MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY It begins with a woman taking a bath. The lighting is low and there are dozens of candles spread about the set. She slowly gets up and dries off, donning a linen s…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER MADE BETTERER AND BETTERER A signature work ripe for revival, the eponymous Lookingglass Alice is back for the holidays and New Year, brilliantly tricked-up with the …
Today, the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's hit musical Chicago will become Broadway's second longest-running show, right behind THE PHANT…
On Nov. 23 at 7 PM, the long-running, Tony-winning revival of Chicago plays its 7,486th performance, surpassing Cats to become the second longest-running show in Broadway history.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on November 23, 2014☆⚑
LYRIC DOES THE BESS THAT IT CAN After two outings to Spain (Don Giovanni and Il Trovatore) and one to Paris (Capriccio), Lyric Opera is bringing audiences something homegrown, composed by an…
An unmissable American classic! By the end of Lyric's Porgy and Bess, I was flabbergasted by how moved I was not just by the stellar quality of the music itself but the humanity of those in…
PERFECT PLACEMENT AND PERPETUAL MOTION Making a too-brief, always welcome return to Chicago's gorgeous Auditorium Theatre (now celebrating its 125th anniversary), Dance Theatre of Harlem nev…
As first speculated here in August, the Chicago Children’s Theater is to get a new ...
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Visceral Dance Chicago, which made a hugely impressive debut here last season, returns to the Harris Theater for Music and Dance with works by such gifted contemporary choreographers as Oh…
Equal parts naughty and nice, Chicago's famed The Second City brings their version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to the Goodman's Owen Theatre, beginning December 5. Entitled Twist Y…
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is expected Saturday night at a fundraising gala for the Chicago Children's Theatre " where he will announce $5 million in new state funding to help the long-itin…
GRINCH AND BEAR IT As with Sweeney Todd, the Grinch is bent on revenge, though his motivation is much murkier. He's your typical green outsider, like Little Shop's plant Audrey II, the Frog …
For nine decades, the Goodman Theatre has been an esteemed anchor of the Chicago theater scene " at once the granddaddy of them all and a serial innovator.
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Hotcha! Chicago, now in its 19th year on Broadway, is celebrating another momentous milestone this weekend—the Tony-winning revival is surpassing Cats to become the second longest-runn…
Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it This weekend's big news POCATELLO begins off-Broadway, …
The fall season official began, but it felt like summer in the lower 80s F, when BroadwayWorld.com, alongside a small group of Filipino journalists, huddled around Tony Award-winning sound d…
Ten ordinary people. Four sleepless days. One truck. The Williams Street Rep is proud to present the Chicago premiere of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical 'Hands on a Hardbody.'
Idle Muse Theatre Company will continue its ninth season with the Chicago premiere of The Talking Cure, by Christopher Hampton and directed by Idle Muse Artistic Director Evan Jackson.The pl…
In 1955, Fred Wranovics, a bartender at the Woodlawn Tap on 55th Street in Hyde Park, bought a Hyde Park joint called the Hi-Hat Lounge. Wranovics decided he might as well add in the empty s…
The Chicago theater community will present a wide variety of festive plays and musicals, as well as dance and concert offerings this Holiday season. In support, the League of Chicago The…
