Chris JonesVerified account

@ChrisJonesTrib

Critic/columnist & . Live Friday . Director, National Critics Institute. Author, "Rise Up!" (Bloomsbury) PhD Ohio State.

Chicago, IL
amazon.com/Rise-Up-Broadw…
Joined March 2009
67 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @ChrisJonesTrib

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @ChrisJonesTrib

  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Jul 2020

    Loved the "Hamilton"? Why not explore how it happened? via

    1 reply 7 retweets 36 likes
    Undo
  2. Mar 5

    Chicago Shakespeare and Drury Lane Theatre announce live shows for fall

    3 retweets 11 likes
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    Mar 5

    If you were an exhausted actor straight from the dressing room, Petterino's bartender Ed Judge would know your drink and have it waiting. remembers him.

    2 retweets 5 likes
    Undo
  4. Mar 4

    Last call for Ed Judge, a dentist who chose tending bar at Petterino’s instead.

    2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    Undo
  5. Mar 4

    Ed Judge, a dentist who quit to tend bar at Petterino’s and be with theater people, is dead at 55

    3 replies 10 retweets 38 likes
    Undo
  6. Retweeted
    Mar 3

    When “Rent” opened on Broadway — gulp, 25 years ago in April — the likes of Cruise and Spielberg clamored for tickets. “Rent heads” from the East Village waited in line to snag $20 tickets. A quarter-century later, ‘Rent’ still resonates

    3 replies 4 retweets 20 likes
    Undo
  7. Mar 4

    Column: A restaurant room and inside of the Auditorium Theatre both capped at 50 people? Pritzker’s plan needs a new Phase 4.5

    2 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
    Undo
  8. Mar 3

    House Theatre of Chicago announces new artistic director

    3 retweets 13 likes
    Undo
  9. Mar 2

    Rock on.

    Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine. 
    1 retweet 11 likes
    Undo
  10. Retweeted
    Mar 2

    Are vaccine passports for audience members the quickest way back for the performing arts in Chicago? debates.

    3 retweets 3 likes
    Undo
  11. Mar 1

    I am glad Donald G. McNeil Jr. got his say. But what lives with me after 21,000 words is the massive cast here of PR people, public editors, lawyers, bosses of bosses, administrators, publishers, yada, yada. Amazing to most journos.

    1 reply 1 like
    Undo
  12. Mar 1

    Stratford Festival of Canada announces a modest outdoor summer season

    5 likes
    Undo
  13. Mar 1

    Review: In ‘Taking Up Serpents’ by Chicago Opera Theater, a young woman tries to escape a snake-loving father

    1 retweet 1 like
    Undo
  14. Mar 1

    "I watched the piece several times over the weekend, mostly trying to decide if Bueno was propelling or being propelled, which is a pandemic question of far greater application than dance."

    1 retweet 6 likes
    Undo
  15. Feb 28

    I say this is an ageist headline. Over 80s, some over 80s, struggle in my experience. But "Seniors can't use the Internet?" Come on, . Most can. Every day. It's the appointment websites that are the problem.

    1 retweet 22 likes
    Undo
  16. Feb 28

    Review: Joffrey Ballet’s virtual, bursting ‘Boléro’ brings us a rite of spring

    4 retweets 12 likes
    Undo
  17. Feb 26

    Fascinating story about how tech is ruining dining and killing independence.

    1 retweet 1 like
    Undo
  18. Feb 25

    too close to home

    war is hell
    1 like
    Undo
  19. Feb 25

    Very interesting. Head spinning with the implications, although further revenue grabs by away from news orgs like mine serve neither the journos nor their employers.

    It's going to be realllllly interesting to see how newsrooms will approach this when journalists seek an additional revenue opp like this
    Show this thread
    1 retweet 2 likes
    Undo
  20. Feb 25

    Glad to see the theater district eatery is reopening in a couple of weeks.

    1 reply 1 retweet 15 likes
    Undo
  21. Feb 25

    Column: Will people come back to live entertainment in Chicago? About 150,000 people already have.

    2 replies 7 retweets 15 likes
    Undo

@ChrisJonesTrib hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·