'Bel Canto' to premiere on Chicago Lyric Opera stage
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two things make the Lyric Opera of Chicago's world premiere of "Bel Canto" on Monday unique: Famed soprano Renee Fleming commissioned the wo…
CHICAGO (AP) -- Two things make the Lyric Opera of Chicago's world premiere of "Bel Canto" on Monday unique: Famed soprano Renee Fleming commissioned the wo…
CHICAGO (AP) -- John Mahoney is known to most television fans for playing Frasier Crane's father on the long-running series "Frasier," but the actor has spent much of his time in the yea…
CHICAGO (AP) -- More than two decades after she last acted on the Steppenwolf stage, Joan Allen has returned to the theater where she started her career as the lead in the company's seas…
CHICAGO (AP) -- Acclaimed Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz says he's hard at work on a full draft of his next endeavor, the musical "Houdini" that has actor Hugh Jackman playing the le…
CHICAGO (AP) -- Before he became a famous TV star on "Friends," actor and director David Schwimmer helped start a theater company in Chicago with a group of his Northwestern University c…
CHICAGO (AP) -- Comedy fans know the names - John Belushi, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Joan Rivers - but before those famous faces graced Hollywood movies or the "Saturday Night Live" sta…
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gemze de Lappe first danced in "Oklahoma!" in 1943 as a member of the Broadway hit's first national touring company. Seventy years later, at age 91, she's still with it -…
CHICAGO (AP) -- The New York-bound musical "Kinky Boots" enjoyed a pre-Broadway run at a downtown Chicago theater this fall, but only after the state of Illinois lured producers with som…
CHICAGO (AP) -- More than two decades after she last graced the stage in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane is returning to the theater in a Chicag…