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Virtual Opera: TWILIGHT: GODS (Lyric Opera of Chicago)
PARK YOURSELF AT HOME WITH PURE GOLD Leave it to Yuval Sharon (pronounced you-vahl sha-rhone). I’ve seen all of the L.A.-born wunderkind’s Los Angeles productions, and this opera re-thinker stages better and with more imagination than most opera directors combined. I found a few of his pieces musically inaccessible, but man oh man, can this…
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Virtual Theater: AND AWAY WE STARED (Trap Door in Chicago)
GET CAUGHT IN THIS TRAP DOOR Bob Wilson, Maryam Abdi, Dennis Bisto, Emily Nichelson, Keith Surney, David Lovejoy In the absence of humans, the stage has gained the ability to put on mechanized performances to please only itself. Using text from the works of Charles Mee, Gertrude Stein, and Matei Vişniec (with translations by. Adam J. Sorkin and Lidia…
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Chicago Theater: RAVEN THEATRE’S 2021-22 SEASON
Chicago’s Raven Theatre returns with live theater with the announcement of its 2021-22 season, featuring three productions previously postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new season also marks Raven’s transition to an Equity theatre company. Raven Theatre’s 2021-22 Season October 27 – December 12, 2021 The Last Pair of Earlies – World Premiere! By Joshua Allen Directed by Tyla…
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Theater: MAMMA MIA! (Music Theater Works in Skokie)
GREAT MUSIC. GREAT THEATER. THE WORKS. Music Theater Works will present Mamma Mia! at the North Shore Center For The Performing Arts in Skokie, their new residence, from August 19, 2021 to August 29, 2021. Music Theater Works is a professional non-profit theater company based in Wilmette, Illinois featuring a colorful repertoire including operetta, the…
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Chicago Theatre: ATHENAEUM THEATRE (Summer Season)
THE ATHENAEUM THEATRE IS BACK THIS SUMMER WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENT ON ITS HISTORIC STAGES Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago’s oldest continuously operating Off-Loop theatre is back, with something for everyone: from comedy to theatre for all ages, to dance, to multiple live orchestra events and more. Athenaeum Theatre 2936 N. Southport Ave for tickets…
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Theater: COOKING WITH BUBBIE (A New Musical at the Skokie Theatre, Chicagoland Area)
An original musical, Cooking with Bubbie begins its national tour in Skokie, Illinois, and will travel the country before setting in for a New York run. At a “taping” of her fictional TV cooking show, everyone’s favorite Jewish Grandmother, “The Bubbie” entertains you with an old-fashioned variety show with dancers, comedy sketches, and fourteen original songs…
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Opera Season Announced: CHICAGO OPERA THEATER (2021-22)
Fresh on the heels of a high-stakes digital season, Chicago Opera Theater returns with in-person performances for its 2021-22 Season. The company’s commitment to showcasing new voices, fresh takes, and different styles of opera will be on full display in a varied season of premieres and high-profile debuts. ####################################### CARMEN Music by Georges Bizét; libretto…
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Theater: STORIES UNDER THE SUN (PlayMakers Laboratory)
PlayMakers Laboratory’s STORIES UNDER THE SUN Tours Chicago Neighborhoods This Summer Through Night Out in the Parks PlayMakers Laboratory  is pleased to present  Stories Under the Sun, a series of free, family-friendly performances presented across the city this summer through the Chicago Park District’s  Night Out in the Parks  initiative. Performed in the style of PML’s much-lauded sketch comedy…
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Pre-Broadway Run: PARADISE SQUARE, A NEW MUSICAL (Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre)
Paradise Square, A New Musical, sets pre-Broadway run in Chicago November 2-December 5, 2021 at Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre; opens March 20, 2022 at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre Paradise Square is an original musical from a creative team that includes Moisés Kaufman, Bill T. Jones, Craig Lucas and Black 47 singer Larry Kirwan. It will…
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Virtual Theater: WHERE WE STAND (Steppenwolf in Chicago)
Steppenwolf NOW Concludes First Virtual Season with Where We Stand A Filmed Play By Donnetta Lavinia Grays Directed by Tamilla Woodard Featuring Donnetta Lavinia Grays Streaming June 16 – August 31, 2021 A Remarkable Storytelling Tour-de-Force about Community and Accountability Donnetta Lavinia Grays in Where We Stand. Photo by Joan Marcus, courtesy of WP Theater….
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Theater: NORTHLIGHT THEATRE’S 2021-22 SEASON (Chicagoland)
NORTHLIGHT THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 2021-22 SEASON SONGS FOR NOBODIES By Joanna Murray-Smith Directed by Rob Lindley Music Direction by Andra Velis Simon Featuring Bethany Thomas September 23 – October 31, 2021 This tour-de-force performance celebrates the iconic work of Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas. Share in the unexpected encounters…
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Theater: THE COMPLETE SONDHEIM @ 90 ROUNDTABLE (Porchlight Music Theatre)
CELEBRATING SONDHEIM While we were all prepared to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday in 2020, and all of his accomplishments up until then, along comes COVID, which not only shut down Broadway (including the revival of Company, which had pandemic insurance, if you can believe that!), but also halted all of those Sondheim parties and…
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Opera: LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO’S 2021|22 SEASON
Tickets now on sale for Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2021|22 Season Call 312-827-5600 or visit lyricopera.org Here are the shows: NEW PRODUCTION Verdi MACBETH Sung in Italian with projected English texts September 17, 23m, 30, October 3m, 6m, 9, 2021 Lyric’s riveting season-opener is the inaugural production of Music Director Enrique Mazzola’s tenure, and a brand-new…
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Broadway-Bound: THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (A New Musical)
Broadway-Bound THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, with music by Sir Elton John (Disney’s The Lion King, Billy Elliot), lyrics by Shaina Taub (Twelfth Night at the Public Theatre), and book by Paul Rudnick and Kate Wetherhead will play a pre-Broadway, world premiere engagement July 19, 2022 – August 21, 2022, at Broadway In Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre. The…
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Virtual Theater Review: THE LAST MATCH (Writers Theatre)
SERVE. SET. MATCH. WINNER. Finally! A virtual theater production that actually feels like I’m in a theater. Not only that, but Writers’ production of Anna Ziegler’s The Last Match is intuitively directed as theater-as-cinema by Keira Fromm, and ferociously acted by a perfectly cast pile-driving ensemble. Here’s more proof for the world to see how…
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Virtual Music: BEYOND THE ARIA FINALE WITH JOYCE DIDONATO (Harris Theater, Chicago)
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Theater Review: GOODS (Artemisia Theatre in Chicago)
GOODS AND READY Family. Waste. Refugees. Class. Climate Change. All these and more fly off today’s headlines, but like a genie in a magic lamp, playwright Lauren Ferebee has fit them all — and more — inside a tiny capsule moving through the universe, where two American women have been collecting space trash for twenty…
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Virtual Theater: TITANIC (SCENES FROM THE BRITISH WRECK COMMISSIONER’S INQUIRY, 1912) (Court Theatre in Chicago)
Chicago’s amazing Court Theatre is presenting its next play digitally — the world can now see why this is such a remarkable company. Owen McCafferty’s Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912) is a survivors’ story fraught with intrigue, bravery, and human frailty, telling the story of the sinking of the RMS Titanic using verbatim…
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Virtual Theater: THE LAST FIVE YEARS 20TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION (Jason Robert Brown, Daisy Prince, Norbert Leo Butz, Lauren Kennedy and BJ Jones from Northlight Theatre, Chicago)
A 20th Anniversary reunion event for Northlight Theatre’s world premiere of The Last Five Years — featuring performances and conversation with playwright Jason Robert Brown, director Daisy Prince, and original cast members Norbert Leo Butz and Lauren Kennedy — begins online this Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 6:30pm CST for free on The Northlight YouTube channel. On May 23, 2001, a brand-new musical opened at Northlight…
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Chicago Theater: SECURITY (Starring Eric Roberts; Kane Rep)
Beginning tonight, April 10, 2021, Chicago’s Kane Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere online production of Hammaad Chaudry’s Security, directed by Executive Producer Ansley Valentine, premieres online April 10-May 2, 2021 (with plans for an in-person production when it is safe). The cast includes Academy Award and three-time Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts (Brian) and Harsh J. Gagoomal (Riaz). A 17 year old…
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