Chicago theater openings for the week of May 3-9
Picking the upcoming opening nights.
Picking the upcoming opening nights.
On Tuesday April 30th, 2013, members of the Broadway Company of Chicago joined forces with Sing For Your Seniors to bring a very special performance to the seniors at Encore Senior Center. …
Patti Issues, Ben Rimalower's acclaimed solo show about his lifelong love of Patti LuPone and his own relationship with his gay father, has extended its New York run to June, with additi…
"The Phantom of the Opera," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that has entertained multitudes of Chicagoans over the last two decades, is returning to Chicago.
Members of the cast of Chicago’s Book of Mormon performed a sold out cabaret benefit for BC/EFA and Chicago House. Â The event, which included Nic Rouleau, Ben Platt, Syesha Mercado,…
With abundant nominations for two productions first seen here " the Cyndi Lauper musical and the revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" " the city's theater scene again proves it can ta…
LEAVE IT TO CHILDREN’S THEATER TO MAKE THE BIGGEST STATEMENT OF ALL The biggest opening in Chicago last week was the behemoth pre-Broadway spectacle Big Fish, but right across to…
An Australian tribute show to the Bee Gees has been booked for July at the Broadway Playhouse, the mid-sized Broadway in Chicago venue located just off Michigan Avenue behind Water Tower …
Summer 2013 will bring a wealth of new works to Chicago stages, closing out this season with some of the most exciting theater in the country, and holding Chicago's place as a leader on the …
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company had a very good New York morning Tuesday with three of its ensemble members scoring 2013 Tony nominations: Tracy Letts and Amy Morton for their work in …
Directed and adapted by Hershey Felder from a book by Mona Golubek and Lee Cohen, it's the true story of Golubek's mother, Lisa Jura, who at age 13 escaped from Vienna to London just after t…
For Anything Goes, Roundabout has given us not only a stellar leading lady in Rachel York, but a most impressive cast of supporting performers with Broadway cred as well.
BLIZZARD TALE In meteorology, the phenomena known as Lake Effect occurs when a cold system glides over the warmer water of a large lake and dumps huge amounts of precipitation, usually snow,…
PLOUGHED UNDER BYÂ GOOD INTENTIONS AND BADÂ SONGWRITING What a great idea: Create modern folk songs to represent Americans whose voices have been given short shrift (or ploughed under) b…
RECOMMENDED A two-act playlist of familiar tunes, an average production of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” dusts off your great grandad’s old gramophone for a quaint fe…
The core of Othello is its base emotions of love, ambition and betrayal " and thanks to gloriously haunting music, flawless choreography and the magnificent Joffrey dancers, Lar Lubovitch's …
Lucky Plush Productions is attracting attention well beyond the Windy City. The company makes its Cleveland debut this week at the Allen Theatre in "The Better Half," a one-act wor…
Anything Goes is pure escapist enjoyment. From Cole Porter's classic songs to Kathleen Marshall's precise tap choreography, you'll be grinning in your seat. Nostalgia is powerful, and as ma…
The year of Bubblegum and the dead. My first impression upon walking into the Chicago installment of the Comic and Entertainment Expo (also known as C2E2) was that I had died and gone Kiddie…
FAUST IN SPACE Just because I recommend Trap Door's latest production doesn't mean that I understand it. Core of the PUDEL (pronounced "poodle") is an Avant Garde/Experimental/Movement Theat…
Select members of the Chicago cast of “Book of Mormon” will perform in a one-night-only cabaret fundraiser, Monday, April 29 at 7:30pm, at The Laugh Factory, 3175 North Broadway.…
With The Silent Language, TUTA Theatre provides exceptional sensory delight for children and adults alike, providing an experience you can't get anywhere else. It's well worth a trip to the …
Select members of the Chicago cast of “Book of Mormon” will perform in a one-night-only cabaret fundraiser, Monday, April 29 at 7:30pm, at The Laugh Factory, 3175 North Broadway.…
And they said the gentle art of literary criticism was dead, confined to irrelevance. Not this week, gentle reader. Not in Chicago. Not in the heat of L'affaire de Shteir. What book review i…
PORTER IS THE ONE WHO CARRIES THIS SHOW H.M.S. Titanic, they say, was unsinkable, but the S.S. American " the setting for Cole Porter's Anything Goes, his biggest hit before Kiss Me Ka…