A varied and inviting series of theater and dance programs is right in our own backyard, but many of us miss it. The Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern’s School of Communication is celebrating its 30th season this year with fabulous productions and behind-the-scenes tours just for families. Here’s what is coming up: “Spinning into […]
Providing riffs on everything from “Survivor” to Ginger Rogers’ films, the seven member touring circus of 7 Fingers provide punk rock intensity along with classical grace in the nonlinear, ‘Blue Man Group’ style “Traces.” In between feats of flipping, human cannon balling and high wire theatrics, this troupe, with inevitable comparisons to Cirque du Soleil, […]
Briana DeGiulio, who grew up in Wilmette, stars in the Chicago Children’s Theater’s hit musical “The Hundred Dresses.” The show is adapted from the classic story about bullying and the importance of bystander intervention. We talked with Briana about her role and the play: What is “The Hundred Dresses” about? My character comes from Poland. […]
“The Hundred Dresses” is the story of Wanda Petronsi, a girl who has recently immigrated from Poland and struggles to adjust to her new American home and her not-so-friendly classmates. The story takes place in the 1940s, but feels contemporary and fresh—nothing has changed in the struggle to find friends and find your place in […]
Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is all mists, moonbeams and mischief, and Benjamin Britten’s opera of the same name, running at Lyric Opera of Chicago through Nov. 23, delivers them with twinkling merriment. From a chorus of singing sprites costumed like the dear little creatures from the “Close Encounters” spaceship to an Oberon who rides […]
Thanks to all involved in the Citadel Theatre’s production of local playwright Ann Noble’s “The Boarding House,” the seamless transportation to a post-World War ll love story— resplendent with emotional warfare and physical conflict—was a fabulous journey indeed. A serious head injury discharges Dell, (Michael Bullaro) from the armed services. Disembarked in New York […]
Theaters on the North Shore came home with few laurels from the 42nd annual Jeff Equity Awards Monday evening Oct. 25 at Drury Lane Oakbrook.
Northlight Theatre 9501 Skokie Blvd. 847-673-6300 Thursday, November 12 – Sunday, December 20: “Souvenir” Next Theatre 927 Noyes St., Evanston 847-475-1875 Through November 29: “End Days” Writers’ Theatre 325 Tudor Ct., Glencoe 664 Vernon Ave., Glencoe 847-242-6000 Tuesday, November 17 – March 21: “Oh Coward!” Through December 6: “Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead” Cahn Auditorium […]
Carmen is one of opera’s very bad girls. She seduces and then abandons her lovers about every six months, leaving them in various states of despair. But the weak-willed Don Jose, a Spanish soldier who deserts his regiment for her, will be her undoing. Lyric Opera of Chicago opened its production of Bizet’s “Carmen” […]
The beauty of motion, the joy of dance, the shapes and choreographed patterns expressed through the human body all come together during the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago’s fall program, “All Stars,” at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. The most stunning work of the program is Christopher Wheeldon‘s 2005 “After the Rain,” a Joffrey premiere, […]
