Steppenwolf Theatre Company said that its new, in-the-round theater and education center will be named the Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Arts and Education Center.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:00AMSome of the audience is seated on the stage in swivel chairs, rocking and swaying like nervous competitors in a quiz show. Much the same could be said for the characters in what is typically…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:37PMAs part of this new commercial endeavor by restaurateur Rick Bayless and the ever-innovative Windy City Playhouse, you get to eat roasted dates with smoky Gorgonzola dolce and cilantro, Za…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMDirector Daryl Cloran has stuffed 23 Beatles songs inside the comedic vessel known as “As You Like It.” At various points, Shakespeare's characters break into everything from “Let it B…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:25PMMuch of the material in this 109th mainstage revue worries over division: the fear of parents exposing their child to a grandparent, the battles at school board meetings.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:05PMIf you walk through the doors of the “The Lehman Trilogy,” which finally opened at the Nederlander after falling to the pandemic in 2020, rest assured that you will understand the events…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:30PM"Songs for a New World" at Theo Ubique Theatre peaks out at a changed universe with the songs of Jason Robert Brown
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:33PMRemarkably, the original stars of the Broadway musical were present on the stage in New York, even though their show missed its official opening, and maybe a Tony Award or two, by one day.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00PMThis is a one-woman show featuring music made famous by Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas. Quite a range of singers.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:53PMIf this messy but entertaining fall show penned by José Cruz González found the right producers, it could easily become a new Broadway musical. Many elements are already there, including t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:10PMThe new production at the Lyric feels alive in every glamorous way. And Charles Castronovo is unbeatable as Nemorino.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:50PMAfter 27 months of Tony Awards silence, the 2021 ceremony wouldn’t be about cutthroat competition and raging egos. Instead, it would be as close as possible to a primetime commercial to ge…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:08AMIn Paul Stancato’s casual production, the Plaids had adjusted to the new world order, ad-libbing about germs, but still singing ”Three Coins in a Fountain” and “Catch a Falling Star…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:50PMI miss the music: After 18 months of closure, the Marriott Theatre returns with a COVID adaptation of a Kander and Ebb revue.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PMA creepy ‘Macbeth’ in Chicago fights deliciously with the recovery narrative so common in the arts. Here you had a night of healing togetherness followed by an opera in which the heavens…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:43PMFalls has been the most influential figure of Chicago theater of his generation and his departure is a milestone in the Chicago arts.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:02PMFalls has been the most influential figure of Chicago theater of his generation and his departure is a milestone in the Chicago arts.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:00PMNavy Pier will host a series of outdoor performances Sept. 24-25. Dubbed “Chicago LIVE Again,” the two-day festival will have performances produced by Broadway in Chicago, Chicago Childr…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:53PMTheater Wit’s decision to return (sooner than most) to live off-Loop performance with a reprise of its 2015 production of Anne Washburn’s hit is clearly designed to get its audience thin…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:16PMHere, in the return of a September tradition, are 10 shows that should help you remember why Chicago theater is such a crucial part of this city. Plus one more for the holidays.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:25AMThe Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new musical director, Enrique Mazzola, gave his first major public performance in Millennium Park. There was excitement in the air.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:25PMAfter a two-year delay, "Kinky Boots" opens at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora. You can feel the emotions bursting out of the hearts of the cast.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:22PMBlue Man Group returns to Chicago's Briar Street Theatre after a COVID-19 pandemic pause. Critic Chris Jones reviews the latest iteration.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:52PMThe Goodman's first show back is an exuberant production from the director Lili-Anne Brown that is an excellent match for the moment.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:05PMChicago’s venerable Studebaker Theater, opened in 1898 and located inside the Fine Arts Building at 410 S. Michigan Ave., has both a new artistic director, Jacob Harvey, and a hefty renova…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMChicago Shakespeare Theater announced its new indoor fall season, blending postponed productions from last season with new attractions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:45PMI covered Jackie Mason’s live shows in and around Chicago for 20 years. This involved a variety of unchanging rituals and mutually assured deceptions.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 08:00AMGlenn Davis, 40, and Audrey Francis, 42, will succeed Anna D. Shapiro, who announced her departure in May, effective at the end of August, and after six years in the high-visibility and inev…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:55AMThe first big show to return to Chicago’s Loop, Teatro ZinZanni is, at its core, a continental-style dinner circus with shades of old-school vaudeville.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:55AMWriters Theatre said Wednesday that Michael Halberstam, its co-founder and the only artistic director it has known during its decades of growth, was resigning effective immediately.
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:30PMMark Kelly, Chicago’s widely admired leader of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), announces he will retire.
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