The British comedian, actor and activist Eddie Izzard is coming to Chicago Shakespeare Theater with her solo performance of “Hamlet,” according to an announcement Tuesday by the theater. The play, which was adapted from Shakespeare by her brother Mark Izzard, previously played in New York at the Orpheum and Greenwich House Theaters, directed by Selina… Continue reading Eddie Izzard brings her solo ‘Hamlet’ to Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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Theater D performs ‘Noises Off’ in Deerfield
What could be funnier than a comedy about putting on a comedy? Audiences and critics have been praising Michael Frayn’s hilarious British farce, “Noises Off,” based on that premise, since it was first produced in 1982 in London. The 1983 Broadway production was nominated for a Best Play Tony Award. Theater D is producing that… Continue reading Theater D performs ‘Noises Off’ in Deerfield
Batavia theater offers dementia-friendly screenings
Emagine Entertainment’s Batavia location is the first Illinois location to screen movies specifically for people with dementia and their caregivers. Emagine Entertainment developed the Dementia Friendly Screenings program in March 2023 in Saline, Michigan, as a way to help people with dementia and memory issues enjoy movies in a comfortable setting, said Trevor Baker, chief… Continue reading Batavia theater offers dementia-friendly screenings
Theater Review: Shayok Chowdhury’s ‘Public Obscenities’
From Public Obscenities, at Theatre for a New Audience. Photo: Hollis King Plays tend to teach you how to watch them within the first five minutes. The good ones do it deliberately, the not-so-good ones less so. The fiction writer Rob Spillman calls it the “handshake.” A writer introduces themself — tells you, through the… Continue reading Theater Review: Shayok Chowdhury’s ‘Public Obscenities’
2024’s Most Anticipated Upcoming Broadway Shows and Theater
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Mason Poole, Polk & Co., Amanda Searle, Emilio Madrid This spring’s schedule is already crammed with competition. Broadway, in the run-up to the Tony awards in March and April, will bring an Oscar party’s worth of of high-profile visitors to New York — Jeremy Strong doing Ibsen, Eddie Redmayne in Cabaret, Rachel McAdams… Continue reading 2024’s Most Anticipated Upcoming Broadway Shows and Theater
Theater Review: Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Dig’
Jeffrey Bean and Andrea Syglowski in Theresa Rebeck’s Dig. Photo: James Leynse Sometimes, in watching a play, you get the surreal, frictionless feeling of seeing one event after another pile up in front of you without a sense of why it’s all happening. The characters may explain their motivations, and there might be a sort… Continue reading Theater Review: Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Dig’
Theater Review: ‘Prometheus Firebringer’
Annie Dorsen in Prometheus Firebringer. Photo: Maria Baranova Not to overdo it with the ancient Greekiness, but Prometheus Firebringer is a Pandora’s box: a compact container that might contain the end of the world. The “hybrid lecture performance” by director and writer Annie Dorsen, who is also the only living performer onstage, is less than… Continue reading Theater Review: ‘Prometheus Firebringer’
Theater Review: ‘The Shark Is Broken’
You should probably come into The Shark Is Broken knowing your lore. The play is set during the infamously troubled production of Jaws, the 1975 Steven Spielberg shark film that helped birth the modern blockbuster but seemed potentially dead in the water as it was being made. As you’ll at least infer from the title,… Continue reading Theater Review: ‘The Shark Is Broken’
Theater Review: ‘Back to the Future: The Musical’
From Back to the Future: The Musical, at the Winter Garden. Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman I think I first encountered Doc Brown and Marty McFly as a little kid on an amusement-park ride at Universal Studios, which I remember was confusing because I hadn’t yet seen any Back to the Future movies. Still,… Continue reading Theater Review: ‘Back to the Future: The Musical’
Theater Review: Danny Tejera’s ‘Toros’
Toros, from Second Stage. Photo: Joan Marcus/all rights reserved As far as I’m aware, a performance of Toros is the only place in New York where you can currently see a 63-year-old play a dying female golden retriever. At Second Stage’s uptown house on 76th Street, in the corner of a stage made up to… Continue reading Theater Review: Danny Tejera’s ‘Toros’