Saturday, October 14, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
This new show relies for its appeal mostly on the rapport of its two contrasting stars, and the edgy material took guts.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PM“We tell the Louis Armstrong story through each of his four wives,” star James Monroe Iglehart says. “He took a long time to understand himself.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:06PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
Kudos to the show for delivering the full-blown experience, but it struggles to build a narrative we care about.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:24PMThe year 1957, the setting of the final scene of “Merrily,” is all about possibility. But we already know friends have disappointed friends.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Salons are usually havens for gossip, always good for a laugh. But as we see in "Jaja’s African Hair Braiding," they can also be safe spaces.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMThis is the '90s story of handsome serial killer Patrick Bateman, with a score by Duncan Sheik, staged right there in front of you.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:25PMMonday was an especially good night for the Goodman Theatre, winning for “The Cherry Orchard” and “The Who’s Tommy.”
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:30AMMonday, October 2, 2023
Playwright Sarah Ruhl doesn’t just look at the relationship between Eurydice and Orpheus but at that between Eurydice and her dead father.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:48PMSaturday, September 30, 2023
It wasn’t so much that this three-act script was a literary masterpiece as it was a blueprint for thrilling theatrical storytelling.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMThursday, September 28, 2023
Wagner’s fantastical 1843 opera is about a sea captain fated to sail forever. Director Christopher Alden’s production doesn't offer him much hope.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
This is a knockout show, as hilarious as it is cutting and as emotionally warmhearted as it is politically potent.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMPlaywright Pearl Cleage's comedy of manners pokes gentle fun at a society with Black debutants in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1960s.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PM“Boop! The Betty Boop Musical” is slated to play from Nov. 19 to Dec. 24 at Chicago’s CIBC Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AMMonday, September 25, 2023
Martyna Majok's play is staged in the round and for the first minutes, the characters of B and G circle each other in a rapid-fire series of sparing scenes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMSaturday, September 23, 2023
This promising new show taps into the true-crime story of Lawrencia “Bambi” Bembenek, a one-time Milwaukee cop and Playboy bunny, with music by Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMThursday, September 21, 2023
In Jim Cartwright’s play, the struggling title character escapes from her chaotic life into a world of songbooks.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
Writer Pearl Cleage's play is about characters trying to hold on to their idealism, and their relationships, even as conflict lurks around every corner.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:30PMMonday, September 18, 2023
Friday, September 15, 2023
First-timers got special buttons when Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the Founding Fathers opened back in the Loop Thursday night. It's hard for me to put myself in their place.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:16AMThursday, September 14, 2023
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
He told the Tribune that he was proud that the company had not hibernated during the pandemic, but created risky but successful projects including a drive-through production of “Twilight: …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:45PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
Saturday, September 9, 2023
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
A pre-Broadway tryout of a musical version of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis movie “Death Becomes Her” is coming in 2024 to the Cadillac Palace Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:50AMChicago theater-goers can also look forward to operas at Lyric, “POTUS” at Steppenwolf and a "Twelfth Night" transported to the Caribbean.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:45AMThursday, August 31, 2023
You worry hard here for Madame Rose, disappointed in life and love. And you sure as heck feel for June and Louise.
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