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This co-production balances gravity with hilarity in a still relevant story of an unorthodox family grappling with their individual and collective identities and relationships.
Top Chicago Dance Productions: December 2024
1 day ago · 1 The Nutcracker (Lyric Opera House) The Joffrey Ballet’s Chicago-centric holiday treat has become a mainstay of the season. Choreography by Christopher Wheeldon, set design by Tony winners Julian Crouch and celebrated children’s author Brian Selznick, and puppetry by Basil Twist place the tale in the 1893 World’s Fair with imagination and dazzle.
A Touch of Spring: A Review of “The Secret Garden” at Theo …
3 days ago · Mary Lennox, the heroine of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel “The Secret Garden,” is not a pleasant child. She’s rude, angry and sullen. And that’s why she’s a great character. Mary is real—she has undergone tragedy and abandonment and must be coaxed into flourishing, like a neglected ...
Preview: "The Tragedy of Hamlet—Prince of Denmark" at the …
Nov 20, 2024 · Internationally acclaimed theater director Robert Lepage says he thought he pretty much knew “Hamlet” inside and out. But then a novel opportunity to present the plight of Shakespeare’s indecisive Dane sparked a collaboration with National Ballet of Canada star Guillaume Côté for a dance-theater adaptation of the great tragedy.
Woke Up: A Review of “Don’t Quit Your Daydream” at The Second …
Jun 27, 2023 · RECOMMENDED. Take this with a grain of salt, because I don’t see every show at The Second City, but the new mainstage revue, “Don’t Quit Your Daydream,” is one of the most consistently funny shows—maybe the funniest—I’ve ever seen on that stage.
Players 50 2024: The Producers and Places | Newcity Stage
Jan 9, 2024 · Lawrence Daufenbach Executive Director/Founder, Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture It’s more than just a name change for the former Athenaeum Theatre: Lawrence Daufenbach, executive director and founder of the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture has overseen a tremendous revitalization of Chicago’s oldest continuously run Off-Loop theater.
Singing Through Grief: A Review of “Blue” at Lyric Opera
Nov 21, 2024 · A pre-pandemic Lyric Opera co-commission with Glimmerglass Festival and Washington National Opera, “Blue” was to have had its Chicago premiere in 2020. It finally made its way to Lyric Saturday night more than five years after its 2019 Glimmerglass premiere. To say that the opera with a ...
Stage Top 5: February 2024 | Newcity Stage
Jan 31, 2024 · Dance Top 5: February 2024 February brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
Stage Top 5: November 2023 - Newcity Stage
Oct 31, 2023 · 1 The Lifespan of a Fact (TimeLine Theatre) Artistic director P.J. Powers returns to the stage for the first time since 2015, in a dramatic tale of a magazine story on deadline.
Players 50 2022: The Advocates and Changemakers - Newcity Stage
Jan 7, 2022 · 45 Brian Loevner President and Founder, BLVE After a long run on the business side of theater, ranging from a decade as the managing director of a small nonprofit, Chicago Dramatists, through a tenure as managing producer of the multimillion-dollar Second City to a foray as an independent commercial producer, Brian Loevner decided to hang out his shingle as a consultant, serving a similar ...