Monday, January 25, 2016
American Blues Theater, the company whose recent memorable productions have included "Side Man," "Hank Williams: Lonesome Highway" and "The Rainmaker," has announced its 2016-2017 season.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:40PMWho will live in that pineapple under the sea? Okay, actually on the stage of ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:02AMSunday, January 24, 2016
By Kyle MacMillan | For the Sun-Times Sibling treachery, religious conversion, romantic rivalry and a ...
The post Verdi’s ‘Nabucco’ returns in force to the Lyric Oper…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:39PMBroadway musicals can be intriguing barometers of where mainstream audiences happened to be at any particular point in history. This was driven home after watching the exuberant Paramount Th…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:52PMFriday, January 22, 2016
How do you inject genuine fun, fizz and frenzy into "Bye Bye Birdie," the musical that arrived on Broadway in 1960, served as an homage to the 1950s, and now, in so many ways, might easily f…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:18PMThursday, January 21, 2016
The legacy of the Black Power movement of the 1960s is still open to fierce debate. But what is often neglected in all the talk is any consideration of the fallout that period had on the chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:30PMSteppenwolf Theatre and Boka Restaurant Group have joined forces in a new cafe/theater venture to ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:35PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
A Red Orchid Theater's production of Tennessee Williams' "The Mutilated" is a sort of act of salvation for the playwright. And watching it you cannot help but think that Williams is looking …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:37PMTwo very different events — but both with decidedly East-West connections — are headed to Chicago stages ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:00PMConsider these statistics: During the course of his life William Shakespeare is believed to have ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:05PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
As Robert Frost famously wrote: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." But to judge by Dan LeFranc's dreadful new play, "Bruise Easy," now receiving …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:07PMThe law office that serves as the backdrop for "London Wall" - the beguiling vintage classic by John Van Druten that has been revived with period-perfect flair for its Griffin Theatre produc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:41PMBy Mark Kennedy | Associated Press NEW YORK — It’s a match made in musical ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 12:43PMSunday, January 17, 2016
Watching "Satchmo at the Waldorf," Terry Teachout's fascinating one-man (three character) fantasia about Louis Armstrong - now in its Midwest permiere at Court Theatre, where Barry Shabaka H…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:11PMWith its ravishing singing and orchestral accompaniment, its vivid acting, and its stark, stunningly modern design, the Marriott Theatre production of "Spring Awakening" is transfixing on ev…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:05PMFriday, January 15, 2016
Chicago native L. Scott Caldwell is part of the very large and esteemed ensemble cast of "Mercy Street," the six-part PBS Civil War drama mini-series debuting at 8 p.m. Sunday on WTTW-Channe…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:00AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Chicago Theater Works today announced the return of “Flanagan’s Wake,” the hugely popular interactive musical ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 06:07PMOne thing is clear: Lyric Opera of Chicago has made no small plans for its 2016-2017 season.
The post Lyric Opera’s 2016-17 season to range from new ‘Ring Cycle’ to ‘…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:14PMPop quiz: Where will you find some of the most honest, moving, skillful acting on any Chicago stage at the moment? Answer: You might be surprised to hear this, but it is at Raven Theatre, wh…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:37PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Andy Richter and Jane Lynch play Mike and Carol Brady in a YouTube video of ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 08:47PMCall it the tale of two solo theater projects that started out as one but, as these things often do, resulted in a parting of ways.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:47PMKids of all ages undoubtedly will be flocking to Navy Pier this weekend as Elmo and that lovable, furry red Muppet is joined by a bunch of his Sesame Street pals.
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:53PMYes, it is set in a women's prison where at least some of the inmates have committed drug-related crimes. But no, "Another Word for Beauty," Jose Rivera's world premiere play-with-music at t…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:00PMBy Mary Houlihan | For the Sun-Times As a child, Tyler Beattie loved fairy tales. ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:00PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
By Derrik J. Lang | Associated Press The comedic character actor Richard Libertini has died. He ...
The post Character actor Richard Libertini, a Second City alum, dies at 82 appeared …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:28PMFor most parents, the death of a child is the most devastating occurrence imaginable. So what playwright William Donnelly suggests in "No Wake," now in its Midwest premiere by Route 66 Theat…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:31PMThis year marks the 35th anniversary of the MacArthur Fellows Program - more familiarly known as "the genius grants." And the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation plans to celebrate…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:01AMMonday, January 11, 2016
In addition to the musicals produced as part of its standard season, Porchlight Music Theatre presents shows under the umbrella title "Porchlight Revisits," which features three-night-only c…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:16PMLyric Opera of Chicago today announced that Tony Award-nominated Kate Baldwin and Broadway actor Paolo Montalban ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 03:00PMWorld-renowned mentalist Marc Salem is bringing a Chicago-centric version of his interactive “Mind Over” series ...
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SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:30AMSunday, January 10, 2016
Thodos Dance Chicago's world premiere work, "Sono's Journey," was a great moment in living dance history, fabled ballerina Sono Osato, frail but still elegant at the age of 96, made the trip…
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