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Much has changed since Arthur Laurents penned his rueful romantic comedy "The Time of the Cuckoo" in 1952.
Playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents never looks back. That may be why last week's celebration at the New York Public Library of the 50th anniversary of his drama "Time of the Cuckoo"…
I like the droll little note from Stephen Sondheim that accompanies "Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim" (Nonesuch), the hugely ambitious, often fascinating and from time to time irritating new t…
Richard Dresser's "Rounding Third," now in its world premiere at Skokie's Northlight Theatre, is so fuzzy and warmhearted--and at the same time so perfectly laced with just the right degree …
On the big screen, "Showgirls" was an unmitigated flop. So why not re-enact it in the basement of a downtown theater. At midnight. And use sock puppets as the actors.
That's SAVION, not SAVIAN...
Some of the most intriguing moments in Tuesday's Shubert Theatre opening of "The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?"--Robert Dubac's "one-man, many voices" show--occurred after the actor took his curtain calls.
Dubac didn't just return to the stage for a brief schmooze with the audience and, as he engagingly confessed, some shameless hawking of his CD. After some deftly controlled banter, he posed this telling question: "How many of you have ever seen live theater before?"
'I've only seen the Stephen Sondheim musical once, but I think it's pretty accurate in regard to Seurat," said Gloria Groom, the David and Mary Winton Green curator in the European Painting …
Art isn't easy.
What do you do after winning a Tony for best actress? If you're Heather Headley, you leave Broadway behind, move to Illinois and release "This Is Who I Am," an R&B album that reflects both y…
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. That's perhaps why George Wendt--a self-identified Sox fan--appeared at a recent Cubs game.
Funny comment at the end about his Broadway plans...
From "Show Boat" and "South Pacific" to "West Side Story" and "Miss Saigon," the history of American musicals could easily be written as a history of race, racial relations and the complex nature of interracial romance.
"Comfortable Shoes," the vibrant, highly polished musical that received its world premiere Sunday at the Royal George Theatre, fits very neatly into that history as it spins the thinly veiled true story of the successful Las Vegas performer Clint Holmes--the son of a black American jazz musician father and a white, British-born opera singer mother.
Clint Holmes' show "Comfortable Shoes."
Walk into Steppenwolf Theatre's radiant, revelatory and deeply musical new production of "The Time of Your Life"--William Saroyan's deceptively dreamy 1939 portrait of America, as brilliantl…
It is no overstatement to say that almost all of what we see in Chicago theater today can be traced back to a petite Cockney firebrand by the name of Joan Littlewood.
With 16 nominations apiece, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire lead this year's contenders for the 34th annual Joseph Jefferson Awards.
Some familiar names among the nominees, including Chita Rivera, Ann Reinking, Stephen R. Buntrock, Jenny Bacon, and Jeffrey Sweet.
Pamela Sue Fox might be the only performer who partly credits a burglar for her career in cabaret.
Interview with Michael John LaChiusa.
Now in one of its first regional theater productions, "The Guys" is being presented collectively here by the Goodman Theatre and Northlight Theatre. Directed by Robert Falls, it stars Mary B…
Jenna Elfman in "Sweet Charity," the local debut of "The Lion King" and a new musical by Jonathan Larson are among the highlights of the 2003 "The Broadway in Chicago" series.
The show, which had its pre-Broadway debut in Chicago in 1999, has now returned to the Cadillac Palace Theatre in a national touring company incarnation.
