STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Music Box Theater's THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
by Kelsey Denette - April 08, 2013 Music Box Musicals' first production, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins was a huge success, selling out almost every performance and hailed by every local critic as a 'not to be missed theatrical event'. As a follow up to Assassins, Music Box Musicals will present Houston's first professional regional pr...
BSO Announces 'Music Box Series' for Children Age 6 Months to 3 Years
by Kelsey Denette - February 06, 2013 The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces the Music Box Series, a unique new program for young children ages 6 months to three years old and their families....
STAGE TUBE: Behind the Scenes of PIPPIN'S First Preview!
by Nicole Rosky - March 27, 2013 Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's beloved coming-of-age musical comedy Pippin began performances on Saturday, March 23 at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street). This all new production is directed by Diane Paulus featuring choreography by Chet Walker in the style of Bob Fosse and circus ...
Jeff Garlin Stars in DEALIN' WITH IDIOTS at Music Box Theatre, Opening Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2013 Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Jeff Garlin takes the director's chair with his youth baseball comedy Dealin' With Idiots from IFC Films, opening in Chicago tonight, July 12 at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue....
STRAIGHT SHOOTING, THE GENERAL and More Set for Music Box's Silent Cinema Series, Fall 2013
by Movies News Desk - September 14, 2013 This fall, Music Box Theatre's monthly Second Saturday Silent Cinema series screens a trio of excellent matinees. John Ford's remarkable first picture Straight Shooting - a Western, naturally - bows today, September 14, followed by Buster Keaton's must-see masterpiece The General on October 12 and t...
Comedian Eddie Pepitone Comes to Music Box, 3/15
by Kelsey Denette - March 08, 2013 "Comedian's comedian" Eddie Pepitone and director Steven Feinartz, a Columbia College alum, return to Chicago for a special one-night showing of their film festival hit The Bitter Buddha. Author and AV Club editor Nathan Rabin moderates a post-screening conversation Friday, March 15, 9:30 p.m. at Mu...
Music Box Theatre Screens National Theatre Live's THIS HOUSE Tonight
by BWW News Desk - June 25, 2013 The Music Box Theatre continues its partnership with the UK's National Theatre Live - produced by Northwestern alum David Sabel - to exhibit live stage performances beamed to Chicago from the prestigious National Theatre in London. This month: a backbiting drama between Britain's political partiesin...
Largest Phonograph and Music Box Show Returns to Donley's Wild West Town Today
by BWW News Desk - June 08, 2013 With hundreds of antique phonographs, high quality music boxes, and vintage radios, thousands of rare records from the 1890's to the 1950's and more, the 38th Annual Phonograph and Music Box Show at Donley's Wild West Town will once again bring international acclaim to the village of Union, Illinois...
Music Box Theatre to Present Lost Valentino/Gloria Swanson Film BEYOND THE ROCKS, 6/8
by Tyler Peterson - May 31, 2013 Music Box Theatre presents a long lost film from the Hollywood Golden Age when its monthly Silent Cinema Series revives the 1922 Gloria Swanson/Rudolph Valentino treasure Beyond the Rocks. Chicagoans will have the rare opportunity to see this silent romance on the big screen with live musical accom...
STRAIGHT SHOOTING, THE GENERAL and More Set for Music Box's Silent Cinema Series, Fall 2013
by Movies News Desk - September 03, 2013 This fall, Music Box Theatre's monthly Second Saturday Silent Cinema series screens a trio of excellent matinées. John Ford's remarkable first picture Straight Shooting - a Western, naturally - bows September 14, followed by Buster Keaton's must-see masterpiece The General on October 12 and the stop...
Music Box Theatre Presents National Theatre Live's THIS HOUSE Today
by BWW News Desk - June 15, 2013 The Music Box Theatre continues its partnership with the UK's National Theatre Live - produced by Northwestern alum David Sabel - to exhibit live stage performances beamed to Chicago from the prestigious National Theatre in London. This month: a backbiting drama between Britain's political partiesin...
Jeff Garlin, Tippi Hedren, & More Set for Music Box Theatre's Summer Schedule!
by Tyler Peterson - May 29, 2013 Chicago's Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, hosts a variety of special screenings and appearances throughout the summer, including Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin in person for opening weekend of his new IFC Films comedy Dealing With Idiots, Hitchcock muse Tippi Hedren (The Birds) in attendan...
Music Box Theatre to Present NOIR CITY: CHICAGO Film Festival, 8/23-29
by Tyler Peterson - August 14, 2013 For the fifth year, Music Box Theatre presents Noir City: Chicago in collaboration with the Film Noir Foundation. The eagerly anticipated annual festival combines extraordinary rarities with revivals of recognized classics from the post-War film noir heyday. The 'Czar of Noir' Eddie Muller and noir ...
BWW Reviews: Mary Testa's ON BROADWAY ...AND A LITTLE OFF! is an Exquisite Experience
by David Clarke - August 03, 2013 Since we're living in Houston, I promise I won't be upset with you if you tell me you don't know who Mary Testa is. What you first need to understand is that the theatrical gods divinely intervened in her creation. Imagine if Bette Midler and Patti LuPone had a child and named her Mary. Got it? Good...
BWW Reviews: SPELLING BEE is Musical Theatre Candy at Its Absolute Best
by David Clarke - April 14, 2013 After riveting audiences with an emotionally raw and intellectual inaugural production of Stephen Sondheim's ASSASSINS, MJR Theatricals/Music Box Musicals is serving up a wondrously side-splitting, laugh-a-minute presentation of the Tony-award winning musical THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING B...
VIDEO: First Look - Trailer for New Documentary HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA
by - January 11, 2013 Music Box Films has released a new trailer for the upcoming documentary HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA. The film, from Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov, offers an exploration of the beautiful, harsh and elemental world of Siberian trappers living in Taiga. Get a first look below! ...
THE NUTCRACKER Plays Movie Theaters Nationwide Today
by Contests Broadway - December 03, 2012 The Nutcracker ballet returns to NCM Fathom Events this holiday season in collaboration with More2Screen and EuroArts Music. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker will be broadcast to movie theatres nationwide today, December 3 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (local time). And for the first time ever will be show...
Camp Midnight Presents MOMMIE DEAREST on Mother's Day
by Kelsey Denette - April 25, 2013 For a different kind of Mother's Day, Camp Midnight hosts a special afternoon presentation of the camp classic Mommie Dearest, the ultimate mother-daughter movie. Faye Dunaway chews the scenery and inks her eyebrows in this larger-than-life depiction of Joan Crawford, the Oscar-winning, wire hanger-...
Music Box Theatre to Host a Variety of Screenings, Interactive Productions this Fall
by Molly Tracy - August 30, 2013 Chicago's Music Box Theatre will host a variety of screenings throughout the fall, as well as interactive productions....
Music Box Films Secures Rights to 100 BLOODY ACRES
by Tyler Peterson - January 02, 2013 According to Variety, Music Box Films has picked up the rights to the Cairnes brothers upcoming flick 100 BLOODY ACRES. The film marks the first distribution for Music Box's new all-platform inclusive Doppleganger Releasing label....
Sound Opinions at the Movies Series Continues With WATTSTAX Tonight
by BWW News Desk - May 01, 2013 The popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series continues with a screening of Wattstax, the 1973 Mel Stuart documentary chronicling the legendary Stax Records-sponsored Watts Summer Music Festival, at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue, tonight, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Chicago Public Media'...
Chicago's Music Box Theatre to Present 'The Hitchcock 9' Restored Silent Films, 8/9-13
by Kristin Salaky - August 01, 2013 Music Box Theatre announces a program of Alfred Hitchcock's silent films, jointly presented by the British Film Institute, Park Circus/ITV and Rialto Pictures. The Hitchcock 9, comprising all of Alfred Hitchcock's surviving silent films from the 1920s, will be shown August 9-13 at Chicago's Music Bo...
Video Trailer: ANY DAY NOW, Starring Alan Cumming
by Movies News Desk - November 13, 2012 Inspired by a true story and touching on legal and social issues that are more relevant now than ever, ANY DAY NOW tells a story of love, acceptance, and creating your own family. Starring Alan Cumming, directed by Travis Fine and written by Fine and George Arthur Bloom, ANY DAY NOW is set to premie...
Chicago's Music Box Theatre Announces Sing-A-Long Screening of THE SOUND OF MUSIC and WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
by Kelsey Denette - March 21, 2013 Chicago's Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, ushers in spring with festive Easter weekend matinees of the ever-popular Sing-A-Long Sound of Music and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory....
BWW Reviews: MJR Theatricals | Music Box Musicals' LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is Spirited and Fun
by David Clarke - August 09, 2013 As the dog days of summer needlessly drag on in Houston, enveloping the city in oppressive heat, Michael J. Ross' MJR Theatricals | Music Box Musicals is presenting LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Roger Corman's notorious 1960 low-budget horror-themed comedy The Little Shop of Horrors serves as the basis fo... |
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