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Dance can be found in its purest, most unfettered glory on the concert stage. But that is not where it begins and ends. Here's a look at the best dance performances of 2015.
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It was an exceptionally good year on Chicago stages. In fact, my initial list for the "10 best of 2015" contained a solid 60 shows - everything from world premiere plays to classic musicals…
Two of Broadway's most popular performers - Sutton Foster and Brian D'Arcy James - have been named recipients of this year's Actor of the Year Award to be presented by Chicago's Sarah Siddon…
If playwright Bruce Norris should ever decide to run for president (and as we all know, stranger things have happened), he would probably choose to be a churlish independent, running under t…
Early on in "My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra" - the easily charming, unpretentious revue now at Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre that celebrates the man also known as "Ol' Blue Eyes" -…
"The Heir Apparent," David Ives' "update" of a 17th century comedy by Jean-Francois Regnard (now at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater), is simply far too much about far too little. A cautionar…
Actress Claire Danes has been named this year's guest of honor at Steppenwolf Theatre's annual Women in the Arts fundraising luncheon. The event will be held at noon on Feb. 4, 2016 at a loc…
Griffin Theatre will present the Midwest premiere of John Van Druten's "London Wall," the rarely produced romantic drama about working women in 1930s London. It will be directed by Robin Wit…
Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago is presenting its fall concert, "One Root, Many Branches," with works that explore African influence on the culture of Jamaica, Brazil and the U.S. Performance…
"Bel Canto," Lyric Opera of Chicago's first main stage world premiere in more than a decade, was in rehearsal when terrorist attacks upended Paris last month, and it opened Monday night at t…
"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them," wrote Vicki Baum, the woman whose book served as the inspiration for the movie and musical, "Grand Hotel." And that observati…
"Hamilton," the Broadway sensation, will open in Chicago in Sept. 2016.
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When you've got a world premiere by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright you can be sure the casting will be A-list all the way. And so it turns out to be for the Steppenwolf Theatre's debut …
That global musical hit, "The Lion King," remains a beauty - a miraculous flight of imagination and a masterpiece of artistic craft on every level.
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By the age of 16, Brooklyn-born Carol Joan Klein - soon to adopt the professional name of Carole King - was already an accomplished classical pianist, had dated a guy named Neil Sedaka in hi…
Brian Loevner has been named managing producer for Second City Theatricals, it was announced today ...
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MARK KENNEDY | ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK " Michael Flatley’s ailing legs will apparently be ...
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1. A ROARING GOOD TIME Disney’s “The Lion King” opens Dec. 4 at the Cadillac ...
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Musicals don’t always have to celebrate individuality and the triumph of the human spirit. Sometimes ...
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"Fool Me Twice, Deja Vu," Second City's first new mainstage revue since a serious fire engulfed much of the company's Wells Street home this past September, is both confounding and disappoin…
After 12 years as artistic director of Theatre at the Center, William Pullinsi is stepping down. Linda Fortunato will succeed him.
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Call it the latest chilling example of art imitating life, and life imitating art. And then imagine the frayed nerves of the artists who, barely a day after the terrorist attacks in Paris, a…
"A Christmas Story: The Musical" - now in an aptly high-spirited, warm-hearted, gently subversive production at Aurora's Paramount Theatre - is an intimate family story injected with great b…
1. ROARING HOLIDAY FUN The 24th annual “Wreathing of the Lions” takes place Friday at ...
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A program note for "Sherlock" - the high-styled Canadian-bred show with a script by Greg Kramer that riffs on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - gets right to the point: "Late 19th cent…
