playwright Brett …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:59PMDr. Harlan W. Haimes was the audience member every actor dreamed of having at a show. He didn't just love the theater; he understood what was involved in the art of performing and he admired…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:12PMSix major Chicago cultural institutions have been named the recipients of 2015 "IncentOvate" grants - competitive awards totaling $400,000 that are designed to underwrite the creation of ne…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:41PMNo doubt about it: Drury Lane Theatre's lavish production of "White Christmas," the classic Irving Berlin musical that is equal parts comedy, pathos, show business homage, patriotic hymn, ta…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:05PM"Four Women: Josephine, Eartha, Nina, and Tina," the special musical production created for the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival, was a one-night-only event, presented Nov. 2 at the Francis …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:38PMThere might be no more accurate clock in existence than the one powered by popular ... The post Hershey Felder portrays Irving Berlin, the voice of America appeared first on Chicago Entertai…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:06PMSick, sick, sick. And a musical drama that just might be the most intimate and chillingly prophetic anatomy of 20th century manifestations of human cruelty, suffering and experimentation. Al…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:39PMAs a professor of engineering tells us in "Spill," Leigh Fondakowski's altogether riveting oral history play about the monumental BP oil spill of 2010, there are two types of disaster. One …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:34PMMemory is an essential element of life - crucial to thought, and feeling, to learning and progress, to identity. But it also comes into play with particular power and meaning after someone w…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:48PMBeware: You might just fall in love with that elegant, somewhat self-satisfied white porcelain rabbit with the tall tapering ears, enigmatic face and fashion forward style who is catapulted …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:58PMThe Joffrey Ballet and the Joffrey Academy of Dance (the official school of the Joffrey ... The post Joffrey Ballet names three winners of its choreographic competition appeared first on Chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:02PM"Elf" will never be mistaken for one of the great entries in the American musical canon. But this holiday season show - based on the 2003 movie of the same name, and first produced on Broadw…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:13PMThis week, as part of a citywide project, pianist, actress and storyteller Mona Golabek is presenting a special young adult version of her acclaimed one-woman show, "The Pianist of Willesde…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:06PMBaby boomers and their parents will surely remember her - Hazel, the live-in maid who worked for a middle class family. She first arrived in 1943 in the form of a single-panel cartoon series…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:32AMThe most direct way to describe Philip Dawkins' beguiling new play, "Charm," now receiving its world premiere in a Northlight Theatre production staged in the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre is t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:01PMChicago’s Eclipse Theatre Company, the Midwest’s only theater company to focus on a single playwright each season, will feature the works of American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis for …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:42PMGeorge Orwell's classic novel, "1984," now in a stage adaptation designed for the Steppenwolf Young Adults program, remains a formidable catalyst for discussion. The post Steppenwolf for You…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:19PMThe Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has announced that "Sense and Sensibility," the award-winning new musical commissioned by the company from Tony Award-nominated composer/lyricist/adapte…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:13PMThere is much that should not be revealed about the plot essentials in Jordan Harrison's play, "Marjorie Prime," which debuted at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles last year and is about t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:12PMIt will be shaking, rattling and rolling for just 12 more weeks. Now in its eighth year, "Million Dollar Quartet" - the rollicking musical hit about the night in 1956 when rock 'n' roll lege…
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