4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
THEATER REVIEW: "Ask Aunt Susan" at the Goodman Theatre ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Ask Aunt Susan" at the Goodman Theatre ★½ ... When, in its first few minutes, the Goodman Theat…
The Jackalope Theatre Company's hit production of Ike Holter's "Exit Strategy," a play about the final days of a Chicago Public School slated for closure, has sold out its entire run at the …
THEATER REVIEW: "One Hit Wonders" at Black Ensemble Theater ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "One Hit Wonders" at Black Ensemble Theater ★★ "One Hit Wonders" treats us to only abo…
THEATER REVIEW: "Days Like Today" at Writers Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Days Like Today" at Writers Theatre ★★★ ... Alan Schmuckler, the phenomenally t…
THEATER REVIEW: "Days Like Today" at Writers Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Days Like Today" at Writers Theatre ★★★ ... Alan Schmuckler, the phenomenally t…
If you're a furious chef, incensed by the ignorance of the bloated bloggers or the yahoos on Yelp trashing your restaurant without mercy, training or expertise, the National Restaurant Assoc…
THEATER REVIEW: "Charles Ives Take Me Home" at Strawdog Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Charles Ives Take Me Home" at Strawdog Theatre ★★★ ... Playwright Je…
Chicago will have the world premiere of a new Broadway-bound musical based on the life and music of the superstar singer Gloria Estefan and her entrepreneurial producer husband, Emilio Es…
THEATER REVIEW: "M. Butterfly" at Court Theatre ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "M. Butterfly" at Court Theatre ★½ ... Now a quarter of a century old, the Tony Award-winning play "M. B…
THEATER REVIEW: "Exit Strategy" at the Broadway Armory ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Exit Strategy" at the Broadway Armory ★★★★ ... At once poetic, p…
THEATER REVIEW: "Man in a Case" at MCA Chicago ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Man in a Case" at MCA Chicago ★★★ ... To say that you should go and see one of the gr…
The artist had won a prestigious award with a big cash prize. "I am truly humbled," he wrote the other day on Facebook. Well, actually, no he wasn't. No way.
A Red Orchid Theatre, a longtime fixture of Chicago's Off Loop community, announced Thursday that it has established a new partnership with the New York-based Bisno Productions, aimed at tra…
Broadway actor Ben Vereen showed up unannounced at American Theater Company's revisionist production of "Hair" and told the cast they had rescued the show. Mikhail Baryshnikov hit town, doin…
THEATER REVIEW: "The White Snake" at the Goodman Theatre ★★½
They may be characters in an ancient Chinese fable — with written roots slithering as far back as the Ming …
The Chicago Commercial Collective's production of Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall" is to close May 25, it was announced late on Wednesday.
THEATER REVIEW: "Jack Lemmon Returns" at the Royal George Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Jack Lemmon Returns" at the Royal George Theatre ★★½ ... At one point in…
This weekend, one of the most famous international names in dance, Mikhail Baryshnikov, returns to Chicago as the star of "Man in a Case," a performance piece built by Paul Lazar and Annie-B…
THEATER REVIEW: "Lost in Yonkers" at Northlight Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Lost in Yonkers" at Northlight Theatre ★★★★ ... I hadn't seen t…
THEATER REVIEW: "Hit the Wall" ★★★★ and "5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche" ★★★ by Chicago Commercial Collective
THEATER REVIEW: "Hit the Wall" ★ …
There are, I think, two very distinct kinds of fame. One is a mostly desirable state of being: It gets you good tables at restaurants, a feeling of accomplishment, a pass through the lines o…
"We're always talking about teaching,” says one of the Chicago Public Schools teachers in Joe Zarrow's new play, “Principal Principle.” “We don't need some rubric …
THEATER REVIEW: "Motown the Musical" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Motown the Musical" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½ ... In one of the most reveal…
The Hypocrites, the longtime Off-Loop theater company that has seen strong growth in its national identity, is to take up permanent residence as the anchor tenent of a new 200-seat theater i…
THEATER REVIEW: "Henry V" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Henry V" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★ ... The British director Christ…
