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Review: ‘MotherFreakingHood!’ offers cocktails and catharsis for exhausted moms at Mercury Theater
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoChicago’s Southport Corridor teems with young moms, their babies and toddlers, and the Mercury Theater is hosting a new commercially produced musical aimed squarely at those very mothers, hopefully ...
2023 Equity Jeff Award nominations announced, with the Goodman at the top of the list
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoNominations are in for this year’s 55th anniversary Jeff Awards for Equity Theater, with the Goodman Theatre being the most nominated. The Goodman collected 32 entries on the list from nine ...
Review: ‘Jersey Boys’ is a jukebox time machine at Mercury — and oh, what a voice!
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThe musical “Jersey Boys” has created a few stars in its roughly 20-year history, including John...
Eat. Watch. Do. — Boonie’s review, budget-friendly LA travel and pumpkin spice... Malört
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIt’s Thursday, Chicago. If Malört induces your gag reflex, then maybe it’s worth skipping CH...
Review: ‘Big River’ a musical journey with Jim and Huck Finn at Mercury Theater
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the mid-1980s, Broadway made an effort to recruit songwriters from Nashville and producers happened on a man named Roger Miller, at that point best known for penning the song “King of the ...
2023 Equity Jeff Awards: Goodman, Teatro Vista and American Blues are the big winners
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe Goodman Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of “The Who’s Tommy,” Teatro Vista and American Blues Theater’s staging of August Wilson’s “Fences” were big winners at Monday night’s 55th ...
Best Chicago theater of 2023: From ‘Tommy’ to a soul opera, our top 10 shows chosen from many
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 6 months agoArtistic excellence abounded in Chicago theater even as 2023 proved fiscally and structurally challenging for many companies and artists. Here’s my annual top-10 list of the year, along with ...
Review: ‘Young Frankenstein’ comes alive at Mercury Theater, thanks to Igor and the Monster
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThey spent $20 million to open “Young Frankenstein” on Broadway in 2007. But all the money in Bavaria couldn’t avoid comparisons with “The Producers,” the Mel Brooks movie-to-Broadway masterpiece ...
Review: In ‘Rock of Ages’ at Mercury Theater, knockout singers bring nothin’ but a good time
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThere are three golden rules for a great production of “Rock of Ages,” the comedic 2009 Broadway musical by Chris D’Arienzo that celebrates the power ballads, guitar-driven romps and heavy-metal ...
Daywatch: Pumpkin Spice Malört is here
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGood morning, Chicago. Autumn lovers, die-hard Chicagoans and plain old masochists found new common ground this October at CH Bar in the West Loop....
