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Review: A full-throated 'Parade' marches into the CIBC Theatre with a fresh emphasis on human fragility www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/r...
Review: A full-throated ‘Parade’ marches into the CIBC Theatre with a fresh emphasis on human fragility
The first national tour of “Parade” is far superior to the 2023 Broadway revival that spawned it.
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August 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Review: A full-throated 'Parade' marches into the CIBC Theatre with a fresh emphasis on human fragility www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/r...
Review: A full-throated ‘Parade’ marches into the CIBC Theatre with a fresh emphasis on human fragility
The first national tour of “Parade” is far superior to the 2023 Broadway revival that spawned it.
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August 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Anna D. Shapiro is stepping away from Steppenwolf for health reasons www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/01/a...
Anna D. Shapiro is stepping away from Steppenwolf for health reasons
Steppenwolf’s former artistic director will no longer direct “Amadeus” in its upcoming 50th anniversary season. Shapiro will be replaced by former Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Fal…
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July 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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'Downton Abbey' star will bring her play about Ava Gardner to Chicago www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/06/m...
‘Downton Abbey’ star will bring her play about Ava Gardner to Chicago
Elizabeth McGovern, best known for playing Lady Cora in “Downton Abbey,” stars in the show based on a series of real-life interviews given by the Hollywood actress Ava Gardner.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Review: 'Diana' at Theo Theatre was no ordinary opening night www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/02/r...
Review: ‘Diana’ at Theo Theatre was no ordinary opening night
The sense of tribute to the late director Fred Anzevino outweighs everything else in this local premiere of the musical about Diana, Princess of Wales. This is a special production of a so-so show.
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June 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Editorial: The hits just keep coming from Chicago’s disastrous parking meter deal www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/20/c...
Editorial: The hits just keep coming from Chicago’s disastrous parking meter deal
In the darkest days of COVID-19, Lori Lightfoot chose compassion over citations. Chicago Parking Meters LLC sued the city in response.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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CHRIS JONES: What the Tony nominations got right — and wrong www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/01/2...
CHRIS JONES: What the Tony nominations got right — and wrong
A cautionary tale: Do great work in a bad production and Tony nominators likely will pass you by.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Fred Anzevino, founder of Theo Ubique Theatre, dies at 67 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/29/f...
Fred Anzevino, founder of Theo Ubique Theatre, dies at 67
His theater’s jewel-box productions of Broadway musicals — first in Rogers Park, then on the Evanston border — set the standard for storefront musical theater in Chicago.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Review: Epic 'Berlin' at Court Theatre pictures the end of a cultural paradise www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/r...
Review: Epic ‘Berlin’ at Court Theatre pictures the end of a cultural paradise
As adapted by the Chicago writer Mickle Maher and directed by Charles Newell, this world premiere comes from a graphic novel by Jason Lutes and is a significant new work of theater.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Review: Epic 'Berlin' at Court Theatre pictures the end of a cultural paradise www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/28/r...
Review: Epic ‘Berlin’ at Court Theatre pictures the end of a cultural paradise
As adapted by the Chicago writer Mickle Maher and directed by Charles Newell, this world premiere comes from a graphic novel by Jason Lutes and is a significant new work of theater.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Review: In 'Just In Time' on Broadway, Bobby Darin's story gives Jonathan Groff a chance to shine www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/26/r...
Review: In ‘Just In Time’ on Broadway, Bobby Darin’s story gives Jonathan Groff a chance to shine
Watch out, Hugh Jackman! Jonathan Groff is coming for your crown as Broadway’s greatest showman. And he’s got the slickest attraction in town as ammo.
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April 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Review: With 'Stranger Things' on Broadway, screen adaptations enter a new dimension www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/r...
Review: With ‘Stranger Things’ on Broadway, screen adaptations enter a new dimension
The Netflix sci-fi series has been adapted for the stage in part by the Duffer Brothers, with stunning special effects and a prequel story set in 1959 Indiana.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Editorial: Pope Francis' legacy of mercy and compassion is instructive for us all www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/e...
Editorial: Pope Francis’ legacy of mercy and compassion is instructive for us all
As the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis’ leadership was critical in maintaining the faith’s relevance and importance.
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April 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Review: 'Translations' at Writers Theatre plumbs the depths of a story of 19th century Ireland www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/17/r...
Review: ‘Translations’ at Writers Theatre plumbs the depths of a story of 19th century Ireland
This gorgeous staging of Brian Friel’s play has a cast that pulls you fully into the struggles their characters are going through. This is real immersive theater.
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April 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Review: 'John Proctor is the Villain' on Broadway reinvents 'The Crucible' for today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/14/r...
Review: ‘John Proctor is the Villain’ on Broadway reinvents ‘The Crucible’ for today
Arthur Miller’s play has long been a part of American high school classrooms. This new play, set in a Georgia classroom, stars Sadie Sink as a version of Miller’s Abigail.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Chicago Shakes 2025-26 season: Billie Jean King play and 'Brokeback Mountain' musical www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/c...
Chicago Shakes 2025-26 season: Billie Jean King play and ‘Brokeback Mountain’ musical
Also coming to Navy Pier for a very full next season, a Halloween show, “Much Ado About Nothing” for the holidays and a return for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Review: 'Sondheim’s Old Friends' on Broadway is a don't-miss chance to revisit his music www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/08/r...
Review: ‘Sondheim’s Old Friends’ on Broadway is a don’t-miss chance to revisit his music
With a company that includes stars like Bernadette Peters who first sang in Stephen Sondheim’s musicals, shows like this won’t come around again.
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April 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Review: In 'The Book of Grace' at Steppenwolf, a Texas family hurtles toward a reckoning www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/07/r...
Review: In ‘The Book of Grace’ at Steppenwolf, a Texas family hurtles toward a reckoning
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has forged a play about the toll that doing a job like intercepting migrants inevitably takes on a man and his family.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Review: In 'Good Night, and Good Luck' on Broadway, here's George Clooney with an urgent bulletin www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/03/r...
Review: In ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on Broadway, here’s George Clooney with an urgent bulletin
To his credit, he disappears into the role of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, on stage here in a prescient McCarthy-era story masterfully told by director David Cromer.
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April 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Review: 'Sunny Afternoon' at Chicago Shakespeare chases the soul of Ray Davies and The Kinks www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/30/r...
Review: ‘Sunny Afternoon’ at Chicago Shakespeare chases the soul of Ray Davies and The Kinks
This jukebox music plays tribute to the great British Invasion band, now in its North American debut in Chicago. The cast is led by a knockout Ray Davies.
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March 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Review: 'Picture of Dorian Gray' on Broadway stars Sarah Snook in a production unlike anything you've seen ... www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/27/r...
Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ on Broadway stars Sarah Snook in a production unlike anything you’ve seen
The actress known for her work on “Succession” is the powerful solo performer in this very digital adaptation of the Oscar Wilde horror story.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Review: 'Othello' on Broadway stars a muted Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal on fire www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/23/r...
Review: ‘Othello’ on Broadway stars a muted Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal on fire
Denzel Washington is the star of the show but he plays his Othello with a remoteness that can throw off the play.
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March 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Review: 'Operation Mincemeat' on Broadway is a very British parody of a secret WWII mission www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/20/r...
Review: ‘Operation Mincemeat’ on Broadway is a very British parody of a secret WWII mission
A hit in London, it’s an unusual pick for Broadway, making a musical comedy out of the true story of a plot to fool the Nazis.
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March 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Review: Steppenwolf’s ‘Purpose’ has moved to Broadway, all Chicago guns blazing
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has written a play set around the table of a fictionalized version of Rev. Jesse Jackson. As directed by Phylicia Rashad with a Steppenwolf ensemble cast, it puts the Chicago…
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March 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Review: A Chicago 'La Bohème' at Lyric Opera turns winter into spring into winter www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/16/r...
Review: A Chicago ‘La Bohème’ at Lyric Opera turns winter into spring into winter
Director Melanie Bacaling’s staging certainly has its heart more in April than March, especially given the presence of a swath of Uniting Voices of Chicago singers joining the Lyric Opera Cho…
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March 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM