Few plays could be less seasonal — but more of the moment — than Arthur Miller's 1964 one-act about a group of men gathered in a war zone, wondering if their identity papers will save th…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:31PMOf all the holiday shows in the world, Emerald City Theatre's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," based on the beloved 1965 animated special, is the Charlie Browniest. Ernie Nolan's staging aims f…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:33PMOf all the holiday shows in the world, Emerald City Theatre's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," based on the beloved 1965 animated special, is the Charlie Browniest. Ernie Nolan's staging aims fo…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:31PMLook around your gatherings this holiday season. Chances are you'll see a blend of the familiar and familial — past, present and future. Ornaments awkwardly crafted by the hands of childre…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:54PMThe temperatures are cooler and peppermint is elbowing pumpkin spice out of the way — which means it's time for holiday cheer on stage. Presenting our annual holiday entertainment guide to…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:22AMTaken together, the three plays in Eclipse Theatre's season devoted to Terrence McNally provide a series of snapshots about the AIDS epidemic and the fears it unleashed in both gay and strai…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:37AMTen years ago, Neo-Futurist founder Greg Allen hit a comic home run with "The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen." As the title proclaimed, that show attempted to filter …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:56PMThe temperatures are cooler and peppermint is elbowing pumpkin spice out of the way — which means it's time for holiday cheer on stage. Presenting our annual holiday entertainment guide to…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:45PMThe line "Let hands do what lips do" in "Romeo and Juliet" may have been the starting point for Red Theater Chicago's American Sign Language-infused "R&J: The Vineyard," presented in associa…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:40PMThis past April, reports surfaced that actor Jon Hamm had been sued as a college undergrad in the early 1990s in connection with a fraternity hazing incident. While the old story may have ta…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30PMNoel Coward's 1932 "Design for Living," about an (eventual) menage a trois seems placid by today's standards, though it certainly got the knickers of the London theater censors in a twist ba…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:05AMNoel Coward's 1932 "Design for Living," about an (eventual) menage a trois seems placid by today's standards, though it certainly got the knickers of the London theater censors in a twist ba…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:00AMRemember Toya Graham? She's the mother in Baltimore who, this past April, dragged her teenage son away from a group of young men who were heading out to protest the death of Freddie Gray in …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:30AMAfter the success of last year's "Animal Farm," Steppenwolf for Young Adults returns to the scene of the thought crime with Andrew White's adaptation of George Orwell's "1984," first produce…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:12PMAfter the success of last year's "Animal Farm," Steppenwolf for Young Adults returns to the scene of the thought crime with Andrew White's adaptation of George Orwell's "1984," first produce…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:36PMImagine an August Wilson play performed by the African American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, and you're getting close to the feeling evoked by Nambi E. Kelley's lyrical "For Her…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:56PMImagine an August Wilson play performed by the African American a cappella group Sweet Honey in the Rock, and you're getting close to the feeling evoked by Nambi E. Kelley's lyrical "For Her…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:21AMIn the age of the selfie, body dysmorphia is king. Then again — hating our physical containers dates back long before the invention of photography, let alone smartphones. Somewhere there's…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:17PMThe weekend of a "blood moon" seems an auspicious time to open a show about the American master of horror. But since First Folio Theatre's "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story" is o…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:50PMLong before Black Lives Matter, there were the Scottsboro Boys. And not long before there was "The Scottsboro Boys," there was "Direct from Death Row The Scottsboro Boys." If you go to Raven…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:19PM"I need my space" is as familiar as "It's not you, it's me" in the lexicon of troubled relationships. But what if actual, literal living space is the problem? That's the question posed in Na…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:19PMRoll up the beach blankets and break out the warm blankets. Fall will be here before you can say "pumpkin spice" and that means a harvest of fine theater. Below are 50 promising shows to fil…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:51AMRoll up the beach blankets and break out the warm blankets. Fall will be here before you can say "pumpkin spice" and that means a harvest of fine theater. Below are 50 promising shows to fil…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 06:00AMMoonshine, mothers and music - and ultimately mayhem - swoop and soar in Damon Kiely's "The Revel," his Appalachian approach to Euripides' "The Bacchae," now in a foot-stomping world premier…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:57PMThrough Sunday, the sixth annual Chicago Fringe Festival takes over a variety of venues in Jefferson Park with 46 shows and 192 total performances. The acts are selected by lottery, rather t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:49PMWith drought reaching historic proportions in California and other Western states, a guy like Bill Starbuck might just be poised for a comeback. The eponymous character of N. Richard Nash's …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 03:40PMFamiliar types - or should I say avatars - run rampant throughout Madhuri Shekar's "In Love and Warcraft." "Cyrano de Bergerac" is one obvious antecedent. Those who saw Rolin Jones' "The Int…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:18PMThose who bemoan the tendency of theater producers to play it safe by staging familiar movie products probably have "Dirty Dancing" tucked away in their prosecutorial evidence files. This sh…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:46PMIn one of my favorite episodes of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," Larry David got in trouble for yelling a remark to Wanda Sykes that made reference to a portion of her anatomy, resulting in a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:15PM"I wanted to meet different kinds of people and find out if I liked them," says Nellie Forbush early on in "South Pacific," explaining why she became a Navy nurse and ended up far away from …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 01:31PMBack before "The Book of Mormon" said hello, "Altar Boyz" brought a sweet satirical touch to proselytization through pop music and the voices of Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan (he's Mexican) and …
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