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'The Jungle Book' at Goodman Theatre: When Mary met Walt (and Rudyard)
Rudyard Kipling hated Chicago. "It holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta," wrote the man whom George Orwell dubbed "the prophet of British imperialism in its expansionist phase,"...
Tags: Movies, Aladdin (movie), Entertainment, Media Industry, Theater
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Tonys 2013: Nathan Lane varies his pace
NEW YORK — If you were to incarnate the spirit of Broadway — the talent, the showmanship, the stamina for roller coaster rides — Nathan Lane would likely be your man. A first banana with the most hilarious holler since Lou Costello's...Tags: Celebrities, Greenwich Village, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Entertainment, Robin Williams
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A moment to talk arts parking
There are many reasons to complain about the notorious parking deal made between the City of Chicago and Chicago Parking Meters LLC, some four years ago under Mayor Richard M. Daley. The rates are outrageously high; the profits for the private-sector...
Tags: The Book of Mormon (musical), Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Entertainment, Union Pacific Corporation
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Phylicia Rashad To Be Honored At Westport Gala
Hartford CourantTony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad, who directed Westport Country Playhouse’s production of “A Raisin in the Sun” last fall (and who wlll also be staging the upcoming production of “Fences” at New Haven’s Long Wharf...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Long Wharf Theatre, Lincoln Center, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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Crain's gets contract to publish CSO program
Tribune reporterJust call it Crain’s Chicago “Show” Business. Beginning in September, Crain’s is replacing Playbill as publisher of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s program guide in a three-year deal. “We’ve been...Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Culture, Arts and Culture, Book, The Second City
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Goodman gala brings 'Jungle Book' to life
Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" came to life May18 at the Fairmont Chicago hotel for more than 700 people in attendance at the Goodman Theatre Gala. The evening featured the first musical performance of selected songs from the theater's new summer...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Theater
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Musicals to 'LeapFest,' 41 more shows for your summer
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of your house and into the long-delayed sunny season, Chicago theaters of all sizes unleash some of their most promising offerings of the year. When you're ready for a break from the beach and the ballpark,...
Tags: Steppenwolf Theatre, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Jerry Lee Lewis, The Jungle Book (movie), LGBT Pride Month
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Ravinia Festival, Killer Joe (movie), Joffrey Ballet, Dining and Drinking, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Health Treatments, Ewing's sarcoma, Cancer, Biology
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Summer 2013: 10 theater shows for a sunny Chicago
Two components of many a Chicago summer of live entertainment are absent this year — there's no Cirque du Soleil tent at the United Center and no Riverfront Theater at the Tribune Company's Freedom Center. So you'll have to go camping for fun...
Tags: Celebrities, Steppenwolf Theatre, Boeing Co., The Jungle Book (movie), Cirque du Soleil
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Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" Wins Pulitzer Prize
Hartford Courant"Disgraced," by Ayad Akhtar, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his work in his off-Broadway play depicting "a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage." The play...Tags: Hartford Stage, London Theatre, Greenwich Village, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment
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Dick Meyers' Puppetry Project Set for UConn
Hartford Courant"Cinderella" and" Beauty and the Beast" will make up "The Dick Meyers Project," featuring UConn puppet Arts graduate student Seth Shaffer at the Studio Theatre in Storrs, Thursday, April 11 to Sunday, April 14. Connecticut Repertory Theatre's family...Tags: Connecticut Repertory Theatre, University of Cincinnati, Storrs, Frank Oz, Science and Technology
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