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Theater news, reviews, video and features from the @chicagotribune’s Theater Loop with @ChrisJonesTrib and @proudchismosa https://t.co/HKrIBMoe8V
Chicago, IL
Joined November 2014
What is missing from the streets of Chicago this summer? People from other countries. And that's a problem, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
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"Hummingbird," a new virtual-reality play designed for younger tech-savvy audiences, debuts at @thisisUIC with plans to move to the @GoodmanTheatre this fall.
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Live theaters have yet to reopen as much of the state has, but when they do, take comfort in the fact that there are people working on taking the traditional theatergoing experience to the next lev…
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. @AuditoriumChgo announced its plan to reopen this fall along with the 2021-22 arts season. Chicago’s @EnsembleEspanol will reopen the theater and kick off the season on Oct 16. Check out the full season below https://t.co/Cjgrz0RMXF
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Chicago's @blackensemble and @ExploreNMMA have each received multimillion dollar grants from MacKenzie Scott. Check out the latest column from @ChrisJonesTrib
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Does @TheSecondCity have a new pipeline to @iamjohnoliver and @StephenAtHome's shows? Check out the latest from @ChrisJonesTrib
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Magda Krance, longtime director of media relations for the @LyricOpera will retire at the end of June. She has been the Lyric's its supremely confident and thoroughly unflappable public-facing problem solver for some 30 years, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
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There was that time one lawyer shushed another at “La Traviata” and it led to fisticuffs in the aisle. There was the moment the mezzo-soprano Susan Graham eyed a pair of shoes that matc…
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This just in: @StephenAtHome joins @TheSecondCity's new board of directors, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
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. @GoodmanTheatre announces 2021-22 season, with live performances beginning this summer. Get the details from @ChrisJonesTrib below https://t.co/LQlt20vUWI
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The Goodman Theatre has announced its 2021-22 season, featuring many of the productions originally announced before the pandemic closed the theater for more than a year. On July 30, the Goodman wil…
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The new @SteppenwolfThtr mural was designed in honor of the former artistic director Martha Lavey, who took over artistic direction in 1995 after the theater was built and who died in 2017 following a pair of debilitating strokes, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
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When Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theatre opened its new Lincoln Park home in 1991, it debuted a building intentionally unadorned. The Tribune’s Sid Smith described the dour décor…
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Chicago's @HarrisTheater announced its 2021-22 season of in-person performances, presented under the venue’s own banner and featuring many international artists. Find out more from @ChrisJonesTrib below
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The Tony nominee Joaquina Kalukango ("Slave Play”) and the Canadian musical-theater star Chilina Kennedy (“Beautiful”) are to star in “Paradise Square,” the Garth Drabinsky musical trying out this fall in Chicago and then headed to Broadway. https://t.co/HwdFhn9AuR
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The Tony nominee Joaquina Kalukango (‘Slave Play”) and the Canadian musical-theater star Chilina Kennedy (“Beautiful”) are to star in “Paradise Square,” the Gart…
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. @SteppenwolfThtr will honor Annette Bening and Sherry Lansing with a free virtual event led by @carriecoon. Get all the details from @proudchismosa below https://t.co/1bbqQ7aDaQ
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“Far Too Late,” the first song from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella,” has been released ahead of the album drop on July 9. https://t.co/zZb4DcPpK1
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. @TheSecondCity said Friday that its e.t.c. space will reopen for shows beginning tonight, June 4. Get the details from @ChrisJonesTrib below https://t.co/J9jmgxwHp8
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Jay Españo, an actor, singer and director with experience in both film and live performance, has been appointed artistic director of @PrideArtsChi the Chicago theater company formerly known as Pride Film and Plays.
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Jay Españo, an actor, singer and director with experience in both film and live performance, has been appointed artistic director of PrideArts, the Chicago theater company formerly known as …
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Following last fall’s Chicago Parks touring production, @GoodmanTheatre will return with a presentation of @sonesdemexico's “Zulema,” running Aug. 5-21 with a final performance on Sept. 2. Get the details from @proudchismosa below https://t.co/Kb6IfvzT17
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Following last fall’s Chicago Parks touring production, “Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!”, Goodman Theatre will return to this summer with a presentation of Sones de México …
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Broadway will return on Aug. 4, with previews for Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over,” a production that premiered at Chicago’s @SteppenwolfThtr, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
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Precisely when Broadway will reopen remains a moving target. At first, it appeared like the big moment would be Sept. 14 with a powerful triple-play of returns by “The Lion King,” ̶…
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Naomi Osaka doesn't want to talk to the press? She'll win in the end because the nature of celebrity is changing with the younger generation, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
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One night before the pandemic, I watched a famous Broadway star generously spend a half-hour or so greeting fans outside the theater. As we stood on the sidewalk, I remarked upon the warm post-show…
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“Swing Low” is the latest in what has been a very moving little suite of pandemic-era @joffreyballet films from its Chicago black box studio, all offering the chance to see the superb dancers in close-up. @ChrisJonesTrib reviews: https://t.co/iZlxBC0Nsv
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Lakeview’s @theaterwit will resume live performances this August, beginning with a remount of the 2015 production, "Mr. Burns, a post electric play.” Get all the details from @proudchismosa below. https://t.co/v6syFeHqvd
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