BWW Review: Potent First Stage HOLES Transforms Destinies through Friendship
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Jan 18, 2016
Dig, dig, dig--Digging five foot deep holes, five feet wide, in a barren desert is what the teenage boys at Camp Green Lake, Texas, do every day from sunrise to sunset. Louis Sachar's award-winning, beloved novel of two boys who learn to be friends in a detention camp comes to life at First Stage's entertaining production Holes in the Todd Wehr Theater through February 14. Directed by Jeff Frank on Rick Rasmussen's desolate stage territory, a place where rain has not touched the ground for over 100 years, Lyndsey Kuhlmann's orange detention suits provide the only color while Mary MacDonald Kerr's slick Warden suits often shine with rhinestones, a spark of the dark side at what will be a historic site for several camp members.
Tony Winner Bartlett Sher to Helm ROMEO AND JULIET at Lyric Opera of Chicago
by Tyler Peterson
- Jan 6, 2016
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents a new-to-Chicago production of Romeo and Juliet, Feb. 22-March 19, 2016, helmed by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher-who makes his Lyric debut fresh off directing the four-time Tony Award-winning revival of The King and I at Lincoln Center Theater. Lyric's Romeo and Juliet is presented in conjunction with the Shakespeare 400 Chicago international arts festival, for which Lyric is a partner organization.
Lyric Opera's BEL CANTO Set For PBS' Great Performances Series Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Jan 5, 2016
Lyric Opera of Chicago is excited to announce that Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET New York has selected the world-premiere production of Bel Canto – The Opera to be part of the prestigiousGreat Performances series on PBS. The WNET team will be in Chicago to film performances tonight, January 5, and January 8. Bel Canto will air nationally during the 2016/17 television season.
Artie Lange, Charlie Murphy, Whitney Cummings & More Coming to Carolines on Broadway in January
by Tyler Peterson
- Dec 22, 2015
Carolines on Broadway announces its line-up for the month of January 2016, highlighted by headliners Joe Machi, a finalist from Season 8 of NBC's "Last Comic Standing," January 1 - 3; Michael Blackson, "The African King of Comedy", January 7 - 10; Artie Lange, host of "Artie Lange's Uncensored Podcast," January 15; Charlie Murphy, from Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show," Martin Luther King, Jr. Weekend, January 16 & 17; Whitney Cummings, from her HBO special, "I'm Your Girlfriend," January 20 and 21; Eric Andre, star of Adult Swim's "The Eric Andre Show," January 21 - 23; and J.B. Smoove, from HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," January 28 - 30.
Cast Announced for TENNESSEE WILLIAMS 1982 at Walkerspace
by Tyler Peterson
- Dec 22, 2015
Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company (Producing Artistic Director Joseph W. Rodriguez) presents Tennessee Williams 1982, an evening of two, little known, one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, both completed in 1982, the year before the playwrights death. Directed by Cosmin Chivu (2013 revival of Tennessee Williams' The Mutilated), Tennessee Williams 1982 features the world premiere of A Recluse and His Guest and New York Premiere of The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde. These two chamber pieces epitomize the theatrical imagination the playwright employed throughout his long writing career combined with the freedom he found later in life. Crisply written black comedies, these fierce plays center on the demands of unlikely human relationships in exotic locales fraught with tension.
Lyric Opera of Chicago Presents Strauss's DER ROSENKAVALIER, 2/8
by Christina Mancuso
- Dec 22, 2015
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the perfect midwinter getaway: a beautiful production of Richard Strauss's delectably bittersweet romantic comedyDer Rosenkavalier, which opens on Monday, February 8 for eight performances.
Lyric Opera's BEL CANTO Set For PBS' Great Performances Series, 1/5
by Christina Mancuso
- Dec 17, 2015
Lyric Opera of Chicago is excited to announce that Thirteen Productions LLC for WNET New York has selected the world-premiere production of Bel Canto – The Opera to be part of the prestigiousGreat Performances series on PBS. The WNET team will be in Chicago to film performances January 5 and 8. Bel Canto will air nationally during the 2016/17 television season.
TV: First Look at Rene Flemming in Susan Stroman-Helmed THE MERRY WIDOW
by Nicole Rosky
- Nov 13, 2015
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the sparkling operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar in a new-to-Chicago production to launch the holiday season. It opens on Saturday, November 14 with 10 performances through Sunday, December 13. Performances are in English with projected titles.
Lyric Opera of Chicago to Present BEL CANTO, 12/7
by Matt Smith
- Oct 17, 2015
CHICAGO – Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the eagerly awaited world premiere of Bel Canto, which opens on Monday, December 7 for seven performances. This is Lyric's seventh full-length operatic world premiere.
Composer Jimmy López (music) and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz(libretto) are the creators of Bel Canto. Lyric's music director Sir Andrew Daviswill conduct the new opera, which was curated by Lyric's creative consultant
Renée Fleming. Bel Canto is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Ann Patchett. The production will be directed by Kevin Newbury.
Tony Award Winner Susan Stroman to Debut in Lyric Opera of Chicago's THE MERRY WIDOW, 11/14
by Christina Mancuso
- Oct 13, 2015
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the sparkling operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar in a new-to-Chicago production directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. Presented in English with projected titles, the production opens on Saturday, November 14 with 10 performances through Sunday, December 13. Performance dates are November 14, 17, 20, 23, 25, 28 at7:30pm; and December 3, 9, 11, and 13 at 2pm. For tickets and information call (312) 827-5600 or go towww.lyricopera.org/merrywidow.
New Repertory Theatre Stages Caryl Churchill's A NUMBER, Beginning Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Oct 10, 2015
New Repertory Theatre announces A NUMBER by Caryl Churchill, tonight, October 10 - November 1, 2015 in the Charles Mosesian Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA. The press opening will be Monday, October 12, at 7:30pm.
Lyric Opera of Chicago's THE MERRY WIDOW Opens 11/14
by Tyler Peterson
- Oct 8, 2015
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents the sparkling operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár in a new-to-Chicago production to launch the holiday season. It opens on Saturday, November 14 with 10 performances through Sunday, December 13. Performance dates are November 14, 17, 20, 23, 25, 28 at 7:30pm; and December 3, 9, 11, and 13 at 2pm. Performances are in English with projected titles.
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