Coming soon to a stage near you: Broadway tours, new tuners, classics re-imagined. broadwaychicago GoodmanTheatre MarriottTheatre ParamountAurora
While this time of year typically entices Chicago-area residents outside, theatergoers may decide to stay indoors considering the promising productions coming to local stages over the next few months.
Broadway veteran Norm Lewis plays a Black officer investigating the murder of a Black soldier at a Louisiana army base in 1944 in the national tour of Roundabout Theatre's Tony Award-winning revival of"A Soldier's Play," an adaptation of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of racism in the U.S. military.
The musical inspired by Alanis Morissette's chart-topping 1995 album became a 2019 jukebox tuner that earned screenwriter Diablo Cody a Tony Award for best book of a musical. Centered on a troubled Connecticut family consisting of parents who've grown apart, a biological son headed for Harvard and a Black, 16-year-old adopted daughter, the domestic musical touches on racism, sexuality and addiction.
Mark Twain's 1885 novel inspired this infrequently revived 1985 musical by country singer/songwriter Roger Miller about young Huck and his adventures with his friend Jim, an enslaved man who Huck helps escape to the north. Reviving"Ragtime," a striking, musically rich portrait of America at the turn of the last century adapted from E.L. Doctorow's novel, poses several challenges for a theater. Among them is a large, diverse cast and singers and musicians capable of performing Stephen Flaherty's magnificent, Tony Award-winning score.
Teatro Vista premieres this musical about a man who, while dreaming, meets the woman of his dreams. Created by ensemble member Marvin Quijada and co-directed by Sandra Marquez and Alice da Cunha, the show incorporates music, clowning and silent film techniques. First generation Asian American newlyweds pursue the American dream across the nation's highways and byways in Lookingglass Theatre's world premiere of this musical by artistic associate Matthew C. Yee and director/co-composer Amanda Dehnert.
Goodman, which rarely produces musicals, re-imagines Pete Townshend's rock opera to commemorate the show's 30th anniversary. Tony Award-winning director and former artistic director of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Des McAnuff, who helmed the 1993 premiere, re-imagines the show about a traumatized teen turned pinball champion.
E. Faye Butler directs Northlight's revival of this play with music about pioneering gospel singer/guitarist Rosetta Tharpe, who was credited as the"original soul sister" and"godmother of rock 'n' roll" for her use of the electric guitar and for the influence she had on subsequent generations of gospel, jazz and rock performers. Bethany Thomas plays Rosetta, whose relationship with protégé Marie Wright is chronicled in this two-hander by George Brant.
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