Last August, I caught up with Jacob Harvey just as he was taking over as the new (and first-ever) managing artistic director of theaters for the Fine Arts Building. At the time, he noted that with the loss of the Royal George as a midsize rental house, the soon-to-be-remodeled Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts […]
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Goodbye to songwriter Michael Smith
With “The Dutchman” and other widely recorded songs, Michael Smith created emotional realities that let you feel along with his characters.
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is Matt Crowle’s show
When he gets going, even his scene partners stop and stare.
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The Joffrey’s new Nutcracker is set in Chicago on the grounds of the 1893 World’s Fair
Christopher Wheeldon’s $4 million production grounds the fantasy in working-class life.
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A dispute seems to have galvanized Porchlight’s In the Heights
There was much ado about the casting of Porchlight Theatre’s In the Heights, but Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton musical shines through.
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Approach Steppenwolf’s The Qualms without reservations
The Qualms, Bruce Norris’s satire about swingers, inspires no reservations in one Chicago critic.
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Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake slithers toward the transcendent
In Goodman Theatre’s The White Snake, Mary Zimmerman’s unique theatrical language is more powerful than ever.
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August closing at end of June
Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama wraps up its Broadway run on June 28.
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Victory Gardens’ Zacek marks 30 years
Dennis Zacek of Victory Gardens Theater is the longest-tenured artistic director in town.