It’s another summer in Chicago, so that means a visit from the touring production of the hit head-banger musical Rock of Ages. This crowd-pleasing show, which is now a major motion picture, kick started its national tour in Chicago in 2010. Then, last year, the non-Equity version of that tour played for a short stint… Read More HuffPo Review: ‘Rock of Ages’ Turns Up the Volume at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse
Simon Callow’s one-man show, Being Shakespeare, took the U.K. by storm and is now making a short stop at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s World’s Stage Series. The multi-talented Callow is a deeply compelling performer, who clearly revels in the Bard of Avon’s prose and poems. At various points Callow, who’s 62,… Read More Huffington Post: ‘Being Shakespeare’ at Broadway Playhouse
It’s an art: Barbara Robertson belts one out for the working woman. “Everyone should have something to point to Someway to be tall in the crowd Proud” Upon watching the newly re-worked musical revue Working, which opened last night at Broadway Playhouse, the above lyric made me think: in my career so far, is there… Read More ‘Working’ at Broadway Playhouse gets the job done, but still needs some work
It’s a relatively quiet period for Chicago theatre, with many shows either ending runs or getting ready to open. So, another list-y blog post! As usual, there are a barrage of shows opening in the first few months of the new year. Where to start? In no particular order, here are a few things I’m… Read More What I’m looking forward to in 2011 (so far, anyway)
The French Canadian performance group 7 Fingers will jump through the hoops for you. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things. That’s the best way to describe the heart-racing new show at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse. These seven young performers — part of French Canadian performance group 7 Fingers (Les 7 doigts de la main) — flip; jump;… Read More ‘Traces’ at Chicago’s Broadway Playhouse: ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Sutton Foster at the Broadway Playhouse. The radiant, gangly, Tony-winning Broadway star Sutton Foster has opened Chicago’s new Broadway Playhouse with style and heart. Some would argue that Ms. Foster is the last true Broadway star. No other actor of her generation has originated so many lead roles in new musicals on Broadway who isn’t… Read More Sutton Foster ‘blesses’ Chicago’s new Broadway Playhouse
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