Monday, 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 10:59AMThursday, July 23, 2015
"Shakespeare's Greatest Hits," is this summer's touring show in the city's parks. It's full of talent and energy, but all the sampling and cut-and-paste techniques seem designed for short at…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:16PMThe Theater Wit production of Joshua Harmon's comedy of cross-cultural manners - which not only enjoyed a successful initial run in its Chicago premiere, and is virtually sold-out for its su…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:54PMJohn Rubinstein was 26 when he made his Broadway debut and created the title role in the 1972 Broadway musical, "Pippin." Now he's playing Pippin's father, Charlemagne, in the national tour …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:00PMWednesday, July 22, 2015
Plans have been announced for a memorial service for Abena Joan Brown, the pioneering force in the arts, who focused her energy and zeal on nurturing Chicago's black artists. It will be on T…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:30PMIn Terrence McNally's "A Perfect Ganesh" - the second of three plays that comprise Eclipse Theatre's current season devoted to the work of the prolific playwright - two middle-aged women ...…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:44PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Kokandy Productions' latest effort - and it's a beauty - is "Loving Repeating," a quirky, moving chamber musical that probes the heart and mind of modernist writer Gertrude Stein.
The post &…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:29PMMonday, July 20, 2015
They’ve dubbed it “Carnaval 2015,” and the title aptly suggests the celebratory nature of the ...
The post “Carnaval 2015″ to showcase eight new works by Latina…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:49PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
The Joffrey Academy of Dance, official school of The Joffrey Ballet, has announced a national call for ALAANA (African, Latino(a), Asian, Arab and Native American) artists to submit applicat…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:41PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Without question, director-choreographer Rachel Rockwell's enchanting production of Disney's "The Little Mermaid," now at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, has enough enthralling visual magic…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:24PMMonday, July 13, 2015
American Theater Company (ATC) has scheduled a public memorial for its late artistic director, PJ Paparelli, who died in May from injuries due to a car accident in Scotland. It will be held …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:27PMAs anyone familiar with the Black Ensemble Theater will tell you, there have been many moments when a performer has arrived on the company's stage bringing such an uncanny sense of the spiri…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:50PMThe Gift Theatre may call home an unquestionably intimate storefront at 4802 N. Milwaukee in the city's Jefferson Park neighborhood. But the company has just announced big plans for its 15th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:59AMSunday, July 12, 2015
"Grand Concourse" is Heidi Schreck's beautiful tragicomedy of life, love, faith, work, aspiration, failure, truth, lies, rebirth and that whole crazy stew we refer to as "humanity." And it i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:59PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
Chicago is something of a second home for the work of Stephen Sondheim, the genius of Broadway, now 85 and still at work. So "A Sondheim Celebration," part of this summer's Grant Park Music …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:48PMFriday, July 3, 2015
After seven seasons, The Music Theatre Company (TMTC), the Highland Park-based professional theater dedicated to ...
The post Highland Park’s Music Theatre Company to cease operation a…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:20PMThey meet cute, as kids, in Atlantic City. The year is 1952. Cee Cee desperately craves an audience, and Bertie can only be dazzled by this child who is bursting with such talent and moxie. …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:42PMThursday, July 2, 2015
In Martin Sherman's "Bent," a play that became something of a "cause celebre" when it debuted in London in 1979 with Ian McKellen in its central role, it is the plight of those forced to we…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:02PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
Talk about perfect timing. On the very day of President Obama’s formal announcement regarding the ...
The post Cuban dancers in Chicago at opportune moment appeared first on Chicago En…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:06PMCyndi Lauper came to the phone on the morning of June 26th, at the very moment that the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision making same-sex marriage a right nationwide. An…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:02PMMonday, June 29, 2015
It's back: The Hypocrites is now performing its revised remount of "All Our Tragic" - director Sean Graney's awe-inspiring 12-hour adaptation of all 32 of the surviving ancient Greek tragedi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:21PMIs Anton Chekhov rolling over in his grave in the Moscow cemetery where he was buried in 1904, at the far too young age of 44? Or, having caught wind of Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Soni…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:59PM"Gotta Dance," the new Broadway-bound musical with a Chicago tryout this winter, has announced its cast.
The post New musical ‘Gotta Dance’ announces cast appeared first on Chica…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:26AMFriday, June 26, 2015
To what extent are the personalities and relationship histories of your parents indicators of your own trajectory in life? Is their behavior imitated, sometimes to disastrous effect? Or is i…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:29PMChicago Tap Theater, founded in 2002 by dancer-choreographer Mark Yonally, can spin a story in a way few other dance or theater companies can match. Innovative, richly musical and character-…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:05PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
Museums are no longer just about what hangs on the walls or rests in glass cases. Performance has become a major element in their programming, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has be…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:59PMMonday, June 22, 2015
Ayad Akhtar, the Milwaukee-bred writer of Pakistani heritage who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Disgraced," a work about Muslim-American identity, is not an entirely subtle …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 09:11PMSunday, June 21, 2015
Lookingglass Theatre's world premiere production of "Moby Dick" is a triumph of grand theatrical imagination, deep thought, superb acting and the most ingeniously deployed physical daring. S…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:59PMFriday, June 19, 2015
"City of Angels" is a ferociously tricky musical to carry off - one that requires an A-list director and a large, virtuosic cast, all of whom possess the kind of immense intelligence and st…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:31PMThursday, June 18, 2015
In 2012, I reviewed “Jamaica Farewell” that played at Chicago’s Chopin Theatre. Here is part ...
The post “Jamaica Farewell” headed to the Royal George appeared…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:14PMWithout question, it's the rhythm that's gonna get you in "On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan," the new Broadway-bound musical that spins the story of the early years of th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:50PM 
