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Review: ‘The Smuggler’ by Jackalope Theatre is a watery story of gangsters and rats
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFew things scream Chicago theater more loudly than a couple of dozen people packed into a building...
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: Lucy Darling’s classy, funny magic show opens new Rhapsody Theater in Rogers Park
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOriginally the Morse Theatre and variously thereafter a synagogue, a shoe repair store and most...
Eat. Watch. Do. — ‘Creed III’ review, Jiro-style ramen and ‘Once’ at Writers Theatre
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt’s Thursday, Chicago. Hopefully, you got outside and enjoyed the sun yesterday. With cloudy skies...
Review: In ‘POTUS’ at Steppenwolf Theatre, it’s hard to keep track of the chaos in this White House
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoDespite mixed Broadway reviews last year, playwright Selina Fillinger’s “POTUS” has become the most produced play at American regional theaters this season, according to the nonprofit Theatre ...
Review: ‘Notes from the Field’ at TimeLine Theatre shows a different face of Anna Deavere Smith
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn her two great masterpieces, “Fires in the Mirror” and “Twilight: Los Angeles,” the...
Review: In ‘The Lion in Winter’ at Court Theatre, an old play is on the prowl again
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 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 ...