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Best of Broadway 2014: A year to trust the paying customers

Chris Jones

Here's one striking truth about Broadway in 2014: There was an unusually rich correlation between quality and commercial success. This runs counter to a lot of the things often said about Broadway audiences. They're fickle, we're told. They won't pony up their money without a star on the...

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REVIEW: "The Cripple of Inishmaan" at the Cort Theatre
Chris Jones

NEW YORK — On the unforgiving island of Inishmaan, off Ireland's west coast, right by the Old Sod but peering out enviously in the direction of the Yanks, a young fella named Billy, who happens to suffer from a physical deformity, is not just Billy. Not in 1934. His moniker, good for...
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REVIEW: 'Rocky' at Winter Garden Theatre
Chris Jones

NEW YORK — Broadway's mostly doomed attempts at capturing the boundless American enthusiasm for professional sports, and the billions of associated dollars, have been handicapped by one crucial, constant failing — an inability to really depict the playing of the actual game....

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'Mothers and Sons' a moving reflection on a changed gay America
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: A quarter century ago during the AIDS crisis, as some Americans fought for the right just to die young with dignity, angry mothers could be seen at the funerals of their sons.
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Sting to anchor 'The Last Ship'
Johnny Oleksinski

Sting, the Grammy Award winning rock star and new Broadway composer, will step into his musical “The Last Ship” next month, according to a story first reported in the New York Times.

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Al Pacino and David Mamet return to Broadway
Chris Jones

Al Pacino is to return to Broadway in a new play by David Mamet next fall, the New York producer Jeffrey Richards announced Thursday.
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Broadway for fall 2014: 'Last Ship' and a boatload of big names
Chris Jones

Few longtime observers consider 2013-14 a vintage year for Broadway. So weak was the overall slate that most of the new offerings were outsold by longer-lived shows from previous seasons.

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Charles Troy wades deep into Broadway's history
Rick Kogan

Most of us, for reasons having to do with lack of talent, physical gifts or luck, must at some time give up our youthful dreams. And so we realized long ago that we would not be playing quarterback for the Bears, not be an astronaut and walk on the moon, never be cast in the remake of "Hello...
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Video: Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin & Tavi Gevinson
Johnny Oleksinski

"This Is Our Youth" starring Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson and Kieran Culkin is currently in previews at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. Chris Jones interviewed the cast in June when the show played Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

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Steppenwolf director to work with Larry David
Chris Jones

Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Anna D. Shapiro is to be at the helm of Larry David's upcoming Broadway production, entitled "Fish in the Dark."
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Mueller and 'Gentleman's Guide' take top Tonys
Chris Jones

In a victory for the well-crafted, the droll and the picaresque, the sleeper and financially struggling Broadway show “A Gentleman Guide to Love & Murder” won the Tony Award on Sunday night for best new musical, beating out the very popular “Beautiful - The Carole King...

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Video: Chris Jones reviews Broadway musicals
Johnny Oleksinski

Looking for a show to see in New York this spring? In this video, Tribune critic Chris Jones runs down five of the biggest Broadway musicals of the season: “Hedwig & The Angry Inch” starring Neil Patrick Harris, “Rocky,” “Aladdin,” “Bullets Over...
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Cynthia Nixon to direct 'Rasheeda Speaking' off-Broadway
Johnny Oleksinski

Joel Drake Johnson’s “Rasheeda Speaking,” which premiered in 2014 at Chicago’s Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, will mark actress Cynthia Nixon’s directorial debut, it was announced on Thursday. The drama’s New York debut will occur in January 2015 courtesy of the...
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It's official: Gary Griffin returns to Broadway with 'Honeymoon in Vegas'
Chris Jones

The Chicago-based director Gary Griffin is to return to Broadway in the coming season when the long-anticipated Paper Mill Playhouse production of "Honeymoon in Vegas" will transfer to Broadway. The show is based on the 1992 movie, dealing with marital shenanigans in Sin City.

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Videos: Jessie Mueller on Chicago stages
Johnny Oleksinski

Videos of Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller's performances in Chicago ...
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Gloria Estefan musical will premiere in Chicago
Chris Jones

Chicago will have the world premiere of a new Broadway-bound musical based on the life and music of the superstar singer Gloria Estefan and her entrepreneurial producer husband, Emilio Estefan, it was announced Tuesday.
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Puzzling over our picks, and those of the Tonys committee
Chris Jones

Complaining about awards — even those as lofty and financially crucial and historically significant as the Tony Awards — generally is a pointless exercise.
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Video: Chris Jones reviews Daniel Radcliffe, James Franco and more
Johnny Oleksinski

Looking for a show to see in New York this spring? In this video, Tribune critic Chris Jones runs down four of the biggest Broadway plays of the season: “The Realistic Joneses” starring Tracy Letts, Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and Michael C. Hall, “The Cripple of...
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'Violet' exits the bus, then loses its way
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: "Violet" at the American Airlines Theatre ... You can't help worrying about "Violet." Not just the smart girl with the scar who is at the heart of the tender and haunting little musical, but the rootsy show itself.

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'Act One' isn't the show Hart would have written
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: "Act One" in the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center
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'Of Mice and Men,' and of Chris O'Dowd's Lennie
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: 'Of Mice and Men' at the Longacre Theatre ... Many in the audience for "Of Mice and Men" are coming to see James Franco. But given director Anna D. Shapiro's long history with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble, it's perhaps not surprising ...
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'Soul Train' is headed to Broadway
Chris Jones

"Soul Train" is on track for Broadway, it was announced today.
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'Bullets over Broadway': Musical of mobsters and old standards
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: "Bullets Over Broadway" at the St. James Theatre
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Death and dark humor in 'Realistic Joneses'
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: "The Realistic Joneses" at the Lyceum Theatre

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Denzel doesn't fit Younger role in 'Raisin in the Sun'
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: "A Raisin in the Sun"
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'Breaking Bad' star Bryan Cranston gets his hooks into LBJ
Chris Jones

BROADWAY REVIEW: "All the Way" at the Neil Simon Theatre
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'Sex With Strangers' announces casting
Johnny Oleksinski

Casting was announced on Tuesday for Second Stage Theatre's production of Laura Eason's "Sex With Strangers," a play that had its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2009 as part of the First Look Repertory and was mounted again at that same theater in 2011.
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In 'Bridges' on Broadway, passions remain covered
Chris Jones

NEW YORK - As Francesca, the Iowa housewife at the heart of "The Bridges of Madison County," well knows, to love one's spouse and children and yet embark on an extramarital affair is to anticipate pain. But those first few rolls in the hay? Those, at least, are supposed to be passionate.
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Photo Gallery: James Franco and 'Of Mice and Men' cast at 'Luna Gale'
Johnny Oleksinski

On Saturday Feb. 22, the starry cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of “Of Mice and Men,” currently rehearsing in Chicago, stopped by the Goodman Theatre to take in a performance of “Luna Gale.” Directed by Anna D. Shapiro, “Of Mice and Men” stars James...

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