If you don't know this beautiful memoir musical, it's based on a graphic novel by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, growing up in the 1970s in a small Pennsylvania town.
With a savvy sense of the moment, TimeLine has a salacious comedy about the blistering 1934 fight for California's governorship between Republican Frank Merriam and author Upton Sinclair.
As heavenly as the return to strength of Canada's Stratford Festival feels, hell is very much a thing in the Ontario farmland this year.
The reason Lauren Weisberger's memoir became famous was not just because of the juicy movie with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It's because Weisberger could see that the thirst for power …
Salazar died at her Chicago home Aug. 3. She is remembered as "an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime, super arts activist."
The names aren't included here and don't matter a jot for the point I am making. Chicago theater needs to be a community again.
There's too much talent at the Mercury Theater to make everyone sing to a canned backing track in "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."
This production, choreographed by Drew McOnie, really should get its shot on Broadway, especially given what Aaron LaVigne is doing.
Susan Booth is to take the artistic helm at the Goodman Theatre, replacing Robert Falls, who is stepping down after 35 years.
"The Kite Runner" on Broadway is based on the beloved book, but the story doesn't work as well on the stage as it does on the page.
The movie comes from the early aughts, when the world was a different place. "A lot has changed," Elton John says. The musical "Devil Wears Prada" opens first in Chicago, with Broadway next.
Given that he won a Tony Award for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," Simon Stephens' support of Steep might seem an act of altruism. But not really. Steep has given Steph…
At various point in this show, the woods represent adventure, abandonment, ungrateful children, sexual betrayal, worry, pain and, of course, death.
The crisis at Victory Gardens Theater deepened Friday as the company canceled all of its upcoming performances of "cullud wattah."
Felicia Pearl Fields, a Chicago treasure, sure can sing the blues. Now she has a show fully worthy of her talents.
The Tony Award-winning Chicago theater appears to have entered another deeply unstable period.
Parodies work better with honesty, but this world premiere based on the 1953 science fiction movie is still great fun.
The tour of the 2018 revival of "My Fair Lady," a romance-less romantic comedy, arrives in Chicago.
The Greek god Dionysus appears in the Garden State in the guise of Diane, a lesbian permaculture landscape gardener.
This charming musical at Theo Ubique is musical director Jeremy Ramey's swan song.
Most Tarell Alvin McCraney's plays are more metaphoric, "Choir Boy" is closer, really, to the movie "Moonlight." This is a four-star play, now in Chicago.
Alice blames herself for her father's death. She wishes she had not had that last fight. And in the talented Britta Johnson's creation, she needs to know more about his death.
She's as much a comedy improviser as a magician and now she has a bigger stage to make her signature cocktails appear, vanish and morph into other libations entirely.
After more than two years in the COVID-19 wilderness, Chicago's Steep Theatre is back in action and with a new theater and free tickets to boot.
"Life After," a new Canadian musical at the Goodman Theatre, is all about grief.