Fluids drip everywhere in "cullud wattah," the potent new drama by Erika Dickerson-Despenza about the contamination crisis of Flint, Michigan.
"Steel Magnolias" has returned. It's a shrewd comedy and a blast from the past, and director Johanna McKenzie Miller doesn't mess with what works.
The 75th annual Tony Awards were presented Sunday by the American Theatre Wing at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The winners are ...
Michael R. Jackson's "A Strange Loop" earned 11 nominations. Will that translate into 11 wins? What about "Girl From the North Country"?
The new mainstage revue at Second City, "Do the Right Thing, No Worries If Not," invites the audience into the fun.
"Grandmas Jukebox" is a legit, original jukebox musical replete with dialogue scenes, fully-fledged characters and a dramatic through-line.
"American Idol" vocalists Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young are the stars. Nostalgia is a powerful force in the theater but it relies on more truth than this musical currently delivers.
"The Magnolia Ballet" bills itself as a ghost story, and it's certainly an immersive, gothic tale of the Old South, a place where, for a young gay Black man, the walls are howling and wailin…
We often go to the theater to feel we're not alone in our fears. Here's that opportunity with unexpected revelations to boot.
Over the years, its most memorable and acclaimed productions included "The Sparrow," "Death and Harry Houdini" and the show through which it shot to fame, "The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan."
Molly Hernández is a newcomer to the role of Alice and a delightful addition, given her charming personality and warm, guileless demeanor.
The Motown group known as The Temptations navigated a truly stunning repertoire of musical styles over a 62-year history.
Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has hired internally for its top two management positions, the longstanding North Shore venue has announced.
Having just won a Tony Award, Court Theatre delivers with a blisteringly entertaining new Ron OJ Parson production.
Early in Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's classic, young Scout Finch starts telling us about the courtroom in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. She does so with the reverence of a child w…
It's worth noting that Chicago has four new musicals trying out this summer, all shooting toward Broadway.
Court Theatre becomes the first Chicago theater to win the award in more than a decade.
Lloyd Suh's play "The Chinese Lady," now in its Chicago premiere, has a spectacular central performance from Mi Kang.
NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program will resume live audience recordings this June, hosted by Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal.
In Gracie Gardner's two-character play, Athena is a 17-year-old who likes having a warrior moniker. Gardner has written a character study of two smart, self-reflective teenagers with the ad…
These two interesting off-Loop shows are a reminder of the power of Chicago acting.
The new Second City Artistic Advisory Board, announced Tuesday, also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Lynch and Tim Meadows. The theater currently has no artistic director.
Anton Chekhov's 1896 play is famous exploration of the pain and black comedy within a damaged, theatrical family, freshly adapted and directed at Steppenwolf by Yasen Peyankov,
"Rock of Ages" is what you might call a party show, giving the audience a fun jukebox musical full of Bon Jovi and Journey.
Christophe declared himself king of that Caribbean nation in 1811, and then set about building a kind of shadow version of a European monarchy.