{"id":8252,"date":"2015-07-20T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2015-07-20T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:00:56","slug":"musical-to-celebrate-eberts-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/20\/musical-to-celebrate-eberts-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical to celebrate Eberts\u2019 love story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8253\" style=\"width: 993px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/20\/musical-to-celebrate-eberts-love-story\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8253\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8253\" alt=\"Roger and Chaz Ebert\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Roger-and-Chaz.jpg\" width=\"983\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Roger-and-Chaz.jpg 983w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Roger-and-Chaz-300x178.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Roger-and-Chaz-150x89.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Roger-and-Chaz-400x237.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Roger-and-Chaz-800x475.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Roger-and-Chaz-200x118.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Roger and Chaz Ebert<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The epic love story of Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert and his devoted wife Chaz is coming to a Chicago stage this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackensembletheater.org\" target=\"_blank\"> Black Ensemble Theater<\/a> announced Monday the world premiere of \u201cThe Black White Love Play (The Story of Chaz and Roger Ebert)\" will be September 19 to November 1.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by Jackie Taylor, founder and CEO of the Uptown neighborhood theater, the play was written in collaboration with Chaz Ebert and partially funded by a bequest from the trust of Roger Ebert, the announcement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Black White Love Play\u2019 is the story of Chaz and Roger Ebert, detailing their life together through their courtship, marriage and Roger\u2019s Ebert untimely death in 2013,\u201d according to the statement. \u201cThe production features outstanding music, exhilarating dance and a 10-piece orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the project was first<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/12\/04\/black-ensemble-theater-to-stage-roger-ebert-musical\/\" target=\"_blank\"> announced<\/a> last December the original title was \u201cThe Black White Play (Honoring the Memory of Roger Ebert through Music).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chaz Ebert, who sustains her late husband\u2019s legacy as publisher of Ebert Digital and president of Ebert Productions, is a longtime supporter of the non-profit Black Ensemble Theater, 4450 North Clark Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The epic love story of Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert and his devoted wife Chaz is coming to a Chicago stage this fall. The Black Ensemble Theater announced Monday the world premiere of \u201cThe Black White Love Play (The Story of Chaz and Roger Ebert)\" will be September 19 to November 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8255,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions\/8255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}