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Chicago has had a long relationship with reggae music most notably at clubs like the Wild Hare (formerly the Wild Hare and Singing Armadillo in Wrigleyville) now resurrected with food and drink near Halsted and Diversey, about a block south of Guitar Center. This release …
There’s plenty to like about this Broadway in Chicago road tour theatrical extravaganza loosely based on the true-life story of a woman claiming to be the surviving daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. Running now through April 7, 2019 at the Nederlander Theater on …
This episode of Authors Showcase features author Barbara Barnett speaking about and reading from her novel “Apothecary’s Curse” set partly on the Chicago area and partly n Victorian London.
Listen to the podcast above or watch the video recorded version below.
The Chicago version of Authors Showcase features authors based in Chicago or books about Chicago or Chicago related themes and is produced for ChicagoBroadcastingNetwork.com in conjunction with AuthorsBroadcast.com.
This version of “A Bronx Tale” based on an off-Broadway one-man play by Chazz Palmintiri and later turned into the popular 1993 Robert De Niro movie of the same name has added music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Glenn Slater to produce a very …
Review Summary: “The Choir of Man” at the Broadway Playhouse at Chicago’s Water Tower Place mall on Michigan Avenue is more boy band concert than Broadway musical. Featuring nine very energetic, vocally talented, male singers purported to be “regulars” at a traditional Irish Pub named …
Well, Jodie Jacobs of ChicagoTheaterandArts.com and I got together to produce a full-length hour long podcast chatting about the plays we saw in 2018.
We talked about those plays we found to be intelligent and thought-provoking as well as those that were just fun and entertaining.
Shakespeare seemed to surface several times this year for both of us including the Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier as well as performances around the city in venues large and small.
There were a number of experimental offerings several of which had to do with Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” which celebrated its 200th Anniversary of publication and launched a number of incarnations.
So sit back and relax or listen while you drive, exercise or work. Then let us know what Chicago plays you enjoyed and what you are looking forward to 2019.
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Reno Lovison, Executive Producer
Bob (H.B. Ward) and Jennifer (Linda Reiter) Jones are surprised to meet their new neighbors, Pony (Cortney McKenna), and John ( Joseph Wiens) who also share the same last name. The two couples have an ongoing series of absurd conversations that actually do get to …
Chicago is home to approximately 150,000 individuals who identify as Asian. This February was the beginning of the Lunar New Year hailed as The Year of the Pig according to the Chinese Zodiac. According to TheChineseZodiac.org, this is a great year to make money, and …
Until now I have generally dedicated one podcast to one review. In this episode, I thought I would do something a little different and talk about two plays I recently reviewed for ChicagoTheaterandArts.com.
The first is “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” at the Greenhouse Theatre Center near Lincoln and Fullerton and the Second is ‘Brooke Astor’s Last Affair’ which is part of The Chicago Musical Theatre Festival running through February 24, 2019, at the Edge Theater on Broadway in the Edgewater neighborhood.
CORRECTION:
In my review for “Brooke Astor’s Last Affair,” I am a bit harsh in my comments about the set design and costumes. Since then I have read more about the mission of the festival and see that the festival producers specifically say:
CMTF is designed to showcase musical theatre writing talent, and not to showcase how much you can spend on set design and fancy production whizbangs and flibbertigibbets. read more
Until recently Rosalind Franklin had gone virtually un-credited for her contribution to the discovery revealing the structure of DNA to be a double helix. The discovery ultimately earned Franklin’s research colleague Maurice Wilkins and two rival collaborators James Watson and Francis Crick the Nobel Prize. “Photograph …
The Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting an encore series through January 31, 2019 of its attractively updated version of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme” directed by Richard Jones which launched the 2018/2019 season accompanied by the very capable Lyric Orchestra under the direction of Domingo Hindoyan. …
The world premiere of “La Ruta” at the Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago by playwright Isaac Gomez has figuratively commandeered a bus transporting “maquila” workers to and from their jobs in Juarez, pointing its headlights into the vast darkness to expose the despair and anguish of the mothers and sisters of hundreds of women kidnapped, used as sex slaves, murdered and disposed of like trash in the Mexican desert.
According to Gomez this is a story that has been systematically silenced through intimidation and adherence to a Latin American culture of toxic masculinity, or “machista.”
“La Ruta” focuses on the few days leading up to and the nearly three years following the disappearance of “Brenda” played by Cher Alvarez and is based on a compilation of a number of true stories.
Listen to the full audio review by Reno Lovison in the Pod O’ Matic player above, subscribe at Spotify or read it entirely at ChicagoTheaterandArts.com