Friday, April 26, 2024
The Ashley Stewart CEO and best-selling author will speak on business models for change at the national convening in Chicago in June.
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:00PMTony Award® winner and dance icon Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago), who is currently starring in Broadway’s current revival of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, will announce this year’s Chita …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:43AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
In the opening scene of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man at Marriott Theatre, a train car full of traveling salesmen showcase their talent and precision as they fast-talk and sing their wa…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:53PMThere have been several intriguing plays about siblings dealing with loss onstage this year, including Leah Nanako Winkler’s The Brightest Thing in the World at About Face Theatre and the …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:07PMA one-person take on Hamlet starring a famous comedian sounds like a recipe for self-indulgence. (Or the opening premise for a deliberately off-kilter affair, as in the ridiculous and sublim…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:46AMIllinoise, the dance-centric musical adaptation of Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois, opens April 24 at the St. James Theatre, the night of its very first Broadway performance. Directed and c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:24AMSome shows age well, some don’t. You’d think a silly 74-year-old musical comedy like Guys and Dolls, with its cartoonish characters and sitcom plotlines (like, gambler makes a bet he can…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:21AMBrooklyn Laundry is a deceptive show: It begins with a meet-cute and briefly lulls you into the sense that it will unspool as something of a rom-com. But playwright John Patrick Shanley isn�…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:02AMIt’s tempting to say that Neil Simon’s 1963 romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park hasn’t aged well. But even when it premiered on Broadway with Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley as ne…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:43AMUnder the best of circumstances, it would be hard to make this 1983 musical soar. The story by playwright Sybille Pearson about three prosperous white, middle-class couples coping with pregn…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 10:40AMIllinoise moves to Broadway direct from two critically acclaimed sold-out productions at the Park Avenue Armory and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Check out photos of the new Broadway marquee!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMMay dance highlights include Chicago stalwarts Hubbard Street, Cerqua Rivera, Chicago Repertory Ballet, Lucky Plush, and Winifred Haun & Dancers and the Chicago Movement Collective.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMIllinoise, the dance-centric musical adaptation of Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois, opens April 24 at the St. James Theatre, the night of its very first Broadway performance. Directed and c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
The 20-city concert tour will play Seattle, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:48PMIzzard’s dazzling performance holds up a mirror not just to nature, but to ourselves.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, April 22, 2024
On stage, “chemistry” usually refers to a romantic pairing, but in the case of the new musical Hell’s Kitchen, it’s the perfect description for the teacher-pupil bond between Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMSunday, April 21, 2024
Davis led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Britain's Glyndebourne Festival, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera in Chicago.
SOURCE: npr.org at 07:24PMEverybody rejoice! After a whirlwind national tour, the revival of The Wiz, the all-Black retelling of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, celebrated its opening night at the Marq…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Chicago Children’s Theatre’s (CCT) first production, back in 2006, was the Tony Award-nominated A Year With Frog and Toad, created by brothers Robert (music) and Willie Reale (book and l…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:09AMOne of Chicagoland’s best-kept circus secrets is the Triton Troupers Circus, a motley cast of 80-plus circus performers who put on a traditional show every spring in Triton College‘s gym…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:03AMChicago Tap Allstars, a collective of Tap dance artists and organizations brought together by M.A.D.D. Rhythms and Chicago Tap Theatre, commemorates National Tap Dance Day with a weekend…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06AMThursday, April 18, 2024
After years of camaraderie, the two friends are finally opposite each other in Broadway's longest-running musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:02AMThe Tony nominee is playing slick lawyer Billy Flynn in the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMWednesday, April 17, 2024
My first visit to Trap Door Theatre did not disappoint, from the hidden alley entrance to the immediate sense of time travel and disorientation upon entry. For the last show of its 30th anni…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 01:17PMWhat is better than a time travel play? Not much. A rare species in itself, it can only be improved upon by something equally awesome—like centering women, impeccable stage combat, and a r…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:59PMHershey Felder first played Frédéric Chopin at the now-closed Royal George Theatre in 2005—one of several solo shows about great composers that Felder has created over the years (he’s …
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:42PMIn this video, watch as Jinkx Monsoon chats more about her take on Audrey, rejoining the cast of Chicago later this year, and so much more!
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMIt’s tempting to start a review of Beyond the Garden Gate with a comment like, “The fairy tales I grew up with were never like this.” But let’s face it: The fairy tales we grew up wi…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 12:25PMRob Ashford will direct the world premiere from Jason Robert Brown and Taylor Mac at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMForgetting a hookup’s name? Bad. Forgetting your spouse’s name? So bad it requires Old Testament intervention. Hetchman (Scott Danielson) is on a mission to find his lost partner (Da…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:43AMWritten and directed by Grant Batdorff, this satire of spy thrillers for Two Chairs Theatre at the Annoyance begins with a bang: a wry, spot-on parody of those bombastic title sequences popu…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 11:31AMTuesday, April 16, 2024
On this Chicago-themed episode, Rob and J.R. talk to the actor-director duo about staging August Wilson's solo play, 'How I Learned What I Learned,' and check in with arts journalist Mike Da…
SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:26PMAustralia’s leading theatre producer John Frost for Crossroads Live today announced that the acclaimed production of one of Australia’s favourite
SOURCE: AussieTheatre.com at 02:17AMMonday, April 15, 2024
The post CHICAGO heads to Canberra appeared first on Australian Arts Review.
SOURCE: artsreview.com.au at 11:06PMFriday, April 12, 2024
Lennix, known for his work on television’s “The Blacklist” and “Dollhouse” and movies like “The Five Heartbeats” and “Ray,” is a busy man around Chicago these days. He’s …
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2024
Just like families, the places we call home can be chosen. Athletes feel at home on the field and plenty of entertainers of all types declare they feel most comfortable onstage, which allo…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 05:07PMTom Stoppard’s debut 1966 play could be called Waiting for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: it matches Samuel Beckett’s meditation on the meaninglessness of existence with Shakespeare’s p…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 04:48PMThe play Cock, by Mike Bartlett, is ostensibly a show about turning the “all you need is to find a good woman” narrative for gay men on its head. Set in one apartment, the characters, Jo…
SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 03:59PMIn this video, as Robyn chats more about her new gig in Broadway's Chicago.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24PMGregg Edelman is one of an increasingly rare breed - the working Broadway actor. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he's really done it all: ensemble work, supporting roles, leading ro…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 06:36AM 
