Highlights
Under the artistic direction of Barbara Gaines. Primarily programs work from William Shakespeare's canon; also presents quality work from American and international playwrights and directors. First production was in 1986 on the roof of the Red Lion Pub in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Its current home is in a new, $24 million, multi-venue facility on Navy Pier, which houses the 500-seat mainstage and a 200-seat flexible black box theater. Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier, 800 E. Grand Ave.; 312-595-5600.
Under the artistic direction of Barbara Gaines. Primarily programs work from William Shakespeare's canon; also presents quality work from American and international playwrights and directors. First production was in 1986 on the roof of the Red Lion Pub in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. Its current home is in a new, $24 million, multi-venue facility on Navy Pier, which houses the 500-seat mainstage and a 200-seat flexible black box theater. Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier, 800 E. Grand Ave.; 312-595-5600.
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Fast and furious 'Edward' puts Marlowe in mosh pit
Chicago Tribune criticNo young director I've seen is better than Sean Graney at promenade staging: a kind of theater where the audience is shoved into a big, open space with the actors, and the two sides duke it out for dominance. Promenade stagings I've seen over the years...Tags: Christopher Marlowe, Tony Rezko, Navy Pier, Barack Obama, Celebrity
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Chris Jones recommends
Amadeus *** "Amadeus" might look like a 1979 drama about two rival composers in the Austrian court, but it's really a meditation on genius, mediocrity and, above all, jealousy. Gary Griffin's rich revival has enigmatic performances from Robert Sella as...Tags: Tony Kushner, William Inge, Glencoe, Bank of America Corp., Music Theater
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Raving madness and a little music
"Amadeus" is the Mozart story told through the green-tinted eyes of rival composer Antonio Salieri; it was a 1979 Broadway production by Peter Schaffer before it was the 1984 Oscar-winning movie of the same title. Mozart was the genius, but he was also...Tags: Navy Pier, Antonio Salieri
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'Amadeus' plays out as deftly cast tale of rivals
Chicago Tribune criticIf a production of Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" is any good, your head briefly leaves the play somewhere in the second act. And you start to wonder who in your past might have intentionally sabotaged your career. It was easy to do in 18th-Century Vienna and...Tags: Peter Shaffer, Navy Pier, Academy Awards, Antonio Salieri
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This week
Friday My Name is Rachel Corrie: This controversial docudrama about a young American killed in the Gaza Strip ignited a firestorm when New York's Public Theater announced plans for its American premiere. Purple Bench Productions is the first Chicago...Tags: Mel Brooks, ABBA, Leonard Bernstein, Metra, Evanston
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What's your taste? Our chart of 44 shows
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEWell, it's been quite a year for Chicago, and we're not just talking winning baseball teams, our first " Top Chef," and a certain local politico who is in the race for the White House. Chicago theater has been taking home trophies by the truckload in...Tags: Tommy Tune, August, Tony Kushner, Major League Baseball, Water Tower Place
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Chris Jones' Top 10 for the season
Tribune staff reporterYou can see a new show in this singularly remarkable theater city pretty much every night between now and Thanksgiving. That's my plan, anyway. But if you prefer to be more selective, or prosaic necessities limit your cultural intake, here are 10 of the...Tags: Thanksgiving, Tommy Tune, Palace Theater, Tony Kushner, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Stage ticker
American Theater Company has hired Thomas Newberry as its new executive director; Newberry comes from the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. ATC also has added the Chicago premiere of Itamar Moses' "Celebrity Row" to its 2008-09 season, to be directed by...Tags: First National Corporation, Lincolnshire, Marriott Theatre
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Hottest ticket
Willy Wonka: Roald Dahl's children's story, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," is delicious in its appeal and scrumptious in its un-Disneylike political incorrectness. And the 1971 movie came with some fantastic songs ("The Candy Man," "Pure...Tags: Roald Dahl, Navy Pier, Defense, Armed Forces
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Stage guide
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. PREVIEWS AND OPENINGS—CITY Fair Use: A new suspense thriller about government-sanctioned discrimination by Jason Wells ("Men of Tortuga") in which a scientist and his wife become...Tags: Little Village, Society, Lake Shore Drive, Elizabeth Pena, Clubs and Associations
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Bard takes the stage in Stratford, Ontario
Chicago Tribune criticSTRATFORD, Ontario—Only in Stratford does a hotel desk-clerk launch, unprompted, into a deeply informed discussion of the merits of pairing the works of Samuel Beckett with those of Eugene O'Neill. Only here do you run into Christopher Plummer on...Tags: Goodman Theatre, Brian Dennehy, Jessica Tandy, Samuel Beckett, Naperville
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A 'Willy Wonka' confection on Navy Pier
A year or two ago, a major Broadway producer told me, sotto voce, that he thought he had the Broadway rights to "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Well, I thought: Oompa, Loompa, Doompa-Dee-Do. It's hard to imagine better source material for a...Tags: Dennis DeYoung, Roald Dahl, Music Theater, Sammy Davis Jr., Fiction
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