Articles filed under Short and Sweet Theater Reviews
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'Fun Home,' 'Finding Neverland' part of Broadway in Chicago seasonOct 13, 2015 1:00 am - Broadway in Chicago announced Tuesday that its 2016 season of shows will include a Broadway-bound world premiere, Windy City debuts of current Broadway hits "Fun Home" a...
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Inspired by Richard Pryor, 'Unspeakable' starts Chicago runOct 04, 2015 7:15 am - Disclaimers accompany most of the advertising for the new play “Unspeakable,” which begins a five-week engagement starting Tuesday at Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Wat...
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Tony-winning 'Gentleman's Guide' a devilish delightOct 03, 2015 1:00 am - Call it the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme. A fatal fall here. A drowning there. And Monty Navarro is well on his way to family fortune in the Tony Award-winning musical...
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'Gentleman's Guide' tour launches at Bank of America TheatreSep 27, 2015 7:00 am - YouTube Actor Matt Leisy, a graduate of Northwestern University, got to experience some of the success of #8220;A Gentleman's Guide ...#8221; firsthand. Not only did Lei...
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SpongeBob aims for Broadway via ChicagoAug 31, 2015 1:00 am - Nickelodeon's hit animated TV series “SpongeBob SquarePants” is aiming to make the leap to the Broadway stage with a world premiere of “The SpongeBob Musical” in Chicago...
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Former Joffrey Ballet dancer turns to 'Dirty Dancing'Aug 15, 2015 7:00 am - In the middle of her fifth season of dancing with the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, Jenny Winton was offered an audition out of the blue for the national tour of "Dirty Dan...
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Short & Sweet critics Shirlanne Lemm and Jamie Cheesebro review Pippin with Diana MartinezAug 05, 2015 1:00 am - Critics for the day - co-workers Shirlanne Lemm and Jamie Cheesebro of Carol Stream - joined forces to review Pippin. Lemm and Cheesebro, who work together at the GOA R...
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Clever circus staging reframes 'Pippin' as true spectacleJul 30, 2015 1:00 am - If ever there was a musical that desperately needed a visionary director to shape it into a triumph of style over substance, that would be "Pippin." And by all accounts,...
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'Pippin' tour pays homage to the pastJul 24, 2015 6:00 am - The 2013 Broadway revival of "Pippin" re-imagined the original 1972 musical from top to bottom. Yet this three-time Tony Award-winning production, touring to Chicago's C...
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Short & Sweet critic Sharon Kuhn reviews Kinky Boots with Diana Martinez of Broadway in ChicagoJul 11, 2015 1:00 am - Short and Sweet critic Sharon Kuhn of Wheeling shares her impressions of the show Kinky Boots with Diana Martinez of Broadway in Chicago. According to Kuhn, the show wa...