Now the haunting question: Banderas was rumored for years to have been the first choice to star. Is that still true? "Antonio is not doing this version," Schumacher told us, adding, "I haven…
Mr. Troobnick went on to become a prolific character actor with film credits including "California Split" and "Funny Lady." He played Stavros Kouperakis on the soap opera "Guiding Light" fro…
The Tony Award-winning troupe, whose production of "Metamorphoses" has just completed a yearlong Broadway run, will take up residence alongside the building's long-term occupant--the massive pumping station, which still supplies water to the North Side, and whose fat gray pipes suggest the innards of a steely whale.
The most dramatic moment at the opening-night performance Tuesday of "The Exonerated"--the patchwork docudrama about wrongly accused Death Row inmates--occurred immediately after the 90-minute piece ended.
In an eerie conjunction of art and real life, two of the play's subjects walked onstage of the Shubert Theatre and hugged Brian Dennehy and Marlo Thomas--the actors who had just portrayed them.
Two summers ago, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen took several road trips unlike any they would ever embark on again.
Getting a jump on the rest of the Chicago theater community, Steppenwolf Theatre has announced three of its five mainstage productions for the 2003-2004 season.
"The Exonerated."
It's nearly 2 in the afternoon, and Tony Curtis is running late for a noontime interview. He finally arrives, blue eyes glistening, greeting the reporter with a kiss on the hand, followed by…
Warning: If you don't catch Chester Gregory II this week at the New Regal Theater--where he is briefly reprising his sensational turn as pop legend Jackie Wilson in the Black Ensemble Theate…
A review of "The Guys" in Chicago with Jeremy Piven and Alicia Goranson. Future cast members in this production include Daniel J. Travanti and Joan Cusack.
John Irving's vastly popular novel The Cider House Rules seems an unlikely candidate for a stage adaptation.
It was lunchtime when Yakov Smirnoff broke into a jig on East Adams.
Before she helped Mary Tyler Moore turn the world on with her smile, Valerie Harper was a pretty New York dancer trying her hand at comedy at Chicago's Second City.
In my "Best of the Year 2002" roundup that appeared last week in this space, I inadvertently made several omissions.
"No Place Like Home" at Steppenwolf.
It's good to be Queen. Queen Latifah says she feels a bit of a royal flush after being nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the movie musical "Chicago."
It's an intriguing time for the Broadway musical, and that is very definitely not the same thing as saying it's a momentous time for the form.
Trying to keep up with the theater scene in Chicago is a dizzying affair; some nights you just ache to stay home. But for those of us who ventured out, 2002 proved to be a darn good year for…
As the Black Ensemble Theater's Jackie Taylor reminds us in "Ella: The First Lady of Song (The Ella Fitzgerald Story)"--her latest biographical revue of a legendary black musical figure--no …
Review by Roger Ebert
"Chicago" is a musical that might have seemed unfilmable, but that was because it was assumed it had to be transformed into more conventional terms. By filming it in its own spirit, by making it frankly a stagy song-and-dance revue, by kidding the stories instead of lingering over them, the movie is big, brassy fun.
The Flying Karamazov Brothers want to let you in on a little secret. They aren't really brothers. Heck, they aren't really even Russian.