4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
THEATER REVIEW: "Thinner Than Water" at Gift Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Thinner Than Water" at Gift Theatre ★★★½ ... Nothing roils a fractured f…
"All Our Tragic," Sean Graney's attempt to turn the 32 surviving tragedies from Ancient Greece into one single, epic narrative, will form the centerpiece of the fall season of The Hypocrites…
BROADWAY REVIEW: 'If/Then' at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
BROADWAY REVIEW: 'If/Then' at the Richard Rodgers Theatre ... "I don't want to be a new kind of married," howls one of the self-do…
REVIEW: "Depraved New World" at the Second City ★★★
REVIEW: "Depraved New World" at the Second City ★★★ ... When the cast of Mick Napier's latest Second …
What became of the parents who lost their children to AIDS 20 or 25 years ago? Most of those parents are, after all, still alive.
NEW YORK — Rick Elice and Roger Rees are a quintessential New York couple. So much so, in fact, that their apartment, located on Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side, serve…
BROADWAY REVIEW: A quarter century ago during the AIDS crisis, as some Americans fought for the right just to die young with dignity, angry mothers could be seen at the funerals of their son…
THEATER REVIEW: "Road Show" at Chicago Shakespeare Upstairs Theater ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Road Show" at Chicago Shakespeare's Upstairs Theater ★★★&…
BROADWAY REVIEW: Disney's "Aladdin"
BROADWAY REVIEW: Disney's "Aladdin" ... Early in "Aladdin," Disney's new Broadway-musical version of the beloved 1992 animated feature, the chipper stree…
When Kevin Spacey showed up at the Oscars as a presenter earlier this month, he came prepared with a very shrewd bit, adopting the persona of Frank Underwood, his character on "House of Card…
The most common question from readers? Is (title of show) suitable for my (age)-year-old? I got one just today about "Rent." It was one of several this week.
THEATER REVIEW: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" at Cadillac Palace T…
Chris Lemmon, the son of the late Hollywood actor Jack Lemmon, is headed to the Royal George Theatre mainstage with a new play with music about his relationship with his legendary, Academy A…
THEATER REVIEW: "Venus in Fur" at the Goodman Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Venus in Fur" at the Goodman Theatre ★★½ ... The term "masochism" — the practi…
THEATER REVIEW: "Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England" at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England" at Theater Wit ★★&…
THEATER REVIEW: "Rent" by Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Rent" by Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½ ... I have reviewed "Rent" at…
THEATER REVIEW: "Water by the Spoonful" at Court Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Water by the Spoonful" at Court Theatre ★★★ ... Some writers, especially th…
The depth of the Chicago winter next year is to be enlivened by the coming of puppets from far and wide.
THEATER REVIEW: "Chapatti" by Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Chapatti" by Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★★½ ... When Dan, the t…
THEATER REVIEW: "Arguendo" by Elevator Repair Service at MCA Chicago
THEATER REVIEW: "Arguendo" by Elevator Repair Service at MCA Chicago ... In the case of Barnes v. Glen Theatre Inc., the…
THEATER REVIEW: "American Myth" by American Blues Theater ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "American Myth" by American Blues Theater ★½ ... For a play supposedly concerned with the vera…
It takes time to create a television documentary, and filmmakers Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin have said they spent much of a year amassing 1,000 hours of video to make their CNN true-crime d…
NEW YORK — Broadway's mostly doomed attempts at capturing the boundless American enthusiasm for professional sports, and the billions of associated dollars, have been handicapped by on…
The veteran Chicago actor Larry Yando, best known at present for his annual turn as Ebenezer Scrooge at the Goodman Theatre, will play "King Lear" in a new production of William Shakespeare'…
On Thursday night, "Rocky the Musical" opened on Broadway. Its reported budget, much of which was spent on a truly (trust me) eye-popping set? $16.5 million.
