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Balanchine-gone-wild by way of Spanish choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano. The nature of male and female eroticism and ritual by way of that European master, Jiri Kylian. A knockout solo …
With its intimate, fiercely impassioned, superbly sung production of "Jesus Christ Superstar," Theo Ubique Cabaret Theater has tapped into the full meaning and power of this rock opera in a …
"First Wives Club" may have been a perfectly fine comedy of (bad) manners when it arrived as a film starring Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn back in 1996. But now, in its musical …
Court Theatre hasn't even begun previews for its world premiere production, "The Good Book," an intriguing exploration of the Bible by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson that will run March 19 -…
For its 2015-2016 season, the Goodman Theatre will stage a number of less frequently produced ...
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For Gustavo RamiÌrez Sansano, choreographing a new piece for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has been both a personal and artistic homecoming " a celebration of the city he calls his "second…
Passage on The Hypocrites' zany Gilbert & Sullivan productions is heavily booked " at two regional theaters.
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The Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has dubbed its 2015-2016 season "Biting the Apple." That's because the three plays selected " by Caryl Churchill, Noel Coward and Bertolt Brecht " all explore…
Steppenwolf Theatre's Garage Rep series proves that Gil Scott-Heron was right when he played on the Black Power Movement slogan, "The revolution will not be televised." Turns out it will app…
Playwrights Lucas Hnath and Anne Washburn, both familiar to Chicago audiences, are among the 10 writers honored with the Whiting Award. Each honoree receives $50,000.
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In "For the Record: Dear John Hughes," the adolescent characters from his many hit 1980s films act out their angst and sing songs from the soundtracks of such films as "Pretty in Pink," "The…
There can be no better reminder of the power of intimate spaces than the Writers Theatre's production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" that is now tucked into the back room of Glencoe's Books on…
Do not be fooled by the formal title of Mat Smart's "The Royal Society of Antarctica," the altogether world class, world premiere play that has just arrived at The Gift Theatre and is an imm…
To meet the high demand for tickets to its galvanic production of "The Royale," Marco Ramirez's rhythmically-powered play about boxing, race and more, the American Theater Company, 1909 W. B…
Steppenwolf Theatre has announced its 2015-2016 subscription season which will mark the kickoff of the company's 40th anniversary. Among the productions to be produced will be a world premie…
Broadway In Chicago's 2015-2016 season will feature three Tony Award winners: "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the revival of "Cabaret," and "Matilda The Musical." Also on the sched…
August Wilson did not invent African-American theater, although throughout the 1980s and ’90s it might ...
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Something extraordinary is happening on Scotland's stages these days, and it has resulted in the creation of two productions that serve as intriguing meditations on the futility (and inevita…
To start, a hypothetical question addressed to the powers that be at Steppenwolf Theatre: How would you react were you to arrive at work one morning only to discover that the entire facade o…
The title of Steven Dietz's play, "Yankee Tavern," is a bit of a red herring, subtly calling to mind the communal bar scene of television's "Cheers." But Dietz, whose play is receiving a zes…
Those doorbells are ringing again at the Bank of America Theatre, and that can mean only one thing: "The Book of Mormon," the raucously irreverent Tony Award-winning musical with a book and …
Enter The Den Theatre, where director Halena Kays has staged a unique and wonderful production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" for The Hypocrites, and you really have to wonder just what she a…
What price glory? That is the ultimate, yet far from the only question posed in "The Royale," Marco Ramirez 's astonishing 75 minute play " a tightly laced glove of a drama about race, succe…
In Lifeline Theatre's stage adaptation of Amy Timberlake's young adult novel, both the birds and the young women seem to have been in a state of profound upheaval in the town of Placid, Wisc…
What do you do as an encore to a marathon of Greek tragedies and a re-envisioned take on Gilbert & Sullivan operettas? Well, if you are The Hypocrites, you try your hand at a rock music…
