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Shakespeare at Notre Dame announces 2015 season

Johnny Oleksinski

Shakespeare at Notre Dame in Indiana has announced its 2015 season. This season, the company’s 16th year, will be its first subscription series.

Beyond Chicago
Cromer to direct 'Angels in America' at Kansas City Rep
Johnny Oleksinski

David Cromer will direct both parts of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika,” at Kansas City Repertory Theatre in Missouri, the theater has announced.
THEATER
REVIEW: 'Sweeney Todd' by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★
Chris Jones

Like those with the misfortune to bare their necks to the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the Porchlight Music Theatre production of "Sweeney Todd" has its good and bad moments. But, to paraphrase (or bowdlerize) the Baker's Wife in "Into the Woods," if a Stephen Sondheim show were only...

Beyond Chicago
London for fall 2014: A Kinks musical, Lindsay Lohan and the royal family
Sam Marlowe

With the first rustling of autumn comes the beginning of what is invariably the most exciting season of the theatrical calendar. This year, it's looking a little bit rock 'n' roll — and a roster of compelling women is central to the most intriguing prospects. Here to illuminate the...
Theater Loop
Stratford Festival announces 2015 season
Chris Jones

The Stratford Festival of Canada, a popular summer destination for Midwesterners, has announced its 2015 season, themed around “eureka” moments, which it defines not unlike how Oprah Winfrey defined “Aha!” moments.

Beyond Chicago
REVIEW: 'Shakespeare in Love' at the Noel Coward Theatre, London
Sam Marlowe

LONDON - "Comedy, love, and a bit with a dog": that, pronounces Philip Henslowe, the Elizabethan theatrical impresario, is the recipe for success. Lee Hall's world premiere adaptation at the Noel Coward Theatre of the 1998 Oscar-winning film "Shakespeare in Love" features all three of those...
Beyond Chicago
REVIEW: The Stratford Festival's "King Lear," "King John," "Crazy For You" and others
Chris Jones

STRATFORD, Ontario — King Lear is all over the English-speaking world this season: John Lithgow railing in Central Park; Simon Russell Beale roaring at the National Theatre in London; Frank Langella raging at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. And here in the verdant Canadian pastures of...

Trib Nation
SEPT. 5-7 | Theater Loop Goes to the Stratford Festival
This summer, join The Theater Loop on a getaway to Ontario, Canada. “Press Pass: Theater Loop Goes to Stratford Festival” is a chartered travel package to the world-renowned Stratford Fest. Chicago Tribune theater critic Chris Jones will host this three-day getaway to the leading...
Beyond Chicago
REVIEW: "Clarence Darrow" at the Old Vic Theatre, London
Sam Marlowe

He comes into view feet-first: a pair of battered brogues emerging with a series of loud thumps from beneath a cluttered desk, battering open a drawer jammed by overflowing paperwork. In the two hours that follow, Kevin Spacey's Clarence Darrow — champion of the underdog, attorney for the...

Beyond Chicago
REVIEW: 'The Elixir of Love' by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis
John von Rhein

St. LOUIS – From all evidence, a growing number of Chicago opera buffs rely on the Opera Theatre of St. Louis to help satisfy their cravings during the spring-summer dry spell when neither Lyric Opera nor Chicago Opera Theater is open for business.
Theater Loop
Letter from London: Begin your theater summer with a LIFT
Sam Marlowe

Come August, the London theatre scene often shivers in the shadow of that north-of-the-border knees-up gargantuan, the Edinburgh Festival.

Beyond Chicago
American Players Theatre announces 2014 season
Johnny Oleksinski

American Players Theatre, the 35-year-old company stationed among the trees of Spring Green, Wisconsin, has announced its 2014 season. 2014 is the first year under the leadership of new artistic director, Brenda DeVita, who is directing one production this season.
Beyond Chicago
Actors Theatre of Louisville announces 2014-15 season
Johnny Oleksinski

The Actors Theatre of Louisville has announced its 2014-15 season, the theater’s fifty-first.