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NU 'Grapes of Wrath' is justice delayed for composer Gordon
"The Grapes of Wrath," composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Michael Korie's operatic adaptation of John Steinbeck's sprawling 1939 novel about dispossessed Oklahoma sharecroppers during the Great Depression, has enjoyed a degree of instant success...Tags: Music, Goodman Theatre, Colleges and Universities, Entertainment, France
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Mary Schmich: A book, a song, a poem among my favorite things
Here's one of my occasional lists of nine things I've liked lately. 1. "Dear Life" by Alice Munro. If I had to name a favorite writer, Munro would be it. Widely revered as the living queen of the short story, she's 81 now. This collection, her most...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Rachel McAdams, Poetry, Jimmy Smits
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Meet the cast of Chicago's 'Book of Mormon'
Tribune reporterWe spoke with three actors in the Chicago company of “The Book of Mormon,” now at the Bank of America Theatre. James Vincent Meredith as Mafala Hatimbi James Vincent Meredith is the ranking Chicagoan in the cast, a longtime Chicago stage...Tags: Wicked (musical), Entertainment Events, Theater, Religion and Belief, Entertainment
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'Other Place' holds the most intense work of Laurie Metcalf's career
NEW YORK — Here on W. 47th Street, in a fascinating play about early-onset dementia, or maybe it's brain cancer, or maybe it's just some non-specific traumatic disorder that flowed from the loss of a daughter, the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Entertainment, Roseanne (tv program), Arts and Culture
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Jimmy Smits sees 'Hat' as a good fit
About halfway through a very interesting interview over breakfast at the Kingsbury Street Cafe, the actor Jimmy Smits asked a question of his own. "How come you've not asked about my own relationship with addiction?" he said, as his warm face took on...
Tags: Bobby Cannavale, Entertainment, Yul Vazquez, Chris Rock, Drama (genre)
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Tomorrow looking bright for 'Annie'
Everyone's first "Annie" should be at a venerable venue like the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, which opened for business in 1931, right when "Little Orphan Annie" mania was at its peak. The historic theater on the Fox River was built just one year after...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Religion and Belief, Entertainment, To Kill a Mockingbird (movie)
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Fall Theater 2012: Broadway highlights include 'Annie,' 'Glengarry,' 'Virginia Woolf'
So who's more in tune with the times? Boozy Martha, Katie Holmes or Little Orphan Annie? Passive aggression, defiant independence and sunny optimism all are offered as part of the fall season on Broadway, where "Annie" gets her first Broadway revival at...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Entertainment, Bobby Cannavale, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie)
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How theater ticket prices are changing like airline fares
When the Goodman Theatre announced its prices for its current production, "Sweet Bird of Youth," starring Diane Lane, it listed $89 as the top ticket price for that show, a price that duly appeared in this newspaper. And had you bought your decent main-...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Prices, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Hotels, Computers and Software
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Following Garlin to some interesting places — because why not?
The comedian Jeff Garlin is never happy unless he actually starts his prepared material — well, what passes for his prepared material — at approximately the time his show was scheduled to end. Over two decades of reviewing his elongated...
Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Spirit Airlines
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A very full load of nominees for this year's Equity Jeff Awards
Apparently confronted by a plethora of riches in the past season of Chicago theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee offered up not the traditional four or five nominees one finds at the Tony Awards, for instance, but a bevy of nominees for its...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Goodman Theatre, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Nathan Lane, Clybourne Park (play)
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Chicago International Film Festival gets a digital face-lift
The biggest changes afoot in this year's Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), the 48th edition, are on the screen, yet they're not part of the programming. As the worldwide cinema industries push actual film — meaning celluloid — into...
Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Toronto International Film Festival, Denis Lavant, Festive Events, Rome (Italy)
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2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world
Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Bruce Norris, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Death of a Salesman (play), Andrew Garfield
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Nov 25, 2012
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Aug 21, 2012
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Oct 5, 2012
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Dec 15, 2012
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