Monday, 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 04:14PMSunday, September 20, 2015
Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" opened on Broadway in 1943, as World War II was raging in Europe and the Pacific. And if you watch this game-changing musical with that historical contex…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:18PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Although improvisational comedy, one of Chicago's most formidable gifts to the entertainment world, had its genesis in the Hyde Park neighborhood, it is now rooted almost entirely on the cit…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:45PMThe mischievous sleight-of-hand unfolds even before the audience has settled into darkness for the formal start of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's altogether beguiling, ingeniously imagined pr…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:37PMThursday, September 17, 2015
There has been a change in the schedule for Hershey Felder's season-long series of productions slated for the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted.
The post Hershey Felder’s one-man s…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:06PMIt has become one of the most thrilling rites of the Indian summer season: The ...
The post Joffrey Ballet’s “Millennials” drives audience to its feet appeared first on Chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:39PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Signal Theatre Ensemble, an accomplished Chicago storefront, will cease operation next year, after presenting two ambitious final productions.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:34PMNow, at a time when one of the more popular mottos on Broadway is "let your freak flag fly," the outcasts of society have not only become the main attractions, but the heroes and heroines. A…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:53PMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Sick, sick, sick. And definitely not for the meek. But the Mary-Arrchie Theatre production of ...
The post The obscenity of the quest for power at the core of “Guardians” appeare…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:15PMMembers of the cast of "Gotta Dance," the new musical set for a pre-Broadway tryout at Chicago's Bank of America this winter, gathered on the stage of the Broadway Playhouse on Tuesday after…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:29PMMonday, September 14, 2015
Chicago audiences have forged a special bond with Greek tragedy in recent seasons, especially when the chaos and fervor of those ancient foundational plays comes with a modern twist. The lat…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:29PMThe Second City has announced dates for post-fire resumption of programming.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:31PMSaturday, September 12, 2015
In many ways, "Dogfight" - the intimate musical being presented by BoHo Theatre - is a classic story of naive young men heading off to war. Full of macho bravura, but increasingly terrified …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:30PMFriday, September 11, 2015
Broadway In Chicago has announced full casting for the Chicago premiere of "Unspeakable," a dramatic fantasia inspired by the life of comedic legend Richard Pryor. The show, to be presented …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:29AMThursday, September 10, 2015
The Joffrey Ballet is offering a special $20 ticket deal for “Millennials,” its program of ...
The post Joffrey seeks young audience for “Millennials” with special $2…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:05PMCatherine Trieschmann's play, "How the World Began," now receiving a topnotch Chicago premiere by the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, arrives at a most interesting moment - a time when the argum…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:53PMWhen there's a will there's a way. Of course for proof of this adage you need look no further than the hundreds of thousands of fiercely determined migrants now trying to make their way to E…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:55PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
The Goodman Theatre has announced the lineup for its 2015 New Stages Festival which will run Oct. 28 - Nov. 15, and feature new works by Rebecca Gilman, Jordan Harrison, Dael Orlandersmith, …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:48PMDirectors David H. Bell, Carl Menninger and Ron OJ Parson will helm the three productions ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:20PMGenerational labels can distort reality, especially in any discussion of the arts, for artists, in addition to forging the new, famously draw on history, even as they sometimes deconstruct i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:00PMChicago's Fall 2015 dance card is full of audacious programming, with opportunities to see great performances extending well beyond the usual concert venues of the Auditorium and Harris Thea…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
Think of them as the contemporary Chicago version of Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne, that ...
The post Jeff Awards to celebrate careers of Paula Scrofano and John Reeger appeared first on Ch…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:02PMThe label "rock opera" has been appended to many shows in recent decades, but not until now, as The Hypocrites power their way into the amped up soul of "American Idiot," Green Day's punk ro…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:24PMChristopher Gattelli to choreograph new "SpongeBob Musical" set for a Chicago tryout.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:59AMThe Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has announced its five-show 2016 season with a sixth special "riskier" choice to kick things off in January.
The post Marriott Theatre names musicals for…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:07AMWith about 200 companies now in operation in this city, no list of 10 shows can possibly suggest the range of work headed to stages here in the next few months. So what follows is only a sm…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AMSunday, September 6, 2015
Think of N. Richard Nash's 1954 hit Broadway play "The Rainmaker" (which was quickly turned into the musical "110 in the Shade") as a companion piece to "The Music Man," and you won't be far…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:55PMFriday, September 4, 2015
I have a huge conundrum when it comes to “Peter and the Starcatcher,” the play ...
The post “Peter and the Starcatcher” has its heart in the right place, but goes on…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:30PMTuesday, September 1, 2015
It could have been a whole lot worse. There were no casualties. But less than a week after a three-alarm fire that began in the Adobe Grill restaurant - and resulted in the destruction of pa…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:15PMMonday, August 31, 2015
Back in 1987 I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and author who died Sunday at the age of 82. Here, in remembrance, is a reprint of my story in which he dis…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:20PMYes, it's true. SpongeBob, the high energy, high-spirited sea sponge who lives in a sea pineapple, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a pet snail, Gary, who meows like a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:59PM 
