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The Chicago-based actor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Tracy Letts is headed back to Broadway this spring, it was announced on Wednesday.
THEATER REVIEW: "Master Class" at Theo Ubique Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Master Class" at Theo Ubique Theatre ★★½ ... "Master Class," the Terrence McNally pl…
THEATER REVIEW: "Motortown" at Steep Theatre ★★★½
Detroit might be America's Motor City, but the "Motortown" of Simon Stephens' bleak, searing, deeply disturbing play o…
The new book "Bigger, Brighter, Louder" recalls Claudia Cassidy and others who wrote the first draft of Chicago's theater history.
The Actors' Equity union has a new leader for its Chicago office, which overs the middle third of America.
THEATER REVIEW: "Once" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Once" at the Oriental Theatre ★★★★ ... "How's the heart?" asks the Da in…
THEATER REVIEW: "Wrecks" at Profiles Theatre ★★★½
Drive past a funeral home in Chicago and you often catch a glimpse of them: big, middle-aged men uncomfortable with gr…
Marguerite Duras' semi-autobiographical novel "L'Amant," or "The Lover," paints in many hues. It is a tactile portrait of the colors of Southern Indochina in 1929; it reminds us that not all…
— With the indefatigable, deeply engaged and seemingly irreplaceable Norbert Leo Butz driving its storytelling and willing the show's crucial emotional subtext into being by sheer forc…
THEATER REVIEW: "Tercer Cuerpo" at MCA Chicago ★ ★
THEATER REVIEW: "Tercer Cuerpo" at MCA Chicago ★ ★ It's refreshing to the see the MCA's ever-interesting performan…
The news this week that Oprah Winfrey is likely to sell, or otherwise extricate herself from, some or all of her signature Harpo Studios on Chicago's Near West Side seemed to put the final p…
Dale Benson, a Chicago actor whose career spans six decades, is to receive a special Joseph Jefferson Award at the November ceremony, the Jeff Awards committee said Friday. …
Sandy Shinner, the former associate artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater, has a new job. She is to become producing artistic director of the Shattered Globe Theatre, a venerable …
Those "Old Jews Telling Jokes" have excellent timing.
THEATER REVIEW: "Cyrano de Bergerac" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Cyrano de Bergerac" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★ ... Edmond Rostand's ma…
Frankie Valli, the original Jersey Boy, returns to Chicago Saturday night for a concert at the Chicago Theatre. He talked about the "Jersey Boys" movie, among other topics, in the edited tal…
"Once," the beautiful Broadway musical based on the 2007 movie starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, finally arrives in Chicago next week; the stand at the Oriental Theatre is the first…
The iconoclastic movie star Bill Murray is always on the guest list for events celebrating anniversaries and the like at The Second City. But the famously unpredictable actor invariably does…
THEATER REVIEW: "Signs of Life" at the Biograph Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Signs of Life" at the Biograph Theater ★★½ ... There are "Signs of Life" in the am…
In the first few minutes of David Leveaux's modern-dress revival of "Romeo and Juliet," which opened on Broadway this month and that put me in mind of one of David Copperfield's extravaganza…
NEW YORK — We humans are strange creatures, forever craving reinvention and yet unable to prevent our pasts from dancing around in our heads. No poet or playwright ever understood that…
Over lunch recently at Howells & Hood, the creators of the show "Old Jews Telling Jokes" were chortling about their sign. Signage is often an issue at the Royal George Theatre on Chicago's N…
Tarell Alvin McCraney, a 2003 graduate of DePaul University’s Theatre School, an ensemble member at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 2010, a sometime Chicago actor, and a writer k…
THEATER REVIEW: "Pullman Porter Blues" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Pullman Porter Blues" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★ ... The immaculately …
Broadway in Chicago has announced several new bookings for the upcoming season, most of which are reprise engagements of popular touring attractions, although some are new productions. …
