Do you need a breath of spring? The snow’s still piled up and we’ve weeks of mudtime ahead before things start turning green, but you can get a preview of the coming season starting tomorrow during the Chicago Flower & Garden Show on Navy Pier through Sunday, March 14.
The 2010 show’s theme, “Cultivating Great [...]
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Journey with Montreal’s Theatre Sans Fil to J.R.R. Tolkein’s Middle Earth, as the company performs “The Hobbit,” the wonderful adventure of Bilbo Baggins on his epic journey to a new level of wisdom, staged as a marvelous adaptation with 48 giant puppets bringing to life Bilbo, Gandalf, Gollum, a 25-foot dragon and others. “Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil, if she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will….” “Does Fox News have a theater critic?” I wondered, after viewing Second City Theatricals’ “Rush Limbaugh! The Musical.” Probably not. Live theater may be deemed too effete for their NASCAR- and gun sports-loving audiences. The New Orleans Saints take on the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday, Feb. 7. You could stay home and watch it on your dinky TV, but then you’d have to fix your own food and drinks. Here are some great alternatives around Chicago and the suburbs. Murphy’s Bleachers Super Bowl Pig Roast, [...] City Lit Theater in Edgewater cooks up a gritty, physical version of “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s spookiest tragedy, boiling with energy and full of sound and fury. Every time I attend a show at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, I wonder, all over again, who had the bright idea of putting a theater on Navy Pier? To be sure, the theater complex has gorgeous views of Lake Michigan, but who cares about the views outside a theater? It’s slow and awkward to get onto [...] Don’t stay home hibernating! Connect with the people you didn’t see over the holidays. “What better way to do that than a free show that includes music and laughter and two fat guys eating nasty food!” says Mary Czerwinski, coordinator of the “n.u.f.a.n. nights” series at the Holiday Club in Uptown. The n.u.f.a.n. ensemble has [...] In the past year, violent incidents at Chicago schools have risen at an alarming rate. To take a stand against school violence, more than 20 students from Rogers Park’s Sullivan High School have worked with artists from Edgewater’s Raven Theatre to present a one-night show, “A Bird of Prey,” featuring scenes the teens [...] Don’t go to ‘The Addams Family’ musical expecting ‘Christmas with The Addams Family.’ Creative team: Uh, well, we’re basing it on the original Chas. Addams cartoons, not the TV show. |
 
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