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Court Theatre announces 2013-14 season
Court Theatre, the longstanding Equity company in residence at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park, will stage the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's Broadway play about Martin Luther King, Jr., "The Mountaintop," as part of its 2013-14 season, along...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Pulitzer Prize Awards, University of Chicago, Entertainment Events, Hyde Park
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Victory Gardens announces smaller season, Sandra Oh
Citing the need for financial responsibility and a desire to conserve resources for the 40th anniversary season, Victory Gardens Theater artistic director Chay Yew announced Monday that the venerable non-profit will have a 2013-14 subscription season of...
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'Chinglish' to close on Broadway
The Goodman Theatre production of David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," which transferred to Broadway this fall, will mis-translate its last phrase on Jan. 29. Producer Jeffrey Richards announced Monday that the show, which received mixed reviews in New...Tags: Goodman Theatre, Broadway Theater
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Broadway casting set for 'Chinglish'
The entire Goodman Theatre cast of David Henry Hwang's “Chinglish” will reprise their roles on Broadway this fall. With one exception. The central role of Daniel, played at the Goodman by James Waterston, will now be played by Gary Wilmes....Tags: Gary Wilmes, Goodman Theatre, Broadway Theater, James Waterston
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Broadway for fall 2011: 'Follies,' 'Godspell,' 'Chinglish' and 'On a Clear Day'
![— The fall on Broadway started early this year. And auspiciously. Transferring from the Kennedy Center in Washington, Eric Schaeffer's lush, raw and <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/chi-follies-review-broadway-20110912,0,6030240.column" target="_blank">moving revival of "Follies,"</a> the classic 1971 musical by James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim, set the bar that all other musical revivals will have to beat this season.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-09/64781209-15105747.jpg "— The fall on Broadway started early this year. And auspiciously. Transferring from the Kennedy Center in Washington, Eric Schaeffer's lush, raw and <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/chi-follies-review-broadway-20110912,0,6030240.column\" target=\"_blank\">moving revival of \"Follies,\"</a> the classic 1971 musical by James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim, set the bar that all other musical revivals will have to beat this season.")
— The fall on Broadway started early this year. And auspiciously. Transferring from the Kennedy Center in Washington, Eric Schaeffer's lush, raw and moving revival of "Follies," the classic 1971 musical by James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim, set the...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, China, Alicia Keys, Music Theater
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Laughs in translation in David Henry Hwang's shrewd new 'Chinglish'
At the moment in David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish" when Sino-American business relations develop to the point a Chinese buyer and a U.S. seller find themselves in bed together, you get a sudden flashback to "M. Butterfly." That brilliant 23-year-old drama,...Tags: Theater, Trips and Vacations, Entertainment, China, Music Theater
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Pacific rim shot: Comic 'Chinglish' hits Broadway
![NEW YORK — David Henry Hwang's direct-from-Chicago comedy "Chinglish" arrives on Broadway amid a crowded fall for new American plays. This arresting and amusing riff on the innumerable translation problems — of language, culture, love — that result when Westerners try to make overtures across the Pacific has broadened (and tensed up) on the eastward migration of director Leigh Silverman's production. But "Chinglish" remains a fascinating comic bookend to "M. Butterfly," the more serious and softer-gauzed 1988 play that launched the career of America's foremost dramatic chronicler of East-West relations.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-10/65700676-27132748.jpg "NEW YORK — David Henry Hwang's direct-from-Chicago comedy "Chinglish\" arrives on Broadway amid a crowded fall for new American plays. This arresting and amusing riff on the innumerable translation problems — of language, culture, love — that result when Westerners try to make overtures across the Pacific has broadened (and tensed up) on the eastward migration of director Leigh Silverman's production. But \"Chinglish\" remains a fascinating comic bookend to \"M. Butterfly,\" the more serious and softer-gauzed 1988 play that launched the career of America's foremost dramatic chronicler of East-West relations.")
NEW YORK — David Henry Hwang's direct-from-Chicago comedy "Chinglish" arrives on Broadway amid a crowded fall for new American plays. This arresting and amusing riff on the innumerable translation problems — of language, culture, love —...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, China, Jon Stewart, Gary Wilmes
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Sondheim, and not only he, heads to Chicago Shakespeare
It was an afternoon to remember at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In the same audience for the Sunday matinee of Gary Griffin's production of "Follies" were the much-awarded playwright David Henry Hwang, the British theatrical giant Sir Peter Hall and...Tags: Peter Hall, Awards and Prizes, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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'Madness' and 'Candide' are top Jeff Award winners
![Director Penny Metropulos' stirring take on Alan Bennett's "The Madness of George III" and Mary Zimmerman's revisionist production of "Candide" at the Goodman Theatre shared top honors for large theaters at the 2011 Joseph Jefferson Awards, with the Remy Bumppo Theatre production of Edwards Albee's "The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?" and American Theater Company's retro, Chicago-style version of "The Original Grease" honored as the best shows of the year in Chicago's mid-size Equity theaters.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-11/65923545-08080445.jpg "Director Penny Metropulos' stirring take on Alan Bennett's "The Madness of George III\" and Mary Zimmerman's revisionist production of \"Candide\" at the Goodman Theatre shared top honors for large theaters at the 2011 Joseph Jefferson Awards, with the Remy Bumppo Theatre production of Edwards Albee's \"The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?\" and American Theater Company's retro, Chicago-style version of \"The Original Grease\" honored as the best shows of the year in Chicago's mid-size Equity theaters.")
Director Penny Metropulos' stirring take on Alan Bennett's "The Madness of George III" and Mary Zimmerman's revisionist production of "Candide" at the Goodman Theatre shared top honors for large theaters at the 2011 Joseph Jefferson Awards, with the...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, John Mahoney, Edward Albee, Celebrities
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'Chinglish' exits, goes clean, attracts pols
The Broadway-bound Goodman Theatre production of David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish" closed Sunday, replete with sold-out houses and a couple of local theater-loving pols in the house during the final extension weekend: Mayor Rahm Emanuel showed up Friday and...Tags: Theater, Entertainment, Government, Music Theater, Broadway Theater
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Long Beach Opera's Andreas Mitisek adds a new post in Chicago
Culture MonsterDefying the conventional wisdom that two heads are better than one, Long Beach Opera and Chicago Opera Theater announced Wednesday that the adventurous Southern California company’s general director, Andreas Mitisek, will do double duty starting...
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