Thursday, September 14, 2017
Stage versions of Atwood's work are still rare, so Rivendell's riveting world premiere production of her novel "Alias Grace" is reason to celebrate.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:06PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Each of the towers is a self-contained ecosystem with heating & ventilating connectors, electrical connections, acoustical panels & sprinkler system.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:31PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
It is Hall's work on the opera stage that left its greatest mark in Chicago.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:58PMJames Still's fascinating fantasia, "The Heavens are Hung in Black," is now receiving an enthralling Shattered Globe Theatre production.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:37AMMonday, September 11, 2017
Discovery is the name of the game on Chicago stages. An astonishing pool of young talent is at work in this city right now (with many of the performers barely out of university theater progr…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:30AMSunday, September 10, 2017
The 2018 lineup features work by Chicago writers Ike Holter, Aline Lathrop and J. Joseph Cox, along with Kathleen Cahill and Sean Christopher Lewis.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:50PMFriday, September 8, 2017
In the end, the screechy-screaminess of it all, along with the crotch grabbing, simulated humping and dumb humor, have a numbing effect.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:13PMThursday, September 7, 2017
The Unit is a year-long residency in support of new work in collaboration with Chicago Dramatists.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:37PMUpgrades to the long-decrepit space include a new permanent stage with professional lighting and sound systems, and an enclosed lobby and box office.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:37AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
Based on the sensational Chicago premiere by Kokandy Productions, it is impossible to understand how the show failed to become a hit on Broadway.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:11PMSunday, September 3, 2017
Cameras will be rolling when the Chicago star of Porchlight's "End of the Rainbow" performs next month in St. Charles.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:51PMThursday, August 31, 2017
By now, the meteoric Broadway career of Chicago-bred actress Jessie Mueller is a well-known story, with a Tony Award win for her starring role in “Beautiful — The Carole King Musical…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:47PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
Jeanine Tesori is the Tony Award-winning composer responsible for such shows as “Caroline, or Change,” “Shrek the Musical,” “Violet,” “Thoroughly Mo…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 04:16PMThe Drury Lane Theatre in Oak Brook Terrace — which racked up an impressive 19 Joseph Jefferson Award nominations last week for its productions of the past season — has today ann…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:58PMThe play, directed by Damon Kiely, is now receiving a ferociously acted Chicago premiere by Strawdog Theatre.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 09:55AMSaturday, August 26, 2017
It is the latest addition to the more than 40 murals in the South Loop neighborhood, and kicks off this year’s public art exhibition, Street Level.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 01:14AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Make way for Martha Lavey Way. A section of North Halsted Street where Steppenwolf stands will be renamed in the artistic director's honor.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:34PMThursday, August 24, 2017
TimeLine Theatre's superb Chicago premiere of "The Audience," Peter Morgan's whip-smart portrait of a Queen Elizabeth, is not to be missed.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:30PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
The winners will be a announced at a gala awards ceremony Nov. 6 at the Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:00AMSunday, August 20, 2017
Mary Robin Roth's Rose is a tireless force of nature in this production that reinforces the ruthless and bitter aspects of the burlesque star's story.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:13PMThursday, August 17, 2017
The Oscar-winning short film has been expanded into a fervent, surprisingly playful, fully musicalized two-hour show.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 06:10PMMonday, August 14, 2017
The 1928 play by Sophie Treadwell was in many ways far ahead of its time in both style and substance,
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 11:01PMSunday, August 13, 2017
WEISS: As sick and twisted as the Black Button Eyes production is, its depiction of domestic horror is so imaginative that you cannot look away.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 05:14PMFriday, August 11, 2017
Neither Alexander Hamilton, nor any of such scientifically-minded Founding Fathers as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, had an app, although they certainly had “appetites.”…
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 08:59AMThursday, August 10, 2017
Gaines' re-imagined production, with Shakespeare's script featuring additional dialogue by Second City's Ron West, is set in 1919 Chicago.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:24PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
The festival will run Sept. 29 through Oct. 29 at various venues.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 02:43PMSunday, August 6, 2017
WEISS: Mercury Theater Chicago production is at once grand-scale yet intimate, aiming to capture the fashion, attitudes and anxieties of the era.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 03:02PMFriday, August 4, 2017
WEISS: The reality TV takeoff also delves into backstage drama, a variety of musical styles and even contemporary politics.
SOURCE: chicago.suntimes.com at 12:13PM 
