STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Music Box Theater's THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
by Kelsey Denette - April 08, 2013 Music Box Musicals' first production, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins was a huge success, selling out almost every performance and hailed by every local critic as a 'not to be missed theatrical event'. As a follow up to Assassins, Music Box Musicals will present Houston's first professional regional pr...
BWW Reviews: MJR Theatricals | Music Box Musicals' AVENUE Q is Hysterical Fun
by David Clarke - November 03, 2013 In 2003, a certain green girl flew on Broadway for the first time. In the same year, a handful of plucky performers with some ostentatiously crass puppets opened a smaller show Off-Broadway. They transferred to Broadway months before the witches of Oz made their big splash and later surprised everyo...
Constantine Maroulis to Perform at Houston's Music Box Theater, 1/9-12
by BWW News Desk - November 23, 2013 STRAIGHT FROM NEW YORK: CONSTANTINE MAROULIS will perform at THE MUSIC BOX THEATER, JANUARY 9-12th, 2014 at 8:00pm....
Alan Bennett's PEOPLE Screens at Music Box, 4/23 & 28
by Kelsey Denette - April 18, 2013 The Music Box Theatre continues its partnership with the UK's National Theatre Live to exhibit live stage performances beamed to Chicago from the prestigious National Theatre in London. (U.S. showings are time-delayed because of time zone difference). The duo behind the Tony Award-winning The Histor...
Music Box to Screen RSC's RICHARD II with David Tennant, 12/7 & 18
by Tyler Peterson - December 03, 2013 Music Box Theatre expands its Stage-to-Screen programming this winter, importing even more captured live stage performances from the UK than ever before. Additional programming includes a new collaboration with the UK's Royal Shakespeare Company kicking off December 7 and 18 with Richard II, starrin...
Music Box Theatre to Present National Theatre Live's THIS HOUSE, 6/15 & 25
by Tyler Peterson - June 06, 2013 The Music Box Theatre continues its partnership with the UK's National Theatre Live - produced by Northwestern alum David Sabel - to exhibit live stage performances beamed to Chicago from the prestigious National Theatre in London. This month: a backbiting drama between Britain's political partiesin...
Post-Turkey BroadwayWorld Houston Awards Update 11/29 - Kristin Warren Has Big Lead!
by Christina Mancuso - November 29, 2013 Voting is now underway for Houston! We have a record number of votes in already, but if you haven't voted yet, click here to vote! If you have voted already, tell your friends....
Music Box Theatre to Screen Verdi Concert as Part of MusicEmotion Series, 6/23
by Tyler Peterson - June 18, 2013 The Music Box shows off the full power of its newly remodeled, state-of-the-art second screening room ("The Mini-Music Box") with MusicEmotion: Syphony in Cinema, a series of captured live musical matinees broadcast from Milan's renowned La Scala opera house for an Old World musical experience in hi...
ROCKY HORROR: HALLOWEEN EDITION Set for the Music Box Theatre, Now thru 10/31
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2013 A seductive Halloween tradition, Music Box Theatre and Midnight Madness entice Rocky Horror fans and virgins alike to deck out in boas, fishnets and merry widows and give themselves over to absolute pleasure as they screen The Rocky Horror Picture Show over three nights. This annual sell-out event f...
Jeff Garlin Stars in DEALIN' WITH IDIOTS at Music Box Theatre, Opening Tonight
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2013 Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Jeff Garlin takes the director's chair with his youth baseball comedy Dealin' With Idiots from IFC Films, opening in Chicago tonight, July 12 at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue....
BWW Reviews: Mary Testa's ON BROADWAY ...AND A LITTLE OFF! is an Exquisite Experience
by David Clarke - August 03, 2013 Since we're living in Houston, I promise I won't be upset with you if you tell me you don't know who Mary Testa is. What you first need to understand is that the theatrical gods divinely intervened in her creation. Imagine if Bette Midler and Patti LuPone had a child and named her Mary. Got it? Good...
STRAIGHT SHOOTING, THE GENERAL and More Set for Music Box's Silent Cinema Series, Fall 2013
by Movies News Desk - September 14, 2013 This fall, Music Box Theatre's monthly Second Saturday Silent Cinema series screens a trio of excellent matinees. John Ford's remarkable first picture Straight Shooting - a Western, naturally - bows today, September 14, followed by Buster Keaton's must-see masterpiece The General on October 12 and t...
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of The Theatre Group at SBCC's BUS STOP, Beg. Tonight
by BWW News Desk - October 16, 2013 The Theatre Group at SBCC continues the 2013/2014 season with William Inge's classic play, BUS STOP, directed by R. Michael Gros, tonight, October 16-November 2, 2013 in the Garvin Theatre. Meet the cast in the photos below!...
Music Box Theatre to Present LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, 8/8-31
by Tyler Peterson - July 18, 2013 After receiving critical acclaim and box office sellouts earlier this season for Stephen Sondheim's Assassins and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Music Box Musicals will round out its inaugural season with an up-close-and-personal presentation of the cult classic Little Shop of Horrors a...
Music Box Theatre Screens National Theatre Live's THIS HOUSE Tonight
by BWW News Desk - June 25, 2013 The Music Box Theatre continues its partnership with the UK's National Theatre Live - produced by Northwestern alum David Sabel - to exhibit live stage performances beamed to Chicago from the prestigious National Theatre in London. This month: a backbiting drama between Britain's political partiesin...
Music Box Theatre's COMPUTER CHESS Hosts Post-Show Talks This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - September 27, 2013 Music Box Theatre welcomes the filmmakers and local stars of the new '80s-set comedy Computer Chess for the film's opening weekend in Chicago. Writer-director Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha), local stars Gordon Kindlmann and Anne Dodge, Chicago-born producer Alex Lipschultz and pioneering chess progra...
Music Box Theatre's COMPUTER CHESS to Host Post-Show Talks, 9/27-28
by BWW News Desk - September 19, 2013 Music Box Theatre welcomes the filmmakers and local stars of the new '80s-set comedy Computer Chess for the film's opening weekend in Chicago. Writer-director Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha), local stars Gordon Kindlmann and Anne Dodge, Chicago-born producer Alex Lipschultz and pioneering chess progra...
BSO Announces 2013-14 Music Box Series For Kids 6 Months to 3 Years
by BWW News Desk - August 29, 2013 The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces the 2013-2014 season programming for the popular Music Box Series, a unique music program for young children ages 6 months to three years old and their families. The series debuted at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall last season and was wildly popul...
Constantine Maroulis to Perform at Houston's Music Box Theater, 1/9-12
by BWW News Desk - November 23, 2013 STRAIGHT FROM NEW YORK: CONSTANTINE MAROULIS will perform at THE MUSIC BOX THEATER, JANUARY 9-12th, 2014 at 8:00pm....
STRAIGHT SHOOTING, THE GENERAL and More Set for Music Box's Silent Cinema Series, Fall 2013
by Movies News Desk - October 12, 2013 This fall, Music Box Theatre's monthly Second Saturday Silent Cinema series screens a trio of excellent matinees. John Ford's remarkable first picture Straight Shooting - a Western, naturally - bows September 14, followed by Buster Keaton's must-see masterpiece The General today, October 12 and the ...
Bobby McFerrin Conducts La Scala Philharmonic in MusicEmotion Matinee, 8/11
by Ben Peltz - July 16, 2013 Ten-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist and conductor Bobby McFerrin conducts La Scala's philharmonic orchestra in an eclecticMusicEmotion concert to be shown Sunday, August 11, 11:30 a.m. at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue. Tickets are $10 in advance at www.musicboxtheatre.com/collection...
Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of The Theatre Group at SBCC's BUS STOP
by BWW News Desk - September 25, 2013 The Theatre Group at SBCC continues the 2013/2014 season with William Inge's classic play, BUS STOP, directed by R. Michael Gros, October 16-November 2, 2013 in the Garvin Theatre. Meet the cast in the photos below!...
Photo Flash: Remembering Christopher Evan Welch
by Walter McBride - December 04, 2013 As BroadwayWorld previously reported, stage and screen actorChristopher Evan Welch passed away on December 2, 2013 in Los Angeles. He was 48. Below, we tribute the actor with photos from some of his recent stage appearances....
Music Box Theatre to Present Lost Valentino/Gloria Swanson Film BEYOND THE ROCKS, 6/8
by Tyler Peterson - May 31, 2013 Music Box Theatre presents a long lost film from the Hollywood Golden Age when its monthly Silent Cinema Series revives the 1922 Gloria Swanson/Rudolph Valentino treasure Beyond the Rocks. Chicagoans will have the rare opportunity to see this silent romance on the big screen with live musical accom...
Tickets Now Available for MUSIC BOX CHRISTMAS SHOW
by Nicole Rosky - November 01, 2013 On Christmas Eve 1983, the operator of a vintage movie palace on Southport Avenue decided to show a couple of old holiday movies and sing a few Christmas carols during intermission. On that snowy Chicago evening, no one could have predicted that 30 years later the Music Box Christmas Show would deve... |
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