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Chicago Opera Theater's Everest is stunning contemporary opera.
It was a great weekend for contemporary opera in Chicago. Lyric's not-to-be-missed Dead Man Walki…
by Alec Brown. @brownta3. NEW YORK, NY - Producers of the long-running Broadway musical Chicago announced today that they're updating the show's famous slogan, "Broadway's Sure Thing", to a …
DÉJÀ VU MEETS GROUNDHOG DAY "Birth was the death of him": Terse to the point of cruelty, Samuel Beckett devours the human experience in six words, repeatedly juxtaposing graves with …
Robert Falls' understated production does not impose its will upon the audience but rather presents the facts of Mozart's opera plainly.
CHICAGO OPERA THEATER UPS THE ANTE AND PUSHES THE LIMITS The bad news: Everest and Aleko, Chicago Opera Theater's engrossing double bill at Millennium Park's Harris Theatre, clos…
The Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago celebrated its 23rd Broadway anniversary last night, Thursday, November 14th. The production is now playing at Broadway's Ambassad…
The Chicago Parks Foundation today announced that the first phase of the new AIDS Garden Chicago will be complete this [...]
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The name on everybody's lips is gonna be ... Chicago! The legendary revival of Kander and Ebb's iconic musical is celebrating 23 years of all that jazz on Broadway today! To celebrate, we're…
The Kander and Ebb musical opened November 14, 1996 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
The Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago celebrates its 23rd Broadway anniversary tomorrow, Thursday, November 14th. The production is now playing at Broadway's Ambassador…
The central characters feel like an afterthought in Barbara Gaines's contemporized version.
Setting Romeo and Juliet in a contemporary urban setting inevitably d…
Chicago Shakes delivers a vision of their namesake's most well-known tragedy anchored in today's headlines.
"Chicago, for all of its demographic diversity, isn't immune to the racism and (not so blissful) ignorance that plagues American theatres more generally. Many artists see the theatrical expe…
"Mark Larson's new book Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater (Agate Midway), tells the stories of the town's theatre in the words of its makers, from Steppenwolf to Second City to Go…
PICKED, PECKED, AND PACKED Some solo shows can be valued simply for their superb simulations of someone else's story. Others succeed because we pay extra special attention when the chronicle…
HE'S BACK ON DUTY It's now become a holiday classic, Mary Zimmerman's gorgeous The Steadfast Tin Soldier at Lookingglass Theatre. It was glorious last year. It's lost no luster since. In onl…
Casey Donovan has enjoyed a bold and varied career since her meteoric rise to fame at the age of 16. She became the youngest ever winner of Australian Idol in 2004 and over the last thirteen…
A SHOW THAT CASTS A SPELL Whether it really works or it's just self-fulfilling wishful thinking, magic can misfire. Â Detailing a downhome tragedy set in Memphis during the Depression, Hoo…
The production, directed by Wardell Julius Clark, began performances October 31.
The world-renowned Voice of Chicago, Chicago Children's Choir's top-level mixed-voice performance ensemble, kicks off its concert [...]
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The musical will make its world premiere in 2020.
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The characters in Jake Heggie's 2000 opera acquire charisma through the unhappiness of their situations and the obsessions that drive them.
