Monday, October 19, 2015
It 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…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:12PMSunday, October 18, 2015
With its gloriously full sail world premiere production of "Treasure Island," Lookingglass Theatre has headed out to sea again, riding with abandon on the formidable current generated by its…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:59PMMona Golabek, the concert pianist, writer and actress who enjoyed a hugely successful run of ...
The post Golabek returns with a “Willesden Lane” for young audiences appeared fir…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:07PMFriday, October 16, 2015
Very few works of international theater make it to Chicago these days. But the Chopin Theatre, located at 1543 W. Division, continually makes a valiant effort to fill the gap with examples o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:28PMIn the human nervous system, a synapse is a structure that permits a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron. The term came to mind Thursday as Hubb…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:47PMThursday, October 15, 2015
The Theatre School at DePaul University and its dean, John Culbert, have announced the three winners of the 2015 Awards for Excellence in the Arts, to be presented Nov. 9 at the school's gal…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:02PMAnyone who still believes that classical ballet is a 19th century art form trapped in amber is advised to take a look at the Joffrey Ballet. As Exhibit A: The altogether stunning production …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:07PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Here's the crucial problem with "Unspeakable," the fantasia inspired by the life of Richard Pryor that has taken up temporary residence at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place: While …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:41PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Choreographer John Neumeier is a passionate man of deep intellect and wide-ranging creativity. You need do nothing more than listen to him talk about "Sylvia," the contemporary reinvention o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:20PMDavid Rabe has long been acclaimed as the "playwright laureate" of the Vietnam War - a man who captured the profound psychological impact of that conflict in a trilogy that includes "Sticks …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:31PMFriday, October 9, 2015
"Ride the Cyclone" the eerie, tragicomic, dizzyingly talent-filled musical vaudeville - born in Canada, and now receiving its U.S. premiere on Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Upstairs stage - …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:09PMThursday, October 8, 2015
For her 2003 Jeff Award-winning set design for director David Cromer's Seanachai Theatre production of "Journey's End," Elizabeth Schuch created a World War I trench environment so real it m…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:39PMWhile it is not essential to know that playwright Scott McPherson died of the complications of AIDS at the age of just 33 before heading to the exceptionally winning revival of his play, "Ma…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:40PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Actor-writer-producer James Murray Jackson, Jr. discovered Richard Pryor for the first time when, as a kid, he caught the actor-comedian's hit movies from the early 1980s, "The Toy" and "Sti…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:00PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
The list of Jeff Award winners honoring excellence in Chicago's Equity contract theaters during the 2014-2015 season are notable for a number of reasons. Check out the list of recipients nam…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMMonday, October 5, 2015
There are two solidly dramatic moments in "The BlackWhite Love Play (The Story of Chaz & Roger Ebert)," Jackie Taylor's new show at the Black Ensemble Theater about the 24-year marriage…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:10AMSunday, October 4, 2015
At the heart of Willy Russell's heart-wrenching musical, "Blood Brothers" - a show that might well be described as a Greek tragedy of the British working class, and is receiving a superb pro…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:57PMFriday, October 2, 2015
The boxing ring is a very particular kind of stage, and when it is lifted onto the platform of a genuine theater it undergoes a fascinating transformation. Yes, the battle for physical domin…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:13PMThursday, October 1, 2015
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" is pure delicious fun - a superbly crafted musical that, in its sparkling inaugural national touring production, is being delivered with the greatest…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:28PMHe's cooking up a new show. Alton Brown - the Food Network star and author who has a taste for both culinary chemistry and performance - has created a new show for the live stage. Titled "Al…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:59AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
They are both widely known, and known primarily within their specific areas of activity. While most of them are based in the United States (including three in Chicago),they also hail from Gh…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00AMMonday, September 28, 2015
The Goodman Theatre certainly has not neglected female playwrights in recent decades. It has produced the work of Rebecca Gilman, Regina Taylor, Tanya Saracho, Mary Zimmerman and many others…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:59PMSunday, September 27, 2015
Watch as John Steinbeck’s decidedly tragic 20th century Biblical story, “East of Eden,” unspools on ...
The post REVIEW: ‘East of Eden’ a modern Biblical tale a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:59PMWritten by an Austrian (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), with an Italian libretto (by Lorenzo da Ponte) based on a French play (by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais), "The Marriage of Figaro" - now in a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:15PMFriday, September 25, 2015
"La Revolution Francaise," a musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil (of "Les Miserables" and Miss Saigon" fame), will receive a concert reading featuring its new English langua…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:34PMWednesday, September 23, 2015
“Gem of the Ocean,” now receiving a vividly acted revival at Court Theatre, was the ...
The post ‘Gem of the Ocean’ conjures a feverish Middle Passage appeared first …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:10PMAsk Jackie Taylor, the Black Ensemble Theater's founder, executive director and artistic "jackie" of all artistic trades, why she titled her newest show, "The BlackWhite Love Play: The Story…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:38PMJust when I thought it was all but impossible for another exceptional production to join the ranks of such early fall season productions as "Oklahoma" (at Paramount Theatre), "The Revel (at …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:26PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
Porchlight Music Theatre, whose excellent revival of the Broadway musical, "Side Show," is now playing at Stage 773, has announced plans to inaugurate a new musical revue series dubbed "New …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:57PMAyad Akhtar's "Disgraced," a play full of instant (and mostly equal opportunity) ethnic provocation, is custom-made for our time, as the lingering traumatic stress disorders of post-Septembe…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:10PMMonday, September 21, 2015
As with all cliches, there is more than a little truth to the notion that while comics make others laugh they are often crying inside. Consider Robin Williams, Richard Pryor and John Belushi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:14PM 
