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The Paramount Theatre in Aurora today announced its full lineup (in addition to the previously ...
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Jackie Taylor, founder and artistic director of the Black Ensemble Theater (BET), is a woman with a longstanding, all-consuming mission. So when you ask her about the thinking behind BET's f…
The 1991 musical based on Francis Hodgson Burnett's 1911childrens novel - with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon - is a sophisticated beauty. And the Court Theatre rev…
The New York-based Shubert Foundation looks well past Broadway, giving support to theaters and other ...
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“The Drowning Girls,” a work by three female playwrights that reflects on the misconceptions of ...
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Chicago theaters keep upping the ante in their feverish goal to showcase new plays. The latest example is Victory Gardens Theater, which has long forged its identity on presenting new work, …
Joffrey Ballet Artistic Director Ashley Wheater will be awarded the University of Chicago Jesse L. ...
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Steppenwolf Theatre has announced the lineup for its 10th annual First Look series, the program dedicated to new play development that will run in rotating repertory Aug. 11 " 16 in the Upst…
Sick, sicker, sickest. And doomed. That is the most accurate shorthand for describing the four troubled and twisted characters in "Our New Girl," the work of Dublin-bred, London-based playw…
During the past several decades "the Indian subcontinent" has changed dramatically, and a whole new artistic energy has emerged. It is this art - in many disciplines, and with all its links …
It didn’t take Vanessa Bayer long to make an impression on “Saturday Night Live.” On ...
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If William Finn could bottle his infectious, just slightly loony laugh, he could easily sit back, collect the profits and watch as the human parade marched by.
Taking a journalism class in her freshman year at Rutgers, Tracey Scott Wilson felt the pull of bending the truth when her early assignments -- 'go find out why the water's been cut off' -- …
Christina Applegate, star of "Sweet Charity," playing at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, injured her foot during Friday's performance and will not appear in today's final performance.
The revival is not so much bad as it is cute, slight and bland. And more often than not, this production -- directed by Walter Bobbie and brightly choreographed in the Fosse mold by Wayne Ci…
The resignation of Eileen Mackevich as president and executive producer of the Chicago Humanities Festival, where she had worked as a founding force for 16 years, came as quite a surprise.
Plus an item on Arthur Miller and Inge Morath.
To celebrate its 30th anniversary throughout the 2005-06 season, Steppenwolf Theatre has decided to take five big risks. For the first time in its history its principal subscription series w…
Ntozake Shange's new play, "Lavender Lizards and Lilac Landmines: Layla's Dream," suggests that the author -- still best remembered for her groundbreaking 1976 work "For Colored Girls Who Ha…
