Think of "Thieves Like Us," now in an exceptionally stylish world premiere stage production by the House Theatre of Chicago, as a more subtle version of "Bon...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMNote to David Mamet: Get yourself on a plane "home" to Chicago to catch two of your shorter, most fiercely provocative plays -- "Speed-the-Plow" (1988) and "...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe battle lines are set from the start in the thunderously physical, youthfully energetic production of "Romeo and Juliet" devised for Chicago Shakespeare T...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMShe may not be an altogether familiar name in Chicago, but for anyone who follows the Broadway scene, Sutton Foster is clearly the go-to gal. The terrific da...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMEnter the lobby of the Broadway Playhouse, a 549-seat venue at 175 E. Chestnut that opened in 2005 under the name Drury Lane Water Tower Place Theatre, and you can only begin to wonder what …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMSutton Foster doesn't quite suggest the usual Broadway diva. But watch her at work on the newly named Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, and you not only understand why she was selecte…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMDirector Mary Zimmerman smiles as she recalls the retreat she conducted with her creative team for “Candide,” the Leonard Bernstein musical she has adapted a...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMHedy Weiss: Sheer, unadulterated bliss. There is no other way to describe the enchanting Writers' Theatre revival of "She Loves Me" -- that priceless little jewel-box of a musical comedy that so win...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PM"Night and Day," Tom Stoppard's intellectually bristling and surprisingly passionate play about journalism, post-colonial Africa, labor unions and sexual attraction...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThough the basic vocabulary of dance is universal, rooted in ballet,modern, jazz and popular dance, each choreographer's tone, accent,inflection, volume and diction...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMWhen I caught up with writer-producer Toby Gough recently, he was about to jump into a swimming pool in Singapore, where he was producing a big Brazilian-themed spe...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMNew revelations come with each successive viewing of Julie Taymor's gloriously culture-blending 1997 musical "The Lion King." The seamless magic of its multifaceted, cross-pollinating artist…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMNote to all young women seeking a permanent relationship with a man willing to commit: Steer clear of Bobby, that ever-elusive single guy who is about to celebrate ...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMA sassy little "newsboy" zooms onstage on a scooter, acknowledges the crowd with a friendly "How y'all doin'?" and then proceeds to let everyone know how things are...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe Mercury Theater, the attractive little 315-seat house at 3745 N. Southport that has been vacant for many months — but formerly served as home to such intimate commercial production…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMIn a program note about her new theater piece, "Lullaby," writerDiane Herrera explains that she was expecting a baby at the same timeher play was in gestation. Full...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMMichael Halberstam, artistic director of Glencoe's acclaimed Writers' Theatre -- who has just staged a beguiling revival of the musical "She Loves Me," and who is heading to the Lincoln Cent…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PM“Scorched,” now in a tremendously bold and ambitious production by the Silk Road Theatre Project, is Wajdi Mouawad's searing meditation on the insanity of the civil war that rage…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMStage 773 is about toundergo a $1 million upgrade that will enhance both its facade andinterior spaces.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMTalk about extended verbal foreplay. It took almost 50 years for playwright Edward Albee's career-making one-act, "The Zoo Story," to acquire its intriguing ...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has found its new artistic director. Heis Timothy Douglas, a 49-year-old stage director, actor and educatorwith extensive credits in both the classics and con…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMChicago's Latin-oriented Luna Negra Dance Theater made a bold and inspired move last year when it appointed Gustavo Ramirez Sansano as artistic director and ...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThe verdict is unequivocal: In "All Stars," its magnificent fall program at the Auditorium Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet (expertly accompanied by the Chicago Sinfonietta) is dancing as it has …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMAlthough playwrights from Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams to Tracy Letts have created a booming industry based on the dynamics of dysfunctional America...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMIn many ways, Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is the most eloquent story ever written about American justice (and injustice). But it is about...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMThere is something about the plays of Tennessee Williams -- and the sensation hits at gale force with exposure to any of his great works -- that leaves audiences wh...
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMAt the heart of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters," now in an uneven production at the Piven Theatre Workshop, is a group of sophisticated, "overeducated," once-prosperous siblings -- the three s…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMAt the heart of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters," now in an uneven production at the Piven Theatre Workshop, is a group of sophisticated, "overeducated," once-prosperous siblings -- the three s…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMIn recent months, as he has been working on his new production ofChekhov's “The Seagull” at the Goodman Theatre, director Robert Falls has been thinking about how his relationshi…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PMIn recent decades, dancers have melded their own particular technicaland artistic demands with the daring and endurance levels ofsuper-powered athletes. Nowhere is that more apparent than in…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 05:58PM'The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" was named top production of a play as well as best newwork of the 2009-10 Chicago theater season at Monday night's 42nd annua...
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