Monday, April 22, 2013
Podcast with Rock The Audition Creator SHERI SANDERS from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Rock The Audition creator Sheri Sanders discusses her method for teaching actors how to properly audition …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:03PMCommedia Beauregard, a Chicago-based non-profit theater company, has announced the premiere of Master Works: The Van Gogh Plays, a festival of short plays based on works by Vincent Van Go…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:47PMStarring real-life couple and legendary actors Dame Judi Dench(Shakespeare in Love, Skyfall) and her late husband Michael Williams (Educating Rita)as two middle-aged misfits embarking on…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:33PMFascinating, new PBS documentary explores Jewish contributions to Broadway; Performances by Barbra Streisand, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Kristin Chenoweth and many more! Engaging, humor…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:31PMThe Filament Theatre Ensemble is pleased to announce the next in its Music Mondays series, a concert series featuring local musicians that takes place on the first Monday of every month in t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:24PMSunday, April 21, 2013
Podcast with CHUCK WAGNER from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:51PMPodcast with CHUCK WAGNER from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Musical theatre superstar Chuck Wagner discusses his amazing career as well as his current role as the Captain in Anything Goes oppos…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 09:38PMReviewed by: JOSEPH HILLENMEYER Monty Python’s comedy could be hit or miss at times: some sketches had you had rolling on the floor, others utterly confused and some just weren’t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:18PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
When adapting a film for the stage, it is always a creative fine line of balancing viewer expectations. In most aspects Big Fish, the latest film to stage adaptation which had its official p…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:23PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
American Theater Company concludes 2012-2013 Season with a revised remount of Speech & Debate, written by Stephen Karam, and directed by Artistic Director PJ Paparelli. Speech & …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:09PMRed Tape Theatre is pleased to announce that Artistic Director and founding ensemble member James D Palmer (The Love of the Nightingale, Elephant’s Graveyard), has been accepted into t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:45PMIt’s King Lear. But there’s no King Lear. Experimental playwright and Doris Duke Artist Award winner Young Jean Lee has penned a whimsical and psychologically disturbing look at a worl…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:40PMOn April 22nd, the world will celebrate Earth Day. Sustainable food and agriculture systems can play a big role in preserving the environment by helping to improve soil health, protecting bi…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:23PMPorchlight Music Theatre is proud to present Pal Joey, book by John O’Hara, music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, April 20 – May 26, at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmon…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:03PMThe Music Box Theatre continues its partnership with the UK’s National Theatre Live to exhibit live stage performances beamed to Chicago from the prestigious National Theatre in Londo…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:56PMFulcrum Point New Music Project’s Founder and Artistic Director Stephen Burns discusses the non-for-profit company and the upcoming performance of Altered States with a 75 piece orches…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:46PMAbout Face Theatre is pleased to present a remount of its wildly popular Youth Ensemble world premiere WHAT’S THE T? by Sara Kerastas and The About Face Youth Theatre Ensemble, direc…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:34PMIt is always a task in futility when discussing American Idiot (punk super group Green Day’s 6 x platinum selling album turned 2010 Broadway musical), to those who simply don’t like the …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 01:10PMTuesday, April 16, 2013
About a quarter of the way through Samuel H. Hunter’s Chicago premiere of The Whale, which opened last night at Victory Gardens Theater, one wants to place a call to Richard Simmons to do …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:30PMMonday, April 15, 2013
To accommodate extraordinary ticket demand, Lifeline Theatre is thrilled to add four additional performances to the run of its family musical, The Emperor’s New Threads: A Fashion State…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:45PM Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner – co-owners of The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group – have hired Chris Curren as an Executive Chef. Curren will helm the kitchens at both the “literal farm-t…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 04:07PMNatural Gas, the house improv team of The Gift Theatre, begins its open run at The Second City this Sunday, April 21 at 8 p.m. The first installment, Natural Gas: Thornes, will be an en…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:39PMVinnie Lacey, executive director of the Chicago Fringe Festival is proud to announce the 2013 design contest winner is Alex Kostiw of Chicago. The design will appear on all marketing a…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 03:29PMPodcast with Big Fish Composer ANDREW LIPPA from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. One of our favorite guests, composer Andrew Lippa discusses his newest production, BIG FISH, which is having its pr…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 10:08AMSaturday, April 13, 2013
When watching shows for the purposes of reviewing, one has to be careful to keep the current production as the main focus. But as theatre is the most alive of any type of entertainment, ce…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:49PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Rock Musical Audition Pioneeress, Hal Leonard Published Author of Rock The Audition, How To Prepare For and Get Cast in Rock Musicals, and the worlds only Rock Music Repertoire coach Sheri …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 07:20PMREVIEWED BY: JOSEPH HILLENMEYER “To The Wonder” – Terrence Malick’s recent romantic drama – begins with Neil (Ben Affleck) and Marina (Olga Kurylenko) spinning and turtle dovin…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:42PMNobody sees the world in the way Rachel Rockwell does. Case in point, her new poignant production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, which opened last night at the Drury Lane Theatre. Ms.…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 02:25PMThursday, April 11, 2013
Following its, critically acclaimed, sold-out run at Angel Island this winter, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. is pleased to transfer its Jeff Recommended production of Tennessee Williams’ clas…
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 06:22PMREVIEWED BY: RUSSELL GOELTENBODT The Marriott Lincolnshire Theater’s 2013 season started off on a successful note with “Now and Forever, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Now continuing …
SOURCE: showbizchicago.com at 05:20PMPodcast with American Idiot’s ALEX NEE from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo.
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