You might think of this piece as the somber underbelly of “Mad Men,” a story of what happens when the go-go music stops.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PM“Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon” is a caper story where both protagonists are Asian Americans who desire not to fall into the “model minority” stereotype.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:27PM“Personality,” a new jukebox musical, is hoping to put up the name Lloyd Price on a Broadway marquee.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMIf the true test of a fine Tony is the song “Maria,” the equivalent for Maria is the final scene of the show.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:17PMThe show, now directed with his typical craft and creativity by Joe Mantello, first titillates its audience with loud, scary music and a theater that immediately plunges into darkness.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00PMThe comedy operation, wherein an actor drinks copious qualities of alcohol for comedic purposes, is facing a unionization demand.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:27PMThe entire Goodman Theatre cast is going with the show, including Mary Beth Fisher as a widow dealing with grief and bereavement.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:55AMItamar Moses' new play at Theater Wit is an entry in the long-standing genre of playwrights writing about selling their souls for a Hollywood dime.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:19PMOur city's theater scene has enough excitement to rival NASCAR or Lolla this summer.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMHere’s the appeal of “MotherFreakingHood!,” a better-than-you-probably-think show: It’s simple. It says, and sings, that you are not alone.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:53PMCourt has put up something with an expansive vision and a directorial approach that respects the material but gently improves upon it.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:46PMHeidi Schreck’s deeply personal work explored how the U.S. Constitution had profoundly influenced the life of an American woman in her mid-40s.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:00PMChicago playwright Joshua Allen has been quietly building something very interesting at Chicago’s growing Raven Theatre.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:37PMThe newly renovated Studebaker Theater on Michigan Avenue has snagged a high-profile Christmas show.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMErnest Shackleton was an adventurer, polar explorer and a man who survived in the Antarctic by drifting on ice floes while eating penguins and dogs.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:12PMTwo-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon is scheduled to return to his Chicago theater home in 2024.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMActor Antonio Edwards Suarez attended a performance by Mikhail Baryshnikov, he tells us, and came to a realization.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMBut this zesty new 2023 production, directed by James Vásquez, has an admirable crackle of the bat.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:07PMThe theater returns to large-scale producing on Navy Pier next season with a new work based on the 2005 concept album "Illinois."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:30PMEither Lorraine Hansberry's genius 1964 play was ahead of its time, or we have slid backwards.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMIn the mid-1980s, Broadway tasked country artist Roger Miller with writing the music for a new adaptation of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:00PMWriters Theatre in Glencoe now has a new artistic director, Braden Abraham.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:00AMTheatre Communications Group, the national organization for non-profit U.S. theater, is coming in June 2024.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:00PMDeeply dedicated to honoring actual events and revealing human truths, “London Road” has so very much to offer.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:40PM“The Porch on Windy Hill” should dial back the lecturing and sloganeering and focus on how music can heal and bring people together.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:20PMHerein, you’ll find some of Sondheim’s greatest songs. I’m going through a bit of an empty-nest crisis, so “Stay With Me” has me at “Don’t you know what’s out there in the wo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:37PMThis hugely enjoyable show is filled with talented kids and helmed by the big-hearted Nick Druzbanski in the role made famous by Jack Black.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:30PMThe theater opened in 2015 and had a string of notable successes, including the long-running “Southern Gothic."
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:15AMThe show based on the Martin Scorsese film has five lyricists and writers, and it feels like all of the writers got to do their own thing.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMWhen you have actors of the quality and appeal of Laura Linney (”Ozark,” of late) and Jessica Hecht (”Breaking Bad”), the two stars of David Auburn’s subtle “Summer, 1976,” an …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:00PMWatching all the kids, many dressed as the Pink Ladies or 1950s rockers, filing into the theater was a fun sight.
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