THE NUTCRACKER Plays Movie Theaters Nationwide Today
by Contests Broadway - December 03, 2012 The Nutcracker ballet returns to NCM Fathom Events this holiday season in collaboration with More2Screen and EuroArts Music. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker will be broadcast to movie theatres nationwide today, December 3 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (local time). And for the first time ever will be show...
Camp Midnight Presents MOMMIE DEAREST on Mother's Day
by Kelsey Denette - April 25, 2013 For a different kind of Mother's Day, Camp Midnight hosts a special afternoon presentation of the camp classic Mommie Dearest, the ultimate mother-daughter movie. Faye Dunaway chews the scenery and inks her eyebrows in this larger-than-life depiction of Joan Crawford, the Oscar-winning, wire hanger-...
Music Box Films Secures Rights to 100 BLOODY ACRES
by Tyler Peterson - January 02, 2013 According to Variety, Music Box Films has picked up the rights to the Cairnes brothers upcoming flick 100 BLOODY ACRES. The film marks the first distribution for Music Box's new all-platform inclusive Doppleganger Releasing label....
Chicago's Music Box Theatre to Present 'The Hitchcock 9' Restored Silent Films, 8/9-13
by Kristin Salaky - August 01, 2013 Music Box Theatre announces a program of Alfred Hitchcock's silent films, jointly presented by the British Film Institute, Park Circus/ITV and Rialto Pictures. The Hitchcock 9, comprising all of Alfred Hitchcock's surviving silent films from the 1920s, will be shown August 9-13 at Chicago's Music Bo...
Sound Opinions at the Movies Series Continues With WATTSTAX Tonight
by BWW News Desk - May 01, 2013 The popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series continues with a screening of Wattstax, the 1973 Mel Stuart documentary chronicling the legendary Stax Records-sponsored Watts Summer Music Festival, at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue, tonight, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Chicago Public Media'...
Video Trailer: ANY DAY NOW, Starring Alan Cumming
by Movies News Desk - November 13, 2012 Inspired by a true story and touching on legal and social issues that are more relevant now than ever, ANY DAY NOW tells a story of love, acceptance, and creating your own family. Starring Alan Cumming, directed by Travis Fine and written by Fine and George Arthur Bloom, ANY DAY NOW is set to premie...
BWW Reviews: MJR Theatricals | Music Box Musicals' LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is Spirited and Fun
by David Clarke - August 09, 2013 As the dog days of summer needlessly drag on in Houston, enveloping the city in oppressive heat, Michael J. Ross' MJR Theatricals | Music Box Musicals is presenting LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Roger Corman's notorious 1960 low-budget horror-themed comedy The Little Shop of Horrors serves as the basis fo...
Chicago's Music Box Theatre Announces Sing-A-Long Screening of THE SOUND OF MUSIC and WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
by Kelsey Denette - March 21, 2013 Chicago's Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, ushers in spring with festive Easter weekend matinees of the ever-popular Sing-A-Long Sound of Music and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory....
Bobby McFerrin Conducts La Scala Philharmonic in MusicEmotion Matinee Today
by BWW News Desk - August 11, 2013 Ten-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist and conductor Bobby McFerrin conducts La Scala's philharmonic orchestra in an eclectic MusicEmotion concert today, August 11, 11:30 a.m. at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue. Tickets are $10 in advance at www.musicboxtheatre.com/collections/musicemoti...
Chicago's Music Box Theatre Presents 'The Hitchcock 9' Restored Silent Films, Now thru 8/13
by Movies News Desk - August 09, 2013 Music Box Theatre announces a program of Alfred Hitchcock's silent films, jointly presented by the British Film Institute, Park Circus/ITV and Rialto Pictures. The Hitchcock 9, comprising all of Alfred Hitchcock's surviving silent films from the 1920s, will be shown today, August 9-13 at Chicago's M...
The Music Box Theatre and Camp Midnight Present NEW YEAR'S ON THE S.S. POSEIDON, 12/31
by Sierra Fox - November 26, 2012 In the iconic 1972 action-disaster epic The Poseidon Adventure, a luxury ocean liner overturns at midnight on New Year's Eve. This December 31, 2012, on the 40th anniversary of The Poseidon Adventure, Camp Midnight and the Music Box Theatre resuscitate New Year's Eve on the S.S. Poseidon, a campy ce...
Fashion Photo of the Day 12/19/12 - Katie Holmes
by Jennifer Diamond - December 19, 2012 The post TomKat Katie Holmes is a return to the early, relaxed 'girl next door' look America first fell in love with. Gone are her high couture ensembles and coiffed hair. What remains is a more confident, relaxed and natural beauty....
THE NUTCRACKER Plays Movie Theaters Nationwide Today
by Contests Broadway - December 03, 2012 The Nutcracker ballet returns to NCM Fathom Events this holiday season in collaboration with More2Screen and EuroArts Music. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker will be broadcast to movie theatres nationwide today, December 3 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (local time). And for the first time ever will be show...
PIPPIN's Patina Miller Wins Best Lead Actress, Musical
by Caryn Robbins - June 09, 2013 Patina Miller has won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her performance of 'The Leading Player' in Diane Paulus' newest production of PIPPIN, now playing at the Music Box Theater....
Sound Opinions at the Movies Series Continues With WATTSTAX, 5/1
by Emily Stubbs - March 05, 2013 The popular Sound Opinions at the Movies series continues with a screening of Wattstax, the 1973 Mel Stuart documentary chronicling the legendary Stax Records-sponsored Watts Summer Music Festival, at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue, Wednesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Chicago Public Medi...
STAGE TUBE: Sneak Peek at Patina Miller and More in PIPPIN
by Stage Tube - February 25, 2013 Producers Barry & Fran Weissler and Howard & Janet Kagan present Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's Pippin, directed by Diane Paulus. Pippin will begin preview performances on Broadway Saturday, March 23, 2013 and officially open Thursday, April 25, 2013 at the Music Box Theatre. Tickets are ava...
Music Box Theatre Presents LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Now thru 8/31
by BWW News Desk - August 08, 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...
Music Box Theatre Hosts GREASE Sing-a-Long Today
by BWW News Desk - July 04, 2013 Chicago's Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport) screens a pair of classic films on Independence Day. The patriotic George M. Cohan musical biopic YANKEE DOODLE DANDY will be shown at 2 p.m. The original high school musical, GREASE, starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, returns in its sing-a...
Largest Phonograph and Music Box Show Returns to Donley's Wild West Town, 6/8 & 9
by Kelsey Denette - May 03, 2013 With hundreds of antique phonographs, high quality music boxes, and vintage radios, thousands of rare records from the 1890's to the 1950's and more, the 38th Annual Phonograph and Music Box Show at Donley's Wild West Town will once again bring international acclaim to the village of Union, Illinois...
Music Box Theatre to Broadcast THE AUDIENCE Starring Helen Mirren, 6/30 & 7/3
by Tyler Peterson - June 18, 2013 The Music Box continues its partnership with the UK's National Theatre Live to exhibit captured live stage performances beamed to Chicago from the prestigious National Theatre in London. The Audience, starring Mirren and directed by Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The...
Music Box Theatre Presents National Theatre Live's TIMON OF ATHENS, 11/28
by Kelsey Denette - November 09, 2012 Chicago's Music Box Theatre continues its collaboration with the UK's National Theatre Live, the best of British theatre broadcast live to cinemas worldwide. Up next: the great Simon Russell Beale takes the title role in Timon of Athens, based on Shakespeare's strange fable of consumption, debt and ...
Music Box Theatre & Sound Opinions to Present 3rd Annual Summer Music Film Festival, 6/28-7/2
by Tyler Peterson - June 10, 2013 Sound Opinions co-presents the 3rd annual Music Box Theatre Summer Music Film Festival June 28-July 2 at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Avenue. Single tickets are $8-$15 and festival passes are $70 at www.summermusicfilmfestival.com....
The Music Box Theatre and Camp Midnight Present NEW YEAR'S ON THE S.S. POSEIDON, 12/31
by Sierra Fox - November 26, 2012 In the iconic 1972 action-disaster epic The Poseidon Adventure, a luxury ocean liner overturns at midnight on New Year's Eve. This December 31, 2012, on the 40th anniversary of The Poseidon Adventure, Camp Midnight and the Music Box Theatre resuscitate New Year's Eve on the S.S. Poseidon, a campy ce...
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... |