The League of Chicago Theatres has announced that Jackalope Theatre Company is the recipient of the 2015 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theatre Award. This is the ninth year of the award, whic…
BLUES IN THE NIGHT Side Man is a superb title. It fits the story/situation splendidly. Warren Leight's 1999 Tony-winning memory play is narrated by a son named Clifford, its subject his jazz…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musicalChicagojustwelcomed Grammy Award-winnerBrandy Norwood, who madeher Broadway debut in the role of Roxie Hart. She wi…
RECOMMENDED The brilliance of writer/composer/lyricist and Tony nominee Paul Gordon, the tremulous set design of Kevin Depinet, and Donald Holder's mystic lighting, guided by director Barbar…
Click for photos from Brandy Norwood’s first performance in Chicago on April 30, 2015 at the Ambassador Theatre, and the post-show party at David Burke Fabrick.
Check out TheaterMania's photos of the Grammy winner's debut curtain call.
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago welcomes Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood to the Ambassador Theatre beginning April 28.
Editor’s note: I had to bow out of reviewing this production due to a massive sinus infection, but the lovely book nerd Jamie Prahl, who is a huge fan of Jane Austen’s, stepped i…
PRUDENCE AND PASSION Offhand, sense and sensibility hardly seem antonyms. As the Brits say, it's a distinction without a difference. But in Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name (her fir…
Irish Theatre of Chicago (formerly Seanachaà Theatre Company) has announced its 2015-16 season, featuring a U.S premiere and two Midwest premieres. The company's first-ever three-show sea…
Brandy Brings Out the Big Guns for Her Broadway Debut in Chicago Pop star Brandy Norwood, better known to her fans simply as "Brandy," is making her Broadway debut as Chicago'…
Saturday | "Melancholy Play, a chamber musical": Piven Theatre Workshop performs a musical version of Sarah Ruhl's play about emotional extremes and almonds. Through June 7 at Noyes Center, …
Last weekend's scandal-ette at the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee was a reminder of the increased difficulty of carving out hard-and-fast categories from the interconnected (not to mentio…
There's a new Roxie in town starting tonight.
Grammy winner Brandy Norwood shares her favorite Whitney memory, her dressing-room must-haves and her signature dance move offstage.
The Chicago theatre for young audiences season will include seven plays, including a world premiere by Nambi E. Kelley about the Civil Rights Movement.
Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood joins the cast of Broadway’s hit musical Chicago tonight (4/28). Chicago is currently playing at the Ambassador Theatre. A Grammy award-winning singe…
The 2015 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning and there are a number of "Chicago connections." The post Tony Award nominations with a Chicago connection appeared first on Ch…
Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news The Tony noms are this morning, Brandy…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical ChicagowelcomesGrammy Award-winner Brandy Norwood making her Broadway debut in the role of Roxie Hart beginning to…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago welcomes Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood to the Ambassador Theatre beginning April 28.
The name on everybody's lips is gonna be...Brandy! Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood will step into the Broadway revival of Chicago as Roxie Hart on April 28. The pop/R&B star will …
Lyric Opera of Chicago's stunning new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel opened on April 12 and continues through May 3 at the Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago. Let…
This darkest of the major musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II fits quite snugly into even the most doom-ridden opera season.