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Black Ensemble Theater salutes Sammy Davis Jr. with jazzy standards, loads of fancy foot work

Whether he was performing in vaudeville or Las Vegas, making the rounds with the Rat Pack or Hollywood’s leading ladies from the silver screen, Sammy Davis Jr. was a true [More…]

Another “Beautiful” take on Carole King’s immortal songbook, courageous story

Everyone knows the songs of Carole King, either those she recorded personally or ones cut by the lofty likes of Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, The Drifters, The Monkees, The [More…]

Loyalty, love, tunes and tap dancing amongst the many blessings in Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”

A holiday season never goes by without endless movie screenings of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas,” which first hit the silver screen in 1954 starring Bing Crosby, [More…]

No better way to beat the winter blues than with Jimmy Buffett’s “Escape To Margaritaville”

When Jimmy Buffett stopped by opening night of the pre-Broadway musical “Escape To Margaritaville” in the heart of a Chicago November, he traded his flip-flops for tennis [More…]

“Beverly Hills 90210: The Musical” lovingly skewers the teen soap opera from TV’s most famous zip code

From the creators of “Full House: The Musical,” “Bayside! The Musical,” “Katdashians” and “Show Girls: The Musical” comes “Beverly Hills 90210: The [More…]

Berlin’s Kit Kat Klub comes to Theatre At The Center in spunky yet serious “Cabaret”

The last time “Cabaret” toured though Chicago, the musical about a Berlin nightclub and the many quirky characters that pass through its transient tables just prior to [More…]

NightBlue’s Chicago debut of “Tarzan” sets a Disney adventure to the sounds of Phil Collins

Outside of its original run on Broadway ten years ago, the musical version of Disney’s “Tarzan” only surfaced with a few regional American productions and a handful of [More…]

Broadway at Lyric’s “My Fair Lady” is elegant, magnificent

For the fifth installment of the Broadway at Lyric series, the Lyric Opera of Chicago dipped back to Lerner and Loewe’s classic “My Fair Lady,” which swept the Tony [More…]

“A Whole New World” for “Aladdin” in spectacular stage adaptation

There’s never been a shortage of spectacle when Disney takes to Broadway, but the company that redefined the rules with “The Lion King,” “Beauty And The Beast” and [More…]

“9 To 5” works hard for workplace equality, spreads lots of laughs at Woodstock Opera House

Whether it was the movie starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda or the hit title song, “9 To 5” was a fixture of the 1980s that never really went away. When it [More…]