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4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"

Review: 'Almost Famous' is now a sweet Broadway musical, with the movie's rock 'n' roll edges smoothed away by Chris Jones

Its story is now more a fable of a broken family that needs to be put back together, a theme that also was in Cameron Crowe's film.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 9:00pm on November 3, 2022[SHARE]

Review: Remy Bumppo's 'Routes' ponders immigration questions in the U.K., with young immigrants in the balance by Chris Jones

In many ways, the play is a critique of bureaucratic power structures, endlessly empowered with putting people into Kafkaesque limbos.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 1:21pm on November 2, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Measure for Measure' at Chicago Shakespeare potently resets this 'problem play' amid Cuban turmoil by Chris Jones

Director Henry Godinez' new production opens in a freewheeling 1950s Havana playground of Cuban artistes and the Hotel Nacional.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 3:20pm on October 30, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Walking with Ghosts' on Broadway: Irish actor Gabriel Byrne looks into the shadows of his past by Chris Jones

This play is drawn from his 2020 memoir, from his 1960s youth as the son of a Guinness barrel maker.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:40am on October 28, 2022[SHARE]

Review: In 'The Locusts' by Gift Theatre, an FBI agent is hunting a serial killer " the performances are worth your ticket by Chris Jones

An FBI special agent, known for her skills in profiling serial killers, returns to her small Florida town.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 2:30pm on October 27, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Refuge' at Theo Ubique Theatre is a beautiful musical about the dangerous journey migrants attempt by Chris Jones

For all the sadness in this work, it's also humanistic and celebratory of diverse individuals, all under different kinds of stress.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 3:41pm on October 25, 2022[SHARE]

16th Street Theater in Berwyn is closing down; Raven artistic director announces exit by Chris Jones

The Berwyn-based Equity company with a 15-year history has begun its last show.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 1:15pm on October 24, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Clue' at Mercury Theater has plenty of laughs but not much of a mystery by Chris Jones

I have to report, in all fairness, that much of the audience around me was convulsed with laughter throughout the whole affair.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 6:00am on October 24, 2022[SHARE]

Review: Brothers love and bite hard in powerhouse 'Topdog/Underdog' on Broadway by Chris Jones

Suzan-Lori Parks' play is a phenomenal two-brother drama, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00pm on October 20, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Marys Seacole' by Griffin Theatre tells story of a heroic British-Jamaican nurse by Chris Jones

This complicated play moves backward and forwards in time, probing not just the story of Seacole but the whole question of how we view those who heal us.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 3:30pm on October 19, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'The Malignant Ampersands' debuts at A Red Orchid, a story that's dark, haunting and perhaps deliberately hard to follow by Chris Jones

Brett Neveu specializes in plays that perplex the audience and many of them have been staged in his creative home on Wells Street.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 3:30pm on October 18, 2022[SHARE]

Equity Jeff Awards 2022: 'Good Night, Oscar' and Paramount's 'Kinky Boots' are big winners by Chris Jones

Actor Sean Hayes attended the joyous ceremony at the Drury Lane Theatre. Other top winners included A Red Orchid's "The Moors," Teatro Vista's "Somewhere Over the Border" and Porchlight Musi…

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:46pm on October 17, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Swing State' at the Goodman is the best play since COVID to tap into our divided nation by Chris Jones

Rebecca Gilman's extraordinary new play deserves the broadest possible audience; it deserves a Broadway run.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 2:45pm on October 17, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Children of Eden' musical is reborn in Chicago, starring Michelle Williams. Could Broadway be next? by Chris Jones

The one-night-only, concert-style performance at the Cadillac Palace brought back Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Bible.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 1:35pm on October 16, 2022[SHARE]

Review: '1919' at Steppenwolf Theatre begins with the story of the Chicago Race Riots, and shows the cost of telling it by Chris Jones

In the original poems, Eve Ewing connects the events of 1919 subsequent racially charged events, ranging from the murder of Emmett Till to George Floyd protests.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:15am on October 14, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'The Piano Lesson' on Broadway stars Samuel L. Jackson and reveals August Wilson's new status by Chris Jones

The play stars Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson and is directed by the actor's wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 8:30pm on October 13, 2022[SHARE]

Writers Theatre has a new artistic director and Alex Gemignani moves to Northwestern by Chris Jones

In a major hire for the Glencoe theater, Braden Abraham was previously artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 3:00pm on October 13, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Tiger Style!' at Writers Theatre at times feels overplayed and out of place by Chris Jones

It's an ironclad rule of comedy that you have to keep your big toe in the world of truth, which wasn't the case here.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 6:15am on October 12, 2022[SHARE]

Chicago review:THE NOTEBOOK has gorgeous songs & real romance - SEE IT BEFORE IT GOES TO BROADWAY! by Chris Jones

By really showing what it is like to fight the decay of your own mind, their principal ally is Maryann Plunkett, playing a woman fighting to recover her own memories and offering up as rich …

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:59pm on October 10, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'Death of a Salesman' on Broadway, starring Wendell Pierce, thrills in the present but struggles with the echoes of the past by Chris Jones

Arthur Miller would surely have been delighted at the idea of a revival of his masterful play with an all-Black Loman family. It only intensifies the story.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 9:00pm on October 9, 2022[SHARE]

Review: 'The Notebook' musical has gorgeous songs and real romance " see it before it heads to Broadway by Chris Jones

This new, Broadway-bound musical is now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:25am on October 7, 2022[SHARE]

Review: Broadway's '1776' is a musical at war with itself by Chris Jones

In this production of the much-loved Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, they are open to the charge of bait and switch.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00pm on October 6, 2022[SHARE]

Second City will open a new theater in Brooklyn, New York by Chris Jones

The 63-year-old sketch comedy operation, headquartered throughout its history in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, plans to open a theater in New York City.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 1:17pm on October 6, 2022[SHARE]

Review: Lea Michele rides waves of love in Broadway's 'Funny Girl' by Chris Jones

Come Tony Awards time next spring, the committee is going to have an issue.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:30am on October 6, 2022[SHARE]

Review: Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Cost of Living' on Broadway explores the power struggles in unlikely relationships by Chris Jones

Martyna Majok's resonant, prismatic play from 2018 has now landed on Broadway in New York.

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00pm on October 3, 2022[SHARE]
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