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Earlier this week in the Tribune, Nina Metz looked in on Chicago's newest "Saturday Night Live" cast members.
Chicago's Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel attended the Off-Loop show "A Twist of Water" on Saturday night in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood. "There was a genuine emotional charge when Rahm's prese…
THEATER REVIEW: "A Twist of Water" ★★★★ Through March 20 Route 66 Theatre Company at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave.; Running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes; Tickets: $2…
The roof of the Skyline Stage on Navy Pier was blown off its frame during a storm Dec 12. (Tribune photo by Nancy Stone) Its canvas roof lifted up and away by the gales off Lake Michigan on …
A new theater piece by John Conroy, the former Chicago Reader writer who reported extensively and over many years on allegations of torture in the Chicago Police Department, will be the cent…
The Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, now in residence at Theatre Wit, has announced its 2011-12 season: "Pippin" (the musical by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson). Directed by Peter Marston Su…
Kimberly Senior will direct Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" as part of a new American Blues Theater season dedicated to the American worker. The classic title will open the American Blue…
Gary Griffin ("Pacific Overtures," "The Color Purple") will direct a major Chicago revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" to kick off the 2011-12 season at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. This…
A new musical murder mystery, "Murder For Two,' is headed to Chicago Shakespeare Theater. With music by Joe Kinosian, lyrics by Kellen Blair and book by Kinosian and Blair, "Murder for Two" …
Producer Whoopi Goldberg and director Sergio Trujillo at a rehearsal for "White Noise," coming to the Royal George Theatre. "White Noise," the new pre-Broadway musical produced by Holly Way,…
The Belarus Free Theatre exits Chicago after one final performance of "Being Harold Pinter" Monday night at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier. As was the case in New York, Monday nigh…
Second City is to announce Monday that it will create a new venue in the Piper's Alley space formerly occupied by the show "Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding." The 280-seat space, which will be develo…
There aren't many plays set on farms"theaters generally resist the potential need for livestock in the dressing room. And although Laura Jacqmin does not require four-legged actors in her "D…
THEATER REVIEW: "Dead Pile" by XIII Pocket ★★½ There aren't many plays set on farms"theaters generally resist the potential need for livestock in the dressing room. And althou…
Michael Mahler, E. Faye Butler, Juan Gabriel Ruiz, Emjoy Gavino, Gene Weygandt and Barbara Robertson at rehearsal of "Working," which is currently in previews and opens March 2 at the Broadw…
THEATER REVIEW: "Sketchbook Reverb" ★★½ Through March 27 at Flat Iron Arts Building, 1575 N. Milwaukee Ave.; Running time: 1 hour, 50 minutes; Tickets: $18-$25 at 312-226-9633…
Pat Quinn, the theater-loving Governor of Illinois, says he will attend "Jackie and Me" on Saturday morning at Chicago Children's Theatre on Tuesday. He plans to make an on-stage introductio…
The Los Angeles comedy club is coming to Chicago and will book stand-up at the Lakeshore Theatre at 3175 N. Broadway on Chicago's North Side. The seats are going and will be replaced with ta…
James (Scott Jaeck), David (Alex Weisman), Jonathan (Eddie Bennett) and Dolores (Barbara Garrick) have dinner while Mary (Myra Lucretia Taylor) tends to them. ' "Mary" at the Goodman Theatre…
Nina Metz has the Tribune reviews of "the tim&micah project: VERSUS" ★★★ at Donny's Skybox in Piper's Alley (left), as well as the double bill of The Katydids and The Good …
The Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Eric Simonson appears to have found a viable new niche: plays about sports figures. Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo, the producers of Simonson's "Lombar…
New theater reviews in the Tribune this week: Kerry Reid gives ★★★ to "The Moonstone" (Through March 27 at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood Ave.; Running time: 2 hours, 4…
Alice Ripley, the star of "Next to Normal" (left) and a Broadway actress with something of a cult following, will make her Chicago concert debut at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave., on May 2.…
"Snapshots," a new book musical that will be filled with the pre-existing songs of Stephen Schwartz, will premiere at the Northlight Theatre in the fall, the theater will officiously announc…
Last summer, the Auditorium Theatre booked in "Fureza Bruta: Look Up," an avant-garde attraction that did not do well. This year, the venerable venue is taking a rather less risky tack. Jake…
