NEW YORK — In its home base of Chicago, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's studiolike production of Kenneth Lonergan's closely observed and emotionally potent “This Is Our Youth” was an intimate, immersive affair. With the audience seated on both sides of the action, the...
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Theatre at the Center said Wednesday that the actor George Andrew Wolff will take over the role of the taxi driver in their current production, "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." That role originally was played by Bernie Yvon, who was killed in a car accident on Saturday.
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Cooler temperatures and changing leaves might cue the chants of “wait until next year” for Chicago baseball fans, but for theater lovers it's a whole new ballgame. Below are just a few promising names on this fall's roster of shows.
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Friday | "Death Tax": In Lucas Hnath's play, a dying woman is convinced that her nurse and daughter are working to speed up her death in order to avoid paying an estate tax. Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan stars. Through Oct. 12 at Lookingglass Theatre Company, 821 N. Michigan...
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For the first time on such scale in the Midwest, theaters all over Chicago, the suburbs and in Milwaukee will dim their marquee lights prior to showtime.
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SKETCH, IMPROV, STANDUP COMEDY AND VIDEOS"Comedy is more personal than food," Jerry Seinfeld once said when asked whether he believed he was one of the top five comics that ever lived. "Somebody either hits you funny or they don't." This idea crosses my mind at "The S*** Show," a rowdy, monthly showcase at Collaboraction in Wicker...
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The Second City’s UP Comedy Club in Piper’s Alley announced several fall events on Wednesday.
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The occasion for the celebrity infusion was the opening weekend of the new digs for the hopefully immortal iO, longtime resident of Wrigleyville but now situated on Kingsbury Street.
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Jeff Arcuri is a joke machine tonight. As the host of “This Week’s Show” every Thursday at Bar Celona in Wrigleyville, it’s his job to amp up the crowd, and he’s doing it well. “I want to get a tattoo of a cross with my dad’s name and 1956-2014 on...
DANCE
LAURA MOLZAHN COVERS DANCE IN THE CHICAGO AREA Cerqua Rivera Dance is stepping 'In the Depths'
Three women, dressed in slips, get ready to go out for the evening, each examining herself in an invisible mirror and reacting to the process and the prospect.
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The mood was buoyant, the choreography masterful, the dancing accomplished. At any price, Wednesday's performance would have been a winner. At the price of "free," it was astounding. Some heart-swelling civic pride is welcome these days, and the Chicago Dancing Festival's...
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"You get some news, and then it's like: OK, all right—it's a new idea, a new thing," says choreographer Kyle Abraham, talking about the turn of events that inspired his Hubbard Street world premiere, commissioned by the Chicago Dancing Festival.
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"Discontented" doesn't begin to describe the fraught relationships and violent discord of the family in Aloft Circus Arts' restaging of a 2008 show. Despite — or perhaps because of — being tailored to the talents of its entirely new cast, this "Dinner of Our...
BROADWAY
Chris Jones covers the New York theater-
Few longtime observers consider 2013-14 a vintage year for Broadway. So weak was the overall slate that most of the new offerings were outsold by longer-lived shows from previous seasons.
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"This Is Our Youth" starring Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson and Kieran Culkin is currently in previews at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. Chris Jones interviewed the cast in June when the show played Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
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Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro is to be at the helm of Larry David's upcoming Broadway production, entitled "Fish in the Dark."
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NEW YORK — Jefferson Mays, the extraordinary American actor at the core of the very witty new musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" cut his teeth doing the plays of August Strindberg with Anne Bogart. He was great in "Miss Julie" years ago in Kentucky,...
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NEW YORK — Born of the rubble of the Berlin Wall, marginalized, ill-used, rootless and embittered, Hedwig Schmidt surely would never have imagined her tired body would be brought to life on Broadway, no less, by a star of the magnitude of Neil Patrick Harris, a song-and-dance man of...
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NEW YORK - Early in "Aladdin," Disney's new Broadway-musical version of the beloved 1992 animated feature, the chipper street rat has a run-in with the authorities and finds a sword at his throat.
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NEW YORK — “I don't want to be a new kind of married,” howls one of the self-doubting characters in Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's occasionally precious but thoroughly fascinating and intellectually and musically rich new Broadway musical. With Idina Menzel at its...
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In a victory for the well-crafted, the droll and the picaresque, the sleeper and financially struggling Broadway show “A Gentleman Guide to Love & Murder” won the Tony Award on Sunday night for best new musical, beating out the very popular “Beautiful - The Carole King...
BEYOND CHICAGO
THEATER FROM THE AMERICAN MIDWEST TO LONDON'S WEST ENDWith the first rustling of autumn comes the beginning of what is invariably the most exciting season of the theatrical calendar. This year, it's looking a little bit rock 'n' roll — and a roster of compelling women is central to the most intriguing prospects. Here to illuminate the...
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