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Dance Top 5: November 2024. Many premieres, mix rep programs and dance series for November! There is magic in the setting for Kokandy Productions’ fine and intimate telling of Stephen Sondheim’s 1986 musical “Into the Woods”—a tale of wishes, spells and deadly danger. Remy Bumppo’s “Dear Elizabeth” is a superb example of ...
Review: "The Marriage of Figaro" at Lyric Opera Chicago
15 hours ago · Lyric’s “The Marriage of Figaro” is through November 30 at Lyric Opera House, 20 North Wacker Drive. Showtimes are November 9 and 13, 7pm; a matinee on November 17, 2pm; November 19, 7pm; matinees on November 21, 24, and 27, at 2pm; and November 30, 7pm. Tickets are available at lyricopera.org or by calling (312)827-5600.
Top Chicago Theater Shows to See: November 2024
Nov 4, 2024 · 1. The Marriage of Figaro. (Lyric Opera) Chicago Shakes founder Barbara Gaines returns to direct Mozart’s masterpiece. Starts November 9. 2. New Faces Sing Broadway Now. (Porchlight) Adrian Aguilar hosts a ninety-minute revue of the “hottest shows on Broadway now.”.
Chicago Theater and Musicals to See: October 2024
Sep 27, 2024 · Stage Top 5: October 2024. by Brian Hieggelke | September 27, 2024. The three-time Tony Award-winner sings her life in songs. The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Chicago for the first time in thirty years. The Tony and Grammy Award-winner finally gets to Chicago, after the pandemic pushed it out of town.
Review: “Leroy and Lucy” at Steppenwolf Theatre Chicago
5 days ago · The audience is like Leroy, unable to resist the temptation of beauty, wisdom and finding the sacred within. “Leroy and Lucy” is through December 15 at Steppenwolf’s Ensemble Theater, 1646 North Halsted. Showtimes are Tuesdays-Fridays at 7:30pm; Saturdays at 3pm and 7:30pm; and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are $20-$92, available at steppenwolf ...
Understated Mystery: A Review of Gwydion Theatre Company’s …
4 days ago · Marie/Francesca—given vivid life by Sydney Feldman as a girl and teenager, and played as a grownup with a more subdued, veiled quality by Talia Langman—is a poor girl from an abusive family, a low-caste Catholic in a chauvinistically Protestant village, who serves as the butt of her fellow students’ considerable cruelty.
The Verdon Fosse Legacy Teams Up with Hubbard Street Dance …
6 days ago · Nicole Fosse, founder and artistic director of the Verdon Fosse Legacy, has been looking for a concert dance company to house her parents’ iconic work. Bob Fosse is perhaps the best-known choreographer on this continent—if not in name, then certainly aesthetics: slinky black costumes, bowler hats on tilted heads, slanting torsos and arms framing thrusting hips. Lucky for us in Chicago ...
Can’t-Miss Fall Stage Events (Fall Arts Preview 2024)
Sep 6, 2024 · Blue Lyric Opera of Chicago November 16-December 1 The Chicago premiere of this new opera, co-produced by the Lyric, promises to be poignant, heartbreaking and yet a musical treat, with a score by Tony Award-winner Jeanine Tesori, a powerful libretto by Tazewell Thompson and the Lyric premiere of bass Kenneth Kellogg. And the story, “of a Black middle-class family in Harlem whose hopes and ...
Players 50 2024: The Producers and Places | Newcity Stage
Jan 9, 2024 · Players 50 2024: The Music Makers. Players 50 2024: The Advocates and Changemakers. Players 50 2024: The Institutions. Players 50 2024: The Rising Stars and Storefront Stalwarts. Here are the Players from Chicago’s producers and places. Victor Alexander/Photo: Joe Mazza | brave lux. Victor Alexander.
Dance Top 5: November 2024 | Newcity Stage
Oct 30, 2024 · November 15-24. 2. The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. (Harris Theater) Acclaimed Canadian director Robert Lepage and choreographer/dancer Guillaume Côté team up to adapt the bard’s great tragedy into a dance theater production, making its U.S. debut at the Harris. November 23-24. 3.