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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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Who will live in that pineapple under the sea? Okay, actually on the stage of ...
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By Kyle MacMillan | For the Sun-Times Sibling treachery, religious conversion, romantic rivalry and a ...
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Broadway 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…
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…
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…
Steppenwolf Theatre and Boka Restaurant Group have joined forces in a new cafe/theater venture to ...
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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 …
Two very different events "Â but both with decidedly East-West connections "Â are headed to Chicago stages ...
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Consider these statistics: During the course of his life William Shakespeare is believed to have ...
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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 …
The 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…
By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press NEW YORK " It's a match made in musical ...
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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…
With 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…
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…
Chicago Theater Works today announced the return of “Flanagan’s Wake,” the hugely popular interactive musical ...
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One thing is clear: Lyric Opera of Chicago has made no small plans for its 2016-2017 season.
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Pop 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…
Andy Richter and Jane Lynch play Mike and Carol Brady in a YouTube video of ...
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Call 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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Kids 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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Yes, 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…
By Mary Houlihan | For the Sun-Times As a child, Tyler Beattie loved fairy tales. ...
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By Derrik J. Lang |Â Associated Press The comedic character actor Richard Libertini has died. He ...
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