CBS News to Honor Charles Osgood With Special Edition of CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING
by Michael Major - Jan 24, 2024
Osgood, who anchored the broadcast for 22 years before retiring in 2016, died Tuesday, Jan. 23. Jane Pauley anchors the 90-minute special, which will feature members of the CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING team reporting on Osgood’s life, what made him beloved to co-workers and viewers, his devotion to the craft of storytelling, his love of music and more.
Chicago Children's Theatre Reveals 2023-24 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 25, 2023
Chicago Children’s Theatre, Chicago’s largest professional theater devoted to children and young families, announced its 19th season today, launching in the fall with a world premiere play about Ben Franklin, filled with history and science, followed by two CCT “forever family favorites.”
Review: THE WHISTLEBLOWER at Theater Wit
by Rachel Weinberg - May 18, 2023
It’s ironic that THE WHISTLEBLOWER begins with a meta pitch of the play’s concept. While the idea is witty, Moses’s concept loses steam in this full-length play. Though it’s billed as a comedy, THE WHISTLEBLOWER is mildly amusing rather than uproariously funny.
Photos: First Look at THE BEATRIX POTTER TEA PARTY at Chicago Children's Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 1, 2021
The Beatrix Potter Holiday Tea Party, a seasonal rite of passage for countless Chicago toddlers and their parents, returns to Chicago Children’s Theatre November 20-December 24, marking the return of live performances at Chicago’s largest professional theater devoted to children and families.
Photos: MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY at Theatre Wit
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 30, 2021
Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, currently enjoying a successful run at Chicago’s Theater Wit, will close on November 14, making way for Wit’s new holiday offering, Who’s Holiday!, which starts previews on November 26.
BWW REVIEW: MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY at Theater Wit
by Rachel Weinberg - Sep 9, 2021
It’s not just fitting that MR. BURNS is a play about a post-apocalyptic world, but also one that deeply underscores why art is so important to humanity. Indeed, this production demonstrates that art is what makes us human and empowers us to survive. After such a long time without live theater here in Chicago, I can think of few better ideas to ponder than that.
BWW Review: TEENAGE DICK at Theater Wit
by Emily McClanathan - Mar 21, 2020
What does live theater look like during a pandemic? As Americans adjust to the new realities of social distancing and sheltering in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, many theaters across the nation and the world are dark. Though live performances have been canceled, Theater Wit offers an innovative remote viewing alternative for its Chicago premiere of Mike Lew's TEENAGE DICK, directed by Brian Balcom.
Photo Flash: First Look At WAITING FOR GODOT At Victory Gardens
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 21, 2019
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's seminal work for the stage, has finally arrived in Chicago in a new production staged by veteran director Dennis Začek, featuring legendary Chicago actors Larry Neumann Jr. as Vladimir, Steve Pickering* as Pozzo and Michael Saad as Estragon, with Nima Rakhshanifar as Lucky and Cooper Hoyt as boy.
Dennis Zacek to Direct WAITING FOR GODOT at Victory Gardens
by Julie Musbach - Aug 21, 2019
Add to your fall Chicago theater must-see list Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's seminal work for the stage, directed by veteran Chicago director Dennis Zacek, featuring top Chicago actors Joe Foust as Vladimir, Michael Saad as Estragon, Larry Russo as Pozzo and Nima Rakhshanifar as Lucky.
Newbery-Winner Christopher Paul Curtis To Do Book Signings At Chicago Children's Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 4, 2019
Internationally acclaimed children's author Christopher Paul Curtis will pay a return visit to Chicago Children's Theatre, 100 S. Racine Ave. in Chicago's West Loop, on Saturday and Sunday, April 13 and 14, for public book signings and to celebrate CCT's world premiere adaptation of his Newbery Medal-winning book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963.
BWW Review: ADMISSIONS at Theater Wit
by Rachel Weinberg - Apr 3, 2019
Now in its Chicago debut at Theater Wit under the direction of Artistic Director Jeremy Wechsler, Joshua Harmon's ADMISSIONS is entirely prescient. The play takes a critical look at both prep school and college admissions, and the lengths to which people will go to have their children admitted. The play also asks keen, complicated questions about white privilege, racism, and how we should now be deciding who gets a seat at the table.
CBS SUNDAY MORNING Celebrates 40th Birthday with Special Edition
by Kaitlin Milligan - Jan 25, 2019
CBS SUNDAY MORNING will mark its 40th birthday with a special edition highlighting the people, the places, and the many milestones from the first four decades to be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 27 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.
Chrissy Teigen Opens Up on SUNDAY'S BEST: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF CBS SUNDAY MORNING
by Kaitlin Milligan - Sep 13, 2018
Supermodel Chrissy Teigen opens up about battling postpartum depression, life with award-winning singer John Legend, her relationship with her millions of social media followers and more in an interview with Rita Braver for SUNDAY'S BEST: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF CBS SUNDAY MORNING, to be broadcast Friday, Sept. 14 (8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.