Hershey Felder, the writer-actor-pianist whose biographies of composers have a broad following in Chicago, is returning to town. But he's not coming to his usual haunt, the Royal George Thea…
The words "Chicago" and "Philadelphia" conjure up immediate images across all the human senses. In theater and movies, the musical Chicago and the movie The Philadelphia Story (or maybe Rock…
SAVED BY YOUR SERVANT Like manna from the heavens, it comes when we've never needed to laugh more: The invaluable comic master P.G. Wodehouse returns from the Roaring Twenties to the rescue …
THE DIS-ASSEMBLY LINE Some stories can't stand on their own and for very good reason: They tell so many others. Much as The Wire dealt with Baltimore's failing institutions and August …
According to YNetNews, Israeli singer Shiri Maimon has been offered the role of Roxie in Chicago on Broadway. The negotiations are still ongoing, but are expected to end with the name on eve…
With the national tour of Stephen Karam's The Humans, there's a amazing melding of Karam's script, Mantello's direction and the excellent production team and cast accurately portraying the f…
Weiss did not respond to a request for comment, but she told friends she was notified weeks ago that her position was being eliminated. Weiss had been covering theater and dance for the Sun-…
Putting together one musical is hard. Wrangling multiple original productions from different creators and producers sounds like a nightmare, but it's how Underscore Theatre Company advances …
With a 21-year run and counting, Chicago is the longest-running American musical on Broadway (Phantom is British, if you’re wondering). At BroadwayCon 2018, Chicago debuted a new mu…
"I really believe in the honesty of being on stage"the word 'being' being key. If there's a character to imbue that it is at the very heart of the performer as opposed to something placed on…
THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS "No one will ever love you as much as I do — so shut up and stop looking for more." A harsher hope-killing "reassurance" should not be imagined. That's the curse/…
Chicago the Musical has released the official video for "All That Jazz" to celebrate 21 years on Broadway!
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Watching John Mulaney do stand-up is like watching a pitch meeting for a multicamera, multicharacter sketch show, where an overworked but energetic and eager young writer is running through …
