Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD National Tour Premiere
by Rachel Weinberg - Sep 27, 2024
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD is three hours of nostalgia-fueled, utterly captivating theater...with heaps of stage magic. The Chicago engagement marks the national tour debut of the eighth installment in J.K. Rowling’s HARRY POTTER series.
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG in Chicago Is Extending By Popular Demand
by Stephi Wild - Jan 7, 2022
The producers of the international hit comedy THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG are pleased to announce the Chicago production, featuring a cast of local Chicago actors, will extend its limited engagement by nine weeks through April 3, 2022 at Broadway In Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St.) to a total run of 16 weeks.
BWW Review: So Wrong, It's Right- THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Broadway Playhouse
by Kathleen Anwar - Dec 27, 2021
Book your next Botox session in advance because The Play that Goes Wrong is guaranteed to produce permanent laugh lines in all audience members. This incredible farce at Chicago's Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place is the perfect way to let go and truly escape both the drama and banality of everyday life. Though the humor largely centers around slapstick high jinks, this isn't your father's slip-on-a-banana-peel gag reel. Instead, this show combines perfectly timed prop and set mishaps with a wildly clumsy cast creating the perfect comedic storm.
Quarantunes Zoom Concert Raises $1.2 Million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 21, 2020
Quarantunes, a series of invite-only, exclusive Zoom concerts hosted by WME Partner Richard Weitz and his daughter Demi Weitz, raised a record-shattering $1,238,273 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS during its most recent edition on October 18, 2020. This is the first time the stream passed the $1 million fundraising mark in one evening.