Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog
Cirque du Soleil and "Kooza": Exceeding expectations
Tony winner coming to the Goodman
Adriane Lenox has been cast in the Goodman Theatre's production of 'Ruined'...
"Gutenberg! The Musical!": A spoof you can't quite believe
You're off the hook and on the doughnuts, Tracy
If you ran into the playwright Tracy Letts at the recent Tony Awards, you could see he had that unsettled look of a student out partying despite a paper due the next morning. Even as Letts was accepting the myriad...
Nathan Lane headed back to Chicago? And Bebe Neuwirth?
New York Post columnist Michael Riedel reports this morning that Bebe Neuwirth will play Mortitia in the upcoming musical version of "The Addams Family," ...
Second City to expand to Apollo
Beginning July 12, Second City will be performing at the Apollo Theater. The one in Chicago, not Harlem. Longtime Second City director Mick Napier, left, is putting together a new, all-improv show featuring a rotating group of alumnae from the...
Madame Morrible, replete with Tony
Effective Friday, the Chicago company of "Wicked" has a freshly minted Tony winner back in place as Madame Morrible. Rondi Reed, left, who won the Tony Award for best featured actress for her Broadway work in Steppenwolf's "August: Osage County,"...
'Wicked' anniversary party moves to Millennium Park
Tuesday is the third anniversary of the Chicago "Wicked." As in past years, the first 365 people to show appropriately Elphaba-fied (i.e. green and bewitched) will get a free pair of tickets to an upcoming performance of the hit musical....
Chicago Sun-Times
Razzle dazzle abounds in 'Kooza'
'Gutenberg!' is bible of shopworn musicals
It's curtains for 'Ragtime'
Puppeteers lend their hands to 'A Rabbit's Tale'
'Global Warming' stage show urges kids to go green
Production of Noel Coward's 'Hay Fever' worth catching
Wilmette cancels 'Ragtime' due to language
Stage notes
Charming 'Elephant' better as small-scale production
Stage show lets us go 'Walking With Dinosaurs'
Time Out Chicago
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Who'd write a musical about the printing press? Exactly.
Review: Bloody Bess @ Backstage Theatre Company
Review: The Mysterious Elephant @ Strange Tree Group
Review: Relatively Close @ Victory Gardens Theater
Review: The Nebraska Project @ Bruised Orange Theater
Spotlight on...Strange Tree Group
Emily Schwartz and her gleefully macabre storefront troupe make murder fun again.
Time Out Chicago Blog
Banned if you do, banned if you don’t
As has been reported, the outdoor production of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’s Ragtime that was supposed to play Wilmette’s Gillson Park has been scuttled because ...
Free beer. Also, $7 improv from SNL alums
Former SNL cast member Nora Dunn will be performing with some Chicago improv pups tomorrow night. ...
August: So Gay County
There’s been plenty of post-hoopla debate about the literary nature of Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County. Is it high tragedy? Base melodrama? Ethnic comedy for white people?
Five new Neos
Daily Herald
Chicago playwright serves up 'Donuts'
Cirque's new show still dazzles
Too 'Much Ado About Nothing'?
Local director revives once-popular love tale
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Assessing Jeune Leune
The news that Theatre de la Jeune Lune would close was a shocker. How could it happen? And what are the implications for theater in the Twin Cities?
* A curtain of debt falls on Jeune Lune
* A Jeune Lune timeline
Tickets go on sale today for 'Little House' musical at Guthrie
Single tickets go on sale at 10 o'clock this morning for the Guthrie Theater's new musical production of "Little House on the Prairie."
Showboat theater is back with "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Fifty years have passed since Frank Whiting had an old paddle boat dragged upriver to start a University of Minnesota theatrical tradition.
'Charlotte's Web': A classic story, well staged
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Jeune Lune recalled: Our theater scene will be darker when we can't bask in the Lune light
Memory is the most potent legacy of live performance, so as Theatre de la Jeune Lune wanes, it seems apt to recall some of the company's best moments from its three decades of sometimes brilliant, sometimes turbulent life.
Ticket sales for 'Little House' drew crowds, jammed phones
Guthrie Theater officials reported lines out the door and around the block Friday morning as tickets for "Little House on the Prairie: The Musical" went on sale.
Minneapolis City Pages
After a Hundred Years delivers little philosophical insight
If the Guthrie wants to explore Big Ideas, it'll need a bigger play
Theater Spotlight:The Play My Mother Hates
Detroit Free Press
Purple Rose hosts a Western comedy directed by Jeff Daniels
Ann Arbor News
Jeff Daniels' new play to open
Actor/playwright Jeff Daniels has gone country, at least for the new comedy he's written for the Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea.
Patinkin promises classics and more
It's not every Monday morning that starts with the likes of Mandy Patinkin reciting Shakespeare over the phone. The singer and actor, who performs Saturday night at Power Center, spoke to The News recently about what he's been up to lately, which includes a foray into the world of The Bard.
Encore Michigan
Timely political satire at The Abreact
Mike McGettigan's second chapter of his Desperate Losers series couldn't have come at a more opportune time for the playwright.
* Tipping Point Theatre extends run of Don't Dress for Dinner
* Michigan Shakespeare Festival awarded grant
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
‘Triptych’ is an assortment of surprises — mostly good
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Review: Ladyhouse Blues
Review: High School Musical
* Orange Girls plan cabaret benefit
* Midnight Company will open 'Mass Appeal' at Christ Church Cathedral
St. Louis Riverfront Times
Postwar Always Rings Twice: Act, Inc. resurrects a pair of bygone scripts
After 55 minutes of mostly static discourse about the dullness of life in post-World War I England, magic happens late in Act One of A.A. Milne's...
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Louisville Courier Journal
Staging, cast make 'Caesar' memorable
A Samurai-influenced production of "Julius Casear" in Central Park borrows elements of Kabuki theater.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ohio Light Opera performs The Mikado' and Czarevitch'
As someday it may happen that a record must be found, Ohio Light Opera's got a little list. Actually, a long one.
The Wiz' may be last musical at Evans Amphitheater in Cain Park
"The Wiz," which opened last weekend in celebration of Cain Park's 70th anniversary, ironically might be the last musical to be staged in the park's Evans Amphitheater, a Cleveland Heights landmark.
Cleveland Plain Dealer On Stage Blog
Flash slide show by Roger Mastroianni of Cain Park's "The Wiz"
New videos: Fourth Wall Productions' "Dog Sees God" and Cameo's "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
The Cleveland Play House and Actors' Summit extend successful summer shows
The arts center formerly known as Playhouse Square is now PlayhouseSquare
Video of Olmsted Performing Arts upcoming 'Singin' in the Rain'
Cleveland Scene
Frankie Valli and his Seasons are brought to life in Playhouse Square’s Jersey Boys
A spotty storyline undermines the magic of Cain Park’s The Wiz
Capsule reviews of current area theater presentations
Cincinnati Enquirer
Review: Jerry Springer: The Opera
'Springer' loses its fire.
Good vs. evil? That's 'Springer'
New Stage's largest production to date is a fascinating mix of a high art and low culture
'Jitney' wins Acclaim
Queen City Off Broadway's Jitney, receives Acclaim for scenic design.
Cincinnati CityBeat
Curtain Call: Theaters, Actors, Etc.
Good Theater Is Good Theater
Review: Jitney
QCOB's Jitney brings August Wilson's play to Madisonville
Dallas Morning News
'Hairspray' keeps its bounce at Fair Park Music Hall
Nearly six years after it debuted on Broadway, Hairspray is turning out to be the most influential musical of the decade. To figure out why, check out the touring version that the Dallas Summer Musicals opened Tuesday.
Dallas Morning News Over The Top Blog
Tammy Dombeck provides inspiration for Hip Pocket Theatre
July 4 'Oldest Living Graduate' performance canceled
Hairspray pulls in a young crowd
Whoopi joins Oprah on Broadway
Denise Lee to Jubilee
Joanna Schellenberg in All's Well
Sad news from the Minnesota theater scene
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Theater group gets 'The Little Mermaid' from audition to showtime in no time
'Monty Python’s Spamalot’ is hilarious
Houston Chronicle
Review: Strauss meets Poe in Lone Star festival opener
Ovations in the Rice Village was a great space for Orlovsky's Opulent Affair, the opening show in the 2008 Lone Star Lyric Theater Festival.
Lyric Theater fest is a feast of light opera
Houston Chronicle About Last Night Blog
``I'm Not Making This Up'' Department
Houston Press
Tamarie at Target
The Tamarie Cooper Show has arrived at Stages Repertory Theatre, and what a tangy tonic it is. It helps to know a little bit about the history...
Capsule Stage Reviews: Electile Dysfunction, Exit the Body, Gilligan's Island, Moments in a Decade
Austin American-Statesman
Review: 'Pirates of Penzance'
Review: 'Altar Boyz'
Arizona Republic
Review: 'High School Musical'
Denver Post
Longmont actor held in child-molestation case
Gory "Macbeth" pulls wagonload of meaning
Rocky Mountain News
In 'Macbeth,' Shakespeare fest stirs the cauldron with skill
Friendship's a funny thing in 'Matt & Ben'
Daily Camera
Review: Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 'Macbeth'
Artistic director Sneed takes center stage in impressive CSF staging.
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