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Theater news, reviews, video and features from the @chicagotribune’s Theater Loop with @ChrisJonesTrib and @proudchismosa

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What is missing from the streets of Chicago this summer? People from other countries. And that's a problem, writes @ChrisJonesTrib https://t.co/FlA04ZI30q

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"Hummingbird," a new virtual-reality play designed for younger tech-savvy audiences, debuts at @thisisUIC with plans to move to the @GoodmanTheatre this fall. https://t.co/KtJhH9hmWW

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. @AuditoriumChgo announced its plan to reopen this fall along with the 2021-22 arts season.

Chicago’s @EnsembleEspanol will reopen the theater and kick off the season on Oct 16. Check out the full season below
https://t.co/Cjgrz0RMXF

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Chicago's @blackensemble and @ExploreNMMA have each received multimillion dollar grants from MacKenzie Scott. Check out the latest column from @ChrisJonesTrib
https://t.co/XuONGB8yvI

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Does @TheSecondCity have a new pipeline to @iamjohnoliver and @StephenAtHome's shows? Check out the latest from @ChrisJonesTrib
https://t.co/kKijFn7Jjp

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Magda Krance, longtime director of media relations for the @LyricOpera will retire at the end of June. She has been the Lyric's its supremely confident and thoroughly unflappable public-facing problem solver for some 30 years, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
https://t.co/xL6Zt4WcJ1

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This just in: @StephenAtHome joins @TheSecondCity's new board of directors, writes @ChrisJonesTrib
https://t.co/0hFYQoQdOV

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. @GoodmanTheatre announces 2021-22 season, with live performances beginning this summer. Get the details from @ChrisJonesTrib below
https://t.co/LQlt20vUWI

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The new @SteppenwolfThtr mural was designed in honor of the former artistic director Martha Lavey, who took over artistic direction in 1995 after the theater was built and who died in 2017 following a pair of debilitating strokes, writes @ChrisJonesTrib https://t.co/0BZetERhZi

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Chicago's @HarrisTheater announced its 2021-22 season of in-person performances, presented under the venue’s own banner and featuring many international artists. Find out more from @ChrisJonesTrib below https://t.co/e8zlxqpxMJ

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The Tony nominee Joaquina Kalukango ("Slave Play”) and the Canadian musical-theater star Chilina Kennedy (“Beautiful”) are to star in “Paradise Square,” the Garth Drabinsky musical trying out this fall in Chicago and then headed to Broadway.
https://t.co/HwdFhn9AuR

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. @SteppenwolfThtr will honor Annette Bening and Sherry Lansing with a free virtual event led by @carriecoon. Get all the details from @proudchismosa below
https://t.co/1bbqQ7aDaQ

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“Far Too Late,” the first song from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella,” has been released ahead of the album drop on July 9.
https://t.co/zZb4DcPpK1

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. @TheSecondCity said Friday that its e.t.c. space will reopen for shows beginning tonight, June 4. Get the details from @ChrisJonesTrib below
https://t.co/J9jmgxwHp8

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Jay Españo, an actor, singer and director with experience in both film and live performance, has been appointed artistic director of @PrideArtsChi the Chicago theater company formerly known as Pride Film and Plays. https://t.co/btUOK9mf45

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Following last fall’s Chicago Parks touring production, @GoodmanTheatre will return with a presentation of @sonesdemexico's “Zulema,” running Aug. 5-21 with a final performance on Sept. 2. Get the details from @proudchismosa below
https://t.co/Kb6IfvzT17

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Broadway will return on Aug. 4, with previews for Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over,” a production that premiered at Chicago’s @SteppenwolfThtr, writes @ChrisJonesTrib https://t.co/fjpB3l4FJu

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Naomi Osaka doesn't want to talk to the press? She'll win in the end because the nature of celebrity is changing with the younger generation, writes @ChrisJonesTrib https://t.co/rK0xrvuMXU

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“Swing Low” is the latest in what has been a very moving little suite of pandemic-era @joffreyballet films from its Chicago black box studio, all offering the chance to see the superb dancers in close-up.
@ChrisJonesTrib reviews:
https://t.co/iZlxBC0Nsv

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Lakeview’s @theaterwit will resume live performances this August, beginning with a remount of the 2015 production, "Mr. Burns, a post electric play.” Get all the details from @proudchismosa below.
https://t.co/v6syFeHqvd