By now, people know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the man who goes from most hated to most loved after a night spent with the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. So why, then, do locals and tourists alike continue to make their way to Goodman Theatre for “A Christmas Carol” after […]
MIB TV got a behind the scenes look at our December cover shoot with the cast of “A Christmas Carol” at the Goodman Theatre. Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit weighed in on how practice and production have been going so far.
Grab your magnifying glass and put on your deerstalker because a classic whodunit has come to the North Shore. Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” the world’s longest-running play, begins on a snowy evening (an appropriate setting) as a couple celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary opens their guest house, Monkswell Manor. They soon realize that all of their […]
George and Ira Gershwin and Dubose Hayward’s “Porgy and Bess” is both a spectacle and a love story. It portrays a tight-knit community and a doomed couple, its focus careening back and forth between those opposite poles. Lyric Opera of Chicago brought that tale of African Americans on Catfish Row in South Carolina to pulsating […]
By the time Thanksgiving rolls around, expect a blizzard of holiday entertainment. But while Santa, Scrooge and George Bailey are waiting in the wings, November offers other sorts of theater: classic stories by Agatha Christie, Louisa May Alcott and Lewis Carroll, as well as a dramatic new perspective on the Virgin Mary. Lookingglass Alice Opens […]
Siam comes to life in Director Nick Bowling’s production of “The King and I,” where east meets west and a British schoolteacher dances with a king. Based on the 1944 novel “Anna and the King of Siam,” “The King and I” is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s fifth musical and follows the story of Anna, a widowed English schoolteacher […]
Vengeance! Passion! Kidnapping! Death! All this and more are on stage at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in its searing production of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece “Il Trovatore,” which opened at the Civic Opera House the evening of Oct. 29. Never mind that the story is unbelievable; the drama is unmistakable. From the first drum rolls […]
My immediate concern upon entering the Theater Witblack box to see the Griffin Theatre production of the Tony Award-winning musical “Titanic” (music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, book by Peter Stone): how will they pull off this huge show on a stage roughly the size of a first-class stateroom? The answer is, very cleverly. Director […]
I’ve heard “Amazing Grace” countless times, and not once have I thought, “This is definitely heading to Broadway.” However, the story behind the song feels like it belongs on stage in Chicago and, eventually, New York. One major reason for the success of Broadway in Chicago’s “Amazing Grace” is Josh Young, who received a 2014 […]
Eight years ago, halfway through the premier episode of ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” I fell hard for the character of Marc St. James, played by Michael Urie. He was feisty and fabulous, and played with such tremendous verve and attitude by the talented, Juilliard-trained actor that it was abundantly clear that a star was born. We […]
