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A citywide salute to playwright Pearl Cleage, from ‘The Nacirema Society’ to ‘Mad at Miles’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFamily matriarchs. Rites of passage. Love. Family secrets. Personal ambition and legacy. Playwright...
Helen Hunt, ‘Inherit the Wind’ and ‘Color Purple’ are all part of Goodman Theatre 2024-25 season
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA new production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” starring Helen Hunt, a staging of “The Color Purple”...
Victory Gardens Theater places artistic director ‘on leave’ and sees a mass resignation of...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCHICAGO — Victory Gardens Theater, a venerable and Tony Award-winning Chicago company that has seen more than its share of staff turmoil in recent years, appears to have entered another deeply ...
Victory Gardens Theater, in turmoil, cancels performances of ‘cullud wattah’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe crisis at Victory Gardens Theater deepened Friday as the company canceled all of its upcoming performances of ”cullud wattah” after the playwright, Erika Dickerson-Despenza, exercised her ...
Writers Theatre for 2023-24: Braden Abraham’s first season includes ‘The Band’s Visit’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWriters Theatre in Glencoe now has a new artistic director, Braden Abraham, who most recently was artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre. And it has a new season to announce, a slate ...
Review: In ‘The Nacirema Society’ at the Goodman Theatre, an all-star cast leans into the laughter
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThanks to shows such as “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” “Bourbon at the Border” and “Flyin’ West,” most Chicago audiences know Pearl Cleage for searing, carefully constructed poetic dramas, history ...
Director of ‘Our Town’ at Baltimore Center Stage preps for Broadway debut later this year
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStevie Walker-Webb is currently directing the Pulitzer-winning play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder at Baltimore Center Stage. Shortly after that, he will make his Broadway directorial debut in ...
From ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Dreamgirls’: Goodspeed Opera House announces its 2023 season
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA stage version of a classic Judy Garland movie, two familiar hits with strong female leads and a new musical from a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of the most progressive directors ...
Review: ‘Passing Strange’ at Theo Ubique is still finding this autobiographical show’s heart
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOne night in 2008, I was standing outside New York’s Belasco Theatre when a black car drove up and a familiar figure got out. The occupant was Gerald Schoenfeld, then head of the Shubert Organization ...
Goodman Theatre 2023-24 season: A pair of Broadway contenders in the first season for Susan Booth
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“Seasons,” says Susan V. Booth, “need to reveal themselves.” Booth announced her first one Wednesday as the new artistic director of the Goodman Theatre, taking over the role from Robert Falls ...