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    Dec 10, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. It's the sound of angels singing

    This year, women are very much in charge of the Congo Square Theatre's annual production of "The Nativity." Starting with the new director, Ilesa Duncan, and extending all the way up to Gabriel. That archangel is played this year by Alexis J. Rogers,...

    Tags: Music, Entertainment, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture

    2. Feb 6, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'Lady Day' a potent portrait of Billie Holiday

    THEATER REVIEW: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★ ... Billie Holiday was many things ¿ songwriter, vocalist, poet ...
    Billie Holiday was many things — songwriter, vocalist, poet, a woman whose jazz-influenced vocals forever changed the way singers interpret the American songbook. But for the actress Alexis J. Rogers, the singer also known as Lady Day is nothing...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music, Arts and Culture, Cirrhosis

    3. Jan 12, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 'Porgy and Bess' on Broadway is missing the push and pull

    For all the controversy that has surrounded Diane Paulus' revisionist Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess," or, as it now is billed, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," the considerable strengths of this production, which opened Thursday night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, are in the traditional pleasures of witnessing a passionate, beautifully sung, richly visualized, splendidly played and indisputably well-intentioned "Porgy." This is a great American opera filled with breathtaking stakes, towering characters and a thudding naturalistic intensity.
    For all the controversy that has surrounded Diane Paulus' revisionist Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess," or, as it now is billed, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," the considerable strengths of this production, which opened Thursday night at the Richard...

    Tags: Audra McDonald, Catfish, David Alan Grier, Arts and Culture, Human Interest

    4. Mar 30, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  4. Chris Erskine's take on 'Janis Joplin' show in Pasadena

    Into the decadent world of Pasadena we go. . . . More and more I am drawn to that little triangle of treasures near Vroman's Bookstore: the Laemmle theaters, of course, where the audiences are either amazingly reverential or fully asleep, and the little...

    Tags: Music, Entertainment, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin

    5. Dec 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. On New York stages, a year full of letdowns

    The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn. Consider the less-than-regal disappointments. "The Anarchist," the polemical new play by David Mamet, closed...

    Tags: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Entertainment, Music, William Shatner, Music Theater

    6. Nov 20, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. 'Songs of a Dream' needs a reality check

    Chicagoans know the husband-wife vocal duo of Alfreda Burke and Rodrick Dixon from their exemplary work in "Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah," which plays annually at the Auditorium Theatre.
    Chicagoans know the husband-wife vocal duo of Alfreda Burke and Rodrick Dixon from their exemplary work in "Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz-Gospel Messiah," which plays annually at the Auditorium Theatre. But on Sunday afternoon Burke and Dixon bowed at the...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music, Jerome Kern, Music Theater, Entertainment Events

    7. Sep 28, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Danny Goldring's long Chicago acting career paying off with 'Boss'

    Look at that face in the photo and try to tell me that is not a great neighborhood face. Aging handsomely and full of life, it is the face of actor Danny Goldring — even the name is neighborhood perfect, Danny — sitting in the barbershop that he has visited with regularity for the last 20 years.
    Look at that face in the photo and try to tell me that is not a great neighborhood face. Aging handsomely and full of life, it is the face of actor Danny Goldring — even the name is neighborhood perfect, Danny — sitting in the barbershop...

    Tags: Chicago Mayor, Kelsey Grammer, Entertainment, New York City Police Department, CNN (tv network)

    8. Jun 10, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. 'Once' in a lifetime night at 2012 Tony Awards; 'Clybourne Park' wins best play

    Broadway fell fast for "Once," the melancholy but moving movie-to-musical about a lovelorn Irish street musician and his Czech guardian angel, which scooped Disney's chirpier "Newsies: The Musical" for the award for best musical at the 2012 Tony Awards. Meanwhile "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' prismatic,Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about race and real estate on Chicago's complex North Side closed on the Tony for best play.
    Broadway fell fast for "Once," the melancholy but moving movie-to-musical about a lovelorn Irish street musician and his Czech guardian angel, which scooped Disney's chirpier "Newsies: The Musical" for the award for best musical at the 2012 Tony Awards....

    Tags: Music, Audra McDonald, Entertainment, Spider-Man (fictional character), Music Theater

    9. Jan 13, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  9. 'Porgy and Bess' on Broadway: What did the critics think?

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    Few Broadway shows this season have experienced more controversy and critical hand-wringing before opening night than "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess," a new version of the classic opera that debuted last year at the American Repertory Theatre in...
    10. Mar 6, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Stephen Colbert sings 'Porgy and Bess' duet with Audra McDonald

    Culture Monster
    On Monday's "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert joined with singer/actress Audra McDonald to perform the song "Summertime" from "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," currently on Broadway....
    11. May 8, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  11. Final weekend for 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival

    The 106th Bethlehem Bach Festival continues through this weekend, highlighting two works not by Bach, but celebratory in their own right. Beethoven's joyous "Choral Fantasy" will be performed 4 p.m. Friday at Packer Memorial Church, followed by Morten...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music, Religion and Belief, High Schools, Music Theater

    12. May 2, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Surplus of song and dance in Chicago this weekend

    On Saturday night, the Lyric Opera of Chicago officially gets into the business of Broadway musicals.
    On Saturday night, the Lyric Opera of Chicago officially gets into the business of Broadway musicals. The Lyric's production of "Oklahoma," as directed by Gary Griffin, is certainly not the venerable opera company's first foray into the Broadway...

    Tags: Entertainment, Music, Broadway Theater, Music Theater, Chicago Loop

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