Thursday, June 30, 2022
The tour of the 2018 revival of "My Fair Lady," a romance-less romantic comedy, arrives in Chicago.
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The Greek god Dionysus appears in the Garden State in the guise of Diane, a lesbian permaculture landscape gardener.
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Sunday, June 26, 2022
Most Tarell Alvin McCraney’s plays are more metaphoric, “Choir Boy" is closer, really, to the movie “Moonlight." This is a four-star play, now in Chicago.
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Alice blames herself for her father’s death. She wishes she had not had that last fight. And in the talented Britta Johnson's creation, she needs to know more about his death.
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She's as much a comedy improviser as a magician and now she has a bigger stage to make her signature cocktails appear, vanish and morph into other libations entirely.
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After more than two years in the COVID-19 wilderness, Chicago’s Steep Theatre is back in action and with a new theater and free tickets to boot.
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Fluids drip everywhere in “cullud wattah,” the potent new drama by Erika Dickerson-Despenza about the contamination crisis of Flint, Michigan.
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"Steel Magnolias" has returned. It's a shrewd comedy and a blast from the past, and director Johanna McKenzie Miller doesn’t mess with what works.
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The 75th annual Tony Awards were presented Sunday by the American Theatre Wing at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The winners are ...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:20PMMichael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” earned 11 nominations. Will that translate into 11 wins? What about “Girl From the North Country"?
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The new mainstage revue at Second City, "Do the Right Thing, No Worries If Not," invites the audience into the fun.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:39PM"Grandmas Jukebox" is a legit, original jukebox musical replete with dialogue scenes, fully-fledged characters and a dramatic through-line.
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“American Idol” vocalists Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young are the stars. Nostalgia is a powerful force in the theater but it relies on more truth than this musical currently delivers.
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“The Magnolia Ballet” bills itself as a ghost story, and it’s certainly an immersive, gothic tale of the Old South, a place where, for a young gay Black man, the walls are howling and …
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We often go to the theater to feel we’re not alone in our fears. Here’s that opportunity with unexpected revelations to boot.
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Over the years, its most memorable and acclaimed productions included “The Sparrow,” “Death and Harry Houdini" and the show through which it shot to fame, “The Terrible Tragedy of Pe…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:45AMMolly Hernández is a newcomer to the role of Alice and a delightful addition, given her charming personality and warm, guileless demeanor.
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The Motown group known as The Temptations navigated a truly stunning repertoire of musical styles over a 62-year history.
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Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has hired internally for its top two management positions, the longstanding North Shore venue has announced.
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Having just won a Tony Award, Court Theatre delivers with a blisteringly entertaining new Ron OJ Parson production.
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Early in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic, young Scout Finch starts telling us about the courtroom in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. She does so with the reverence of a chi…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:10PMIt’s worth noting that Chicago has four new musicals trying out this summer, all shooting toward Broadway.
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Monday, May 16, 2022
Lloyd Suh’s play “The Chinese Lady,” now in its Chicago premiere, has a spectacular central performance from Mi Kang.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:25PMNPR's weekly hour-long quiz program will resume live audience recordings this June, hosted by Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal.
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In Gracie Gardner’s two-character play, Athena is a 17-year-old who likes having a warrior moniker. Gardner has written a character study of two smart, self-reflective teenagers with the …
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The new Second City Artistic Advisory Board, announced Tuesday, also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Lynch and Tim Meadows. The theater currently has no artistic director.
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Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play is famous exploration of the pain and black comedy within a damaged, theatrical family, freshly adapted and directed at Steppenwolf by Yasen Peyankov,
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