The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago welcomes Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood to the Ambassador Theatre beginning April 28.
Editor’s note: I had to bow out of reviewing this production due to a massive sinus infection, but the lovely book nerd Jamie Prahl, who is a huge fan of Jane Austen’s, stepped i…
PRUDENCE AND PASSION Offhand, sense and sensibility hardly seem antonyms. As the Brits say, it's a distinction without a difference. But in Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name (her fir…
Irish Theatre of Chicago (formerly Seanachaà Theatre Company) has announced its 2015-16 season, featuring a U.S premiere and two Midwest premieres. The company's first-ever three-show sea…
Brandy Brings Out the Big Guns for Her Broadway Debut in Chicago Pop star Brandy Norwood, better known to her fans simply as "Brandy," is making her Broadway debut as Chicago'…
Saturday | "Melancholy Play, a chamber musical": Piven Theatre Workshop performs a musical version of Sarah Ruhl's play about emotional extremes and almonds. Through June 7 at Noyes Center, …
Last weekend's scandal-ette at the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee was a reminder of the increased difficulty of carving out hard-and-fast categories from the interconnected (not to mentio…
There's a new Roxie in town starting tonight.
Grammy winner Brandy Norwood shares her favorite Whitney memory, her dressing-room must-haves and her signature dance move offstage.
The Chicago theatre for young audiences season will include seven plays, including a world premiere by Nambi E. Kelley about the Civil Rights Movement.
Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood joins the cast of Broadway’s hit musical Chicago tonight (4/28). Chicago is currently playing at the Ambassador Theatre. A Grammy award-winning singe…
The 2015 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning and there are a number of "Chicago connections." The post Tony Award nominations with a Chicago connection appeared first on Ch…
Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news The Tony noms are this morning, Brandy…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical ChicagowelcomesGrammy Award-winner Brandy Norwood making her Broadway debut in the role of Roxie Hart beginning to…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago welcomes Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood to the Ambassador Theatre beginning April 28.
The name on everybody's lips is gonna be...Brandy! Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood will step into the Broadway revival of Chicago as Roxie Hart on April 28. The pop/R&B star will …
Lyric Opera of Chicago's stunning new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel opened on April 12 and continues through May 3 at the Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago. Let…
This darkest of the major musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II fits quite snugly into even the most doom-ridden opera season.
Brandy Norwood, the Grammy-winning R&B-pop star, makes her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart on April 28 in "Chicago."
SISTERS AND SOLDIERS Following their rather loose and unconventional takes on Greek tragedy and Gilbert and Sullivan, The Hypocrites return to a more classic approach with Anton Chekhov's Th…
RECOMMENDED The mythical line between opera and musical theater further fades with Chicago Opera Theater's mounting of "A Coffin in Egypt." Is it really an opera, as advertised? The composer…
Beautiful Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller is honored in her hometown of Chicago with the Sarah Siddons Society's Actress of the Year Award April 27. The evening promises several stand&#…
Sean Graney, who recently returned to Chicago to resume his post as Artistic Director of The Hypocrites, informed the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee that he just learned the theater compa…
ANCIENT LAUGHS TIMES TEN An irresistible mix of Roman "new comedy," commedia dell'arte, and vaudeville, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum rivals The Producers as the funniest mu…