Monday, August 31, 2015
Yes, 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 12:59PMFriday, August 28, 2015
First things first. It is time to declare actor Mike Nussbaum the Eight Wonder of the World. Watch the 91-year-old actor as he moves through TimeLine Theatre's gripping revival of "The Price…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:41PMThursday, August 27, 2015
"October Sky," the world premiere musical that rocketed straight into the hearts of Wednesday's opening night audience at the Marriott Theatre, tells a story that is familiar in many ways. L…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:18PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
The Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., a long-lived, emblematic Off Loop company that thrived on a spirit of experimentation, provocation and the hippie ethos of its longtime artistic director, Richa…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:01PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
She is, without question, a piece of work - the kind of woman who should wear a "Danger" sign around her neck. And in moving her from Victorian era Sweden (where she was born in August Strin…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:05PMTimeline Theatre, newly teamed with top bidder Svigos Development, named top choice for redevelopment of Andersonville area's Trumbull School.
The post TimeLine Theater closes in on new home…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:35AMMonday, August 24, 2015
Pegasus Theatre Chicago has announced that it will open its 2015 – 2016 season with ...
The post Premiere by Nambi E. Kelley to open Pegasus Theatre’s 2015-2016 season appeared f…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:51PMChicago Dramatists has officially named Meghan Beals as its new artistic director. Beals had been ...
The post Chicago Dramatists names its new artistic director appeared first on Chicago En…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:58PMHaven't been able to make it to London to see that guy named Benedict Cumberbatch play Hamlet? Or to Broadway to see Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Audience"? Despair not. This F…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:03PMFriday, August 21, 2015
Scan the list of the season's just announced Jeff Awards Equity nominations - honoring excellence in productions that opened between Aug. 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015 - and there can be only on…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:59AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Sex, race, social class, political activism, the changing roles of women and the issue of abortion. This might sound like a bucket list of contemporary themes. But in "Dirty Dancing - The Cl…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:53PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Thodos Dance Chicago has enjoyed formidable local and national success with two recent full-length “dance ...
The post Thodos Dance’s next “story ballet” full of Chic…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:07PMYears before the U.S. put a man on the moon for the first time, and ...
The post Engineering ‘October Sky,’ a rocket-propelled new musical set for Marriott Lincolnshire appeared …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:00PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
The 9th annual Chicago Dancing Festival is shining a special spotlight on "Modern Women" as part of its week-long programming at three Chicago venues.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AMSunday, August 16, 2015
Hershey Felder, that master of all theatrical trades (actor, director, pianist, composer, writer, designer, producer), ...
The post Hershey Felder plans multifaceted season for Royal George …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:21PMSaturday, August 15, 2015
Light Opera Works' fine revival of the 1949 classic "South Pacific" - a late summer treat at Evanston's Cahn Auditorium - is a reminder of just how powerfully Rodgers and Hammersetin address…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:00PMSunday, August 9, 2015
Pride Films & Plays' impressive Chicago premiere of "The Boy from Oz" - the jukebox musical about the life of Peter Allen, the Australian-born performer, songwriter and sexual adventure…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:03PMFriday, August 7, 2015
Wondrous. Hypnotic. An unparalleled flight of the imagination, and a glorious exploration of the physical limits of the human body. Cirque du Soleil's "Kurios - Cabinet of Curiosities," the …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:59PMThursday, August 6, 2015
The lineup for Broadway in Chicago's free preview of the season in Millennium Park has been announced.
The post Broadway in Chicago’s summer preview concert appeared first on Chicago E…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:35PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
National touring productions of two big musicals - "42nd Street" and "Newsies" - will be heading to Chicago next year courtesy of Broadway in Chicago.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:02PMPlays by Samuel D. Hunter and John Van Druten, plus the Chicago debut of the award-winning "Bat Boy:The Musical" are on the docket for Griffin Theatre's 2015-2016 season.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:48PMChicago's public sculptures lead difficult lives. Buffeted by snowstorms and freezing temperatures, relentlessly exposed to every shrill siren, dumped on by waves of pigeons, and surrounded …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:01PMThere might be an audience, somewhere out there in Chicagoland, for "We Gotta Bingo," the interactive "entertainment" that has set up shop in the new Chicago Theater Works space and trumpete…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:04PMMonday, August 3, 2015
The nominees for the 21st Annual Black Theater Alliance/Ira Aldridge Awards have been announced. The ...
The post Black Theater Alliance Awards announces nominations appeared first on Chicag…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:31PMSunday, August 2, 2015
In one way or another, Anton Chekhov has become the man of the moment on Chicago stages, even if his plays do not always arrive in their "original" form. Consider Sideshow Theatre's hit prod…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:10PMFriday, July 31, 2015
Confession: I was lured to Arlene Hutton’s two-character play “Last Train to Nibroc” by the ...
The post “Last Train to Nibroc” is just the beginning of a fine …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:01PMThursday, July 30, 2015
There is no shortage of spectacle or talent on the stage of the Cadillac Palace Theatre at the moment, where the national touring company of director Diane Paulus' circus-infused production …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:58PMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Ten-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune will perform "Taps, Tunes and Tall Tales," his one-man show, as the headliner at Chicago Human Rhythm Project's 25th anniversary Jubalee Gala to be held…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:56PMYou’ve got to hand it to Cirque du Soleil. Founded in 1984 by two Montreal ...
The post In search of another dimension in Cirque du Soleil’s ‘KURIOS’ appeared first o…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:00AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
In a Chicago summer marked by an unusual number of outstanding shows, the most remarkable one of all is "Feast." A unique celebration of the role food plays in the lives of this city's immig…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:35PMMonday, July 27, 2015
Chicago premiere of "Unspeakable," the "dramatic fantasia inspired by the life of the comedic legend," is headed to the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut for a limited…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 10:59AM 
