“Brokeback Mountain” Brings Queer Intimacy to a Grand Wyoming Setting
Chicago Shakespeare Theater stages the U.S. premiere of Ashley Robinson’s adaptation, presenting Annie Proulx’s love story as a play with music.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater stages the U.S. premiere of Ashley Robinson’s adaptation, presenting Annie Proulx’s love story as a play with music.
Tonal inconsistencies in Promethean Theatre Ensemble’s production of Jean Anouilh’s adaptation weaken the play’s powerful and relevant message.
This twentieth-century version of a deal-with-the-devil knocks it out of the park.
Possokhov’s ballet brings nuanced emotions to the stage in a fully realized marriage of dance, music and visual design.
Jackalope Theatre presents Terry Guest’s twisted tale of artistic ambition and vengeance set during the Pop Art era.
Ego Death Theatre Collective’s sure-handed production of “A Dog’s House” shows the impact of a pet’s violent death on the owners’ relationships.
Inventive theater keeps coming as the summer begins.
Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre builds a stunning production around an incomplete story.
The annual festival brings many performance types under its umbrella.
June's dance highlights
In “The Targeted,” a new play by Hanna Kime, conspiracy theorists gather at a rustic retreat for a meeting of the “Solidarity and Truth Summit.”
The Style combines mime-ish facepaint, frequent confrontation with the audience and musical accompaniment of each movement.
TimeLine Theatre christens its new Uptown building with the Henrik Ibsen work, adapted by Amy Herzog in 2024, about a doctor whose alarming discovery makes him a town pariah.
“These Gen Z artists have a lot to say. And they’re really funny."
The twenty-fifth anniversary reimagining of the musical, now running for over a decade, makes its final stop in Chicago with its current two-week run.
The classic musical at Paramount Theatre abounds with lush scenery, colorful costumes, rich orchestral music and enchanting melodies.
Goodman Theatre’s gothic thriller delivers us from and unto evil.
TUTA Theatre's abbreviated twenty-first-century adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel is a visually striking dive into the mind of a madman.
Liz Chidester gives a terrific star turn as the country music legend, but the American Blues Theater production of this warhorse jukebox musical keeps us at arm’s length from Patsy as a pe…
The musical version of the classic novel makes its world debut at City Lit Theater, a comedy-adventure-romance mixed with dueling and song.
Dave Malloy's wondrous musical at Raven Theatre follows eight people in group therapy for internet addiction who use a cappella singing for healing.
Elizabeth Auman discusses TimeLine Theatre Company's new home, built for performance, and the journey that led them there.
In conversation with Ellyzabeth Adler on the evening-length work, premiering at Chicago Danztheatre’s space in Andersonville's Ebenezer Lutheran Church this month.
A major new theater makes its debut, and music makes its way into spring productions.
Jason Alexander directs this world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, a “marital combat” play with tightly wound action that takes repeated shots at the intimate lives of its coupl…
Northlight Theatre closes their season and their time in Skokie with this hilarious and zany production.
May dance highlights
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s world premiere at Steppenwolf examines the aftermath of a police killing.
“The Great Gatsby: A New Musical” is here for a short run at Broadway in Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre.
A.A. Milne’s 1921 comedy of romantic disillusionment has its moments but doesn’t quite jell.
Writers Theatre's production stars Rae Gray as a Big Tech employee undergoing an evaluation with a therapist played by Christopher Donahue.
Joel Paley's story of a sociopathic child star serves as a meta critique of the musical theater genre.
"Leslie uses her own body—quite bravely—to narrate the horror (and horrific normalization) of human commodification."
More mid-century than modern, this production takes its cues from Caroline Francke's original stage adaptation, set in a 1950s suburban milieu that predates the beloved Steve Martin film.
Mangum, the Lyric's general director, president and CEO, and Mazzola, the Lyric's music director, discuss what's in store for the opera company in the year ahead.
Like marriage itself, the play is not for the faint of heart, but is a journey well worth undertaking.
Long championing the creative power of Latina women, the company's evening-length work is inspired by Chilean poet, journalist and diplomat Gabriela Mistral.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater stages "The Merry Wives of Windsor," a comedy that is produced less often than others in the Bard's canon, but worth catching.
In Wilson's 1982 play, the playwright imagined a recording session for prolific early-blues recording artist Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and her band in Chicago in 1927.
The Artistic Home stages the U.S. premiere of Elizabeth Kuti's play set in 1850 Dublin.
Fernandes' practice encompasses just about any medium you can name"dance, sculpture and design, textiles and fashion, photography and film"and is often in conversation with the spaces that c…
The West Side native and interdisciplinary artist is taking on a new challenge"acting and singing in his own production that draws from gospel hymns, blues, funk and poetry.
Three pieces will premiere in Hedwig's program, which incorporate objects to reveal how human bodies are conversant with and transformed by the designed world.
Gary Houston and Shelby Marie Edwards star as two leads who develop an improbable intellectual chemistry in this play by Kurt McGinnis Brown.
Elshieky discusses the trajectory of his comedy career, from his early days podcasting in Libya to making his break on "Conan."
avery r. young's Afro-surrealist opera, two Jazz Age tales and a new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney are among April's top productions to see.
April dance is in full bloom.
David Byrne and Mala Goankar's show explores the science of perception, taking audience members through experiments involving sight, vision and taste, while telling a story of a life from it…
The producer discusses his Broadway career, from the tragic origins of "Rent" to the tragedy in D.C. that led to this spring's "Hamilton" production in Chicago.
Through the Festival and year-round at Red Clay's studio, Vershawn Sanders-Ward celebrates and nurtures the creativity of Black female artists.