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It looks like any other children's theater. Sets, costumes and children onstage, beaming parents in the sold-out audience.
But look closely and you'll see the troupe performing Meredith Willson's classic musical "The Music Man" consists of children with special needs -- everything from autism to cerebral palsy.
We've all heard of "the white man's burden" of an imperialist past; here, Ensler has created her own version of "the white woman's burden."
Although "West Side Story" was named the best picture of 1961 and won 10 Academy Awards, it is not much mentioned by movie fans these days, and the old warhorse "Singin' in the Rain" is probably more seen and certainly better loved.
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The genesis of the Broadway musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie" began in a summer home with poor television reception.
Playwright Michael Henry Brown traces his interest in Stepin Fetchit back to the late '60s.
Imagine taking Frank Loesser's wholly irresistible, color-comics style musical "Guys & Dolls" and trying to convert it into a black-and-white newsreel -- a show filled with all the angst of …
Interview with British playwright Joe Penhall ("Blue/Orange").
"Oliver!"
This is a show that could truly soar if it chose to be as relentless as the lovers themselves.
Throughout the 1980s and '90s, the Goodman Theatre served as something of a second artistic home to Spalding Gray.
Borrow from Charles Dickens the two words that best describe the musical theater life of composer Adam Guettel.
The first film with her name in the credits was 1933's "Flying Down to Rio," which also marked the first pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on the silver screen. Ms. Barnett played a …
Trick question: Who is the contemporary American equivalent of William Shakespeare?
With Michael Cerveris.
Here are a handful of observations from a year of theatergoing.
En garde! The French Cultural Services office of Chicago will be joining forces with 10 Chicago theater institutions next October and November for a festival designed to showcase the work of…
There was a time when the theater world was neatly divided into two camps of actors -- those who performed in straight dramas and those who worked in musicals. There was a bit of snobbery involved, although if you delved deep into the souls of some classical actors you might find they harbored a secret dream of doing musical comedy.
The Museum of Contemporary Art's fine performance program regularly puts Chicago audiences well ahead of the curve. It was the MCA, for example, that first showcased Doug Wright's "I Am My O…
The all-star 20th anniversary production of "Nunsense," scheduled to run Jan. 13-18 at the Auditorium Theatre, has been canceled due to lack of ticket sales.
Mark O'Donnell and Paul Huntley on "Hairspray."
