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Chicago Tribune to launch Theater Loop newsletter
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Chicago Tribune will launch a new Theater Loop newsletter with the latest news and reviews from America’s hottest theater city. It will be delivered...
Review: In ‘Wipeout’ by Rivendell Theatre, riding the waves with a spirited older trio
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe much-loved crew behind Chicago’s Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, a storefront theater on Chicago’s...
Review: Marriott Theatre’s ‘In the Heights’ delivers on this heartwarming musical’s promise
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe venerable Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has been improving in leaps and bounds this season...
Review: In ‘Billy Elliot’ at Paramount Theatre, Elton John’s songs still come through
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months ago“Billy Elliot” certainly belongs on any list of the greatest British musicals of all time, eclipsed...
Review: A warm, laugh-filled ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ at Nederlander Theatre
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoBroadway producers often are surprised to find that audiences outside New York City vote with their...
Review: Lovely ‘Music Man’ at Marriott Theatre is all about Marian the librarian
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoWhy does Marian the librarian fall for that slick con man Harold Hill, he who has manufactured...
Dan Sullivan, longtime Times theater critic and one of the nation's most read, dies
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDan Sullivan, longtime theater critic for the Los Angeles Times, had a ready reply when people asked him what it was like reviewing theater for the paper. It was, he said, “like having someone ...
Review: This ‘Mamma Mia!’ at Nederlander Theatre comes with the Donna of all Donnas
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoI’ve reviewed the same original production of “Mamma Mia!” 14 times from London to Las Vegas (although not to Monaco) and New York to Chicago, using up every last ABBA Easter egg in my writer ...
Review: In ‘The Lion in Winter’ at Court Theatre, an old play is on the prowl again
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 months agoFor a devastating portrait of what we now euphemistically call middle age, head down to Court Theatre and see “The Lion in Winter,” a cheerfully anachronistic play famously made into a film ...
Review: Second City NYC opens with ‘Ruthless Acts of Kindness’ in a theater still finding its way
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoNEW YORK — A Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich is on the menu at Second City’s new outpost in...