Ah… 1960. Smack-dab in the middle of post-war prosperity and (unknowingly) on the brink of enormous change. Has Broadway ever brimmed with more confidence or more cultural clout? Poised roughly […]
The Athenaeum Center Theatre was packed last Wednesday night with a near-capacity crowd eager to welcome Broadway legend Lea Salonga to Chicago in her show Stage, Screen and Everything in […]
It’s storm season these days, with summer squalls and August tempests hitting town with blustery regularity. But a cyclone of a different sort blew into Ravinia last Friday night, when […]
Unless you are a theater nerd (guilty) or above a “certain age” (ahem, also guilty), you may not know that before they were global mega-stars, Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett […]
The energy in the Goodman Theatre’s larger Albert Theatre was palpable even before Monday’s premiere of The Color Purple began, and it built upon itself as the evening progressed towards […]
Liz Callaway came home last night to deliver a love letter. Not a private note, but a public tribute on the Studebaker Theater stage, where she sang the works of […]
Move over, Marilyn McCoo… step aside, Nena… there’s a new balloon song in the air. A whole bunch of ’em, actually, at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where they’re producing the […]
“For not only one enemy has risen up against us to destroy us, but in every generation they rise up to destroy us….” That stark bit of liturgy—the V’hi She’amdah—is […]
Not since gin and vermouth first met ice has any cocktail sparkled so purely, so perfectly, so powerfully as Porchlight Theatre’s crazy collision with a fateful iceberg, Titanique, now running […]
Last December, Seven Thirty Theatre and Katydid Productions presented a production of Dreamgirls—the great American musical about the Motown experience—at the Studebaker Theater. The show was well received and so […]
Has there ever been a more frequently adapted story than Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol? From Reginald Owen and Alastair Sim down to George C. Scott, Albert Finney, Patrick […]
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