Few shows have sold out their entire run as quickly " it took only minutes. Even fewer have been mounted with such secrecy " meaningful advance information about the script, the characters o…
Few shows have sold out their entire run as quickly " it took only minutes. Even fewer have been mounted with such secrecy " meaningful advance information about the script, the characters o…
The third in a savvy trifecta of separate but strikingly similar, mostly British musicals, all about empowering creative kids and their unconventional teachers " and, in the words of the ped…
It now has been 18 years since Julie Taymor's "The Lion King" bowed on Broadway, and the tour that officially opened at the Cadillac Palace Theatre Friday has been carting giraffes on stilts…
It now has been 18 years since Julie Taymor's "The Lion King" bowed on Broadway, and the tour that officially opened at the Cadillac Palace Theatre Friday has been carting giraffes on stilts…
What are we to make of these bizarre later Broadway endeavors by the man from Chicago who wrote some of the greatest dramas of the 20th century? Are they soupcons? Digressions or meditations…
NEW YORK " What are we to make of these bizarre later Broadway endeavors by the man from Chicago who wrote some of the greatest dramas of the 20th century? Are they soupcons? Digressions or …
It's a cold fall morning at New 42nd Street Studios, the maternity ward for most new Broadway musicals. Choreographer Nick Kenkel is standing facing a mirror, leading a crucial warmup. "Juni…
It's a cold fall morning at New 42nd Street Studios, the maternity ward for most new Broadway musicals. Choreographer Nick Kenkel is standing facing a mirror, leading a crucial warmup. "Juni…
Like the Internal Revenue Service, Brussels sprouts, synchronized swimmers and Rodney Dangerfield, baritones get no respect. Sure, everyone loves a tenor, their high Cs ringing out like gon…
If you're playing Carole King in a jukebox show titled "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical," you have to deal with being compared to one of the most beloved singer-songwriters in American m…
Gone are the handsome Stephen Colbert wannabes in their crisp shirts and ties. Retired are the camera-ready, studiously neutral Jon Stewart acolytes, all prepumped up for fake news or weeken…
Like the Internal Revenue Service, Brussels sprouts, synchronized swimmers and Rodney Dangerfield, baritones get no respect. Sure, everyone loves a tenor, their high Cs ringing out like gond…
Within every British male breast beats a feverish insecurity concerning the French " especially when it comes to matters of pleasing women in matters of love. You can see this timeless nati…
Within every British male breast beats a feverish insecurity concerning the French " especially when it comes to matters of pleasing women in matters of love. You can see this timeless natio…
On Tuesday night, the first national tour of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" arrives in Chicago for a 12-week engagement at the Oriental Theatre. In the title role will be Abby Mueller,…
A metallic flagpole has been set up in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre in Aurora and at Sunday night's opening of "A Christmas Story " The Musical" it was quite the magnet for tongues. I…
A metallic flagpole has been set up in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre in Aurora and at Sunday night's opening of "A Christmas Story " The Musical" it was quite the magnet for tongues. I …
Three days after the Chicago premiere of Spike Lee's much-discussed movie "Chi-Raq," a provocatively titled but strikingly hopeful film about the scourge of gun deaths in Chicago, a Cook Cou…
At the end of the new touring production of "Sherlock Holmes," at the Oriental Theatre for Thanksgiving week, that great breathy saxophone solo from the late Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit "Baker…
Three days after the Chicago premiere of Spike Lee's much-discussed movie "Chi-Raq," a provocatively titled but strikingly hopeful film about the scourge of gun deaths in Chicago, a Cook Cou…
At the end of the new touring production of "Sherlock Holmes," at the Oriental Theatre for Thanksgiving week, that great breathy saxophone solo from the late Gerry Rafferty's 1978 hit "Baker…
Theater icon Stephen Sondheim was given the Carl Sandburg Literary Award on Oct. 21 by the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Sondheim was interviewed on stage by Scott Simon of National Pub…
Theater icon Stephen Sondheim was given the Carl Sandburg Literary Award on Oct. 21 by the Chicago Public Library Foundation. Sondheim was interviewed on stage by Scott Simon of National Pub…
"No More Sad Things," the world premiere at the Richard Christiansen Theater at the Biograph, is about a holiday romance on Maui " a kind of Pacific version of "How Stella Got Her Groove Bac…