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Joffrey Ballet's The Nutcracker returns to the Auditorium Theatre December 1st through December 30th. Christopher Wheeldon's reenvisioned masterpiece is featured in a brilliant WTTW PBS special Making a New American Nutcracker available online.
Read MoreRich Daniels and The City Lights Orchestra return to the Auditorium Theatre on November 17th for ELLA & LENA: The Ladies and Their Music, a centennial concert celebration of Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne. Chicago vocalist and producer Joan Curto will be joined by many of Chicago’s top artists including E. Faye Butler, Beckie Menzie, Tammy McCann, Paul Marinaro, Tom Michael and Sophie Grimm with a 17-piece orchestra featuring songs from the Great American Songbook.
Read MoreThe 2017 Equity Jeff Awards, Firebrand Theatre's LIZZIE, The Importance of Being Earnest at Writers and the Court Theatre production of Belle of Amherst are just a few of theatre openings in the week ahead.
Read MoreOur Conversation this week comes in the form of a letter from Ron Keaton. Ron agreed to step in when business called me out of town. It was a chance for Ron to give his unique point of view on a big night of recognition for Chicago's professional theatre community and share comments from award recipients in many of the categories.
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Glen Shuld kept a journal every day for a year in his life. He happened to be 12 years old at the time and attending an integrated grade school during the Vietnam era.
Read MoreMusic everywhere this fall with Steve Biossat's Sway Chicago on Friday and the Flat Cats on Saturday at the Drake and a full slate at Davenport's
Read MoreThe excitement you feel these days in Joffrey Tower is kinetic energy. It has been steadily pulsing for ten years, since the company moved into their new home, under the artistic direction of Ashley Wheater, who took over the role held only by Robert Joffrey and co-founder Gerald Arpino before him. If that was a pivotal moment in the evolving story of the Joffrey Ballet – a seismic shift of sorts that rumbled across the performing arts world - then the announcement a few weeks ago that the Joffrey Ballet was forming a partnership with Lyric Opera was a bolt of lightning.
Read MoreAshley Wheater joins the conversation this week to talk about his ten years at the Joffrey Ballet, the recently announced partnership with Lyric Opera and the upcoming opening of Giselle.
Read MoreThe week that was included the opening of the not-to-be-missed Chicago premiere of FUN HOME at Victory Gardens, an all-woman cast in Barbara Gaines re-imagined The Taming of the Shrew at Chicago Shakes, Five Guys Named Moe at Court Theatre and the gripping production of A View From the Bridge at Goodman Theatre. And this is just the beginning!
Read MoreFor Brenda Didier, directing Porchlight Music Theatre's production of Billy Elliot The Musical is like coming home again. The show opens the company's 23rd season in their new digs at the Ruth Page Center in Chicago a place that is very familiar to Didier. She has vivid memories as a young dance student. And perhaps most helpful, particularly to the story of Billy Elliot, is rekindling the excitement she experienced realizing her own dream that began when she was eight years old.
Read MoreNew theatrical productions, music and entertainment all over Chicago are in full swing . Dozens of shows are currently running, in previews, opening soon or deep into rehearsals - a schedule jam-packed with something for everyone!
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There's a little motto that the amazing E. Faye Butler saved until the end of our delightful conversation between rehearsals on September 8th at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
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