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'Othello: The Remix' is Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★½
Even for fans for such prior endeavors as "The Bomb-itty of Errors" and "Funk it Up About Nothin'," a hip-hop version of "Othello" sounded like a stretch for the Q Brothers, that bizarre pair of theatrically inclined Caucasian rappers, born and raised...
Tags: Justin Bieber, London Theatre, GQ, England, Navy Pier
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Summer 2013: 10 theater shows for a sunny Chicago
Two components of many a Chicago summer of live entertainment are absent this year — there's no Cirque du Soleil tent at the United Center and no Riverfront Theater at the Tribune Company's Freedom Center. So you'll have to go camping for fun...
Tags: Music, Robin Williams, Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Riverfront Theater
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An answer to a mystery: What happened to Theatre Building money?
An answer to a long-standing mystery finally was forthcoming today: What would the organization known as Chicago Muse do with the remaining proceeds from the sale of the Theatre Building Chicago, located at 1225 W. Belmont Ave., to Lukaba Productions?...Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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Molusi's voyage in 'Cadre' is set in years after apartheid
The voice of Nelson Mandela crackles through much of "Cadre," the interesting new work-in-progress created, mostly in Chicago, by the South African writer-director Omphile Molusi, known internationally for his play "Itsoseng." Those of us of a certain age...
Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Celebrities, Navy Pier, Arts and Culture, Nelson Mandela
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Once on the bus, you don't have a chance
A plain-looking bus full of ticketed passengers pulled up to an ordinary Chicago street corner on Tuesday night and a couple of Nigerian women jumped on board. One was wary of the people on the bus and sat quietly, watching. The other, younger woman...
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Walking this 'route' will change the way you see this city - and yourself
Good theater can make the strange familiar. Great theater usually makes the familiar strange.
And for someone like me who has worked on Michigan Avenue for years, what is more familiar than the city of Chicago? A city one thinks one knows, having lived...Tags: MP3 Players, Cell Phones, Music, Wrigley Building, Metra
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Real regret earns standing ovations in Gary Griffin's Chicago-style 'Follies'
No glamorous ghosts haunt Gary Griffin's human-scaled, Chicago-style production of "Follies." And, unlike the current Broadway revival of this most unstinting, despairing and gorgeously scored of musicals, there is no beautiful spectacle on Kevin Depinet'...Tags: Broadway Theater, Music, I'm Still Here (movie), Music Theater, Dance
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The Goodman Theatre celebrates a decade of drama
When the new $46 million Goodman Theatre opened its doors on Dec. 11, 2000, with the inaugural performance of August Wilson's "King Hedley II," the Loop was beset by a blizzard. Ever cognizant of the political perils of Chicago snowstorms, Mayor Richard...Tags: Politics, Music, Goodman Theatre, Richard M. Daley, Regina Taylor
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Rachel Rockwell brings out the best in child actors
For Chicago stage director Rachel Rockwell, 2012 began with the brood of Capt. von Trapp and ended with the little orphan girls of "Annie." Be the kids proud Austrians or precocious New Yorkers, Rockwell knows how to wrangle the little darlings. Most of...
Tags: Music, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Theater, Arts and Culture
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"Yellow Moon" at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe ★★
Like several theater artists with connections to bonnie Scotland, David Greig seems to have the golden ticket of the moment. This thrilling scribe — perchance you saw his grand piece "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" last fall at the Chicago...
Tags: Authors, Celebrities, Salt, Arts and Culture
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Liveliness of 'Midsummer' gets it halfway there
Deep in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a weaver named Nick Bottom, the kind of ordinary, clumsy, clueless, overweight, middle-age, Cubs-and-Old Style-loving guy who can get his head transformed into that of an ass without really noticing the change,...Tags: Rock of Ages (movie), Navy Pier, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, William Shakespeare
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A fast-paced, entertaining 'Henry VIII'
William Shakespeare and his company were not the first artistic entity to suck up to their funders and protectors, and they surely weren't the last. Still, it's hard to watch the last scenes of “Henry VIII” without fantasizing that Wily Old...
Tags: Human Interest, Arts and Culture, William Shakespeare
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