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At Sunday afternoon's opening of "It's All-Right to Have a Good Time: The Story of Curtis Mayfield" at Black Ensemble Theater, two of the 10 sons of the great Chicago-born singer and songwri…
THEATER REVIEW: "4000 Miles" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "4000 Miles" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★★½ ... Amy Herzog'…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Wheel" from Steppenwolf Theatre Company ★ ★ ★ ½
Here in Chicago, of course, you do not have to look to Africa to see children impacted by violence…
Tweeting while polite civilization burns and creativity is stifled
Is Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? …
In 1978, before the merger of show business and politics was complete, it was still possible to build a show with the shocking premise that a working-class actress with a body and a dream co…
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumnar, better known as Sting, will tryout his new Broadway musical in Chicago this June, confirming previously published expectations. "The Last Ship," as the show is …
THEATER REVIEW: "9 Circles" by Sideshow Theatre Company at the Storefront ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "9 Circles" by Sideshow Theatre Company at the Storefront ★★ύ…
THEATER REVIEW: "To Master the Art" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "To Master the Art" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★★ ... Thursday night's …
"The Book of Morman," which ends its Chicago engagement at the Bank of America Theatre on Oct. 6 after 43 weeks and 344 performances, is coming back to Chicago, likely during the fall or win…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Killer Angels" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Killer Angels" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½ ... To survey the Gettysburg Battlefiel…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company anounced Wednesday that its annual Women in the Arts benefit luncheon will this year honor the actresses Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale and Julianne Nicholson.�…
THEATER REVIEW: "In the Heights" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "In the Heights" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★½ ... The m…
Katori Hall's 'Mountaintop' fills in the space between Martin Luther King Jr.'s last speech, death
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Ten…
PigPen Theatre Co., a group of handsome, musically talented young men who met at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, are certainly riding a forceful wave with their ensemble-forged piece of…
BRANSON, Mo. — Known simply as "Six," the Knudsen Brothers (Barry, Kevin, Lynn, Jak, Owen and Curtis) have a wholesome variety show out here on Highway 76, wherein they use only their …
The Off-Broadway comedy "Buyer & Cellar," starring Michael Urie, is headed to Chicago. The limited engagement begins next April at Broadway in Chicago's Broadway Playhouse. …
A Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member returning to Chicago to appear in a show at Steppenwolf is not typically big news. Why else have an ensemble? But the case of Joan Allen is diff…
THEATER REVIEW: "This is War" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "This is War" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★ ... On the face of it, the Sign…
"Carrie," one of most Broadway's most infamous Broadway flops, is making its first appearance in Chicago. The campy musical, recently revived Off-Broadway where it flopped again, will be the…
In the realm of high fantasy, complexity is a badge of honor. This has been true since the days of J.R.R. Tolkien, whose seminal works of the genre are neither brief nor monolithic reads, an…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Hank Williams: Lost Highway' by American Blues Theater at the Greenhouse ★★★½
Musical biographies are as common in Chicago as family fiddlers on Highwa…
Grisham's legal thriller headlines star-filled lineup
John Grisham has written novels, short stories, books for children and nonfiction works, and in all of the above, he has done very nic…
After 19 years directing in area theaters large and small, you'd hardly call Kimberly Senior any kind of sudden success. Still, it's hard to think of another Chicago director with a remotely…
The temperature outside the doors of the Black Ensemble Theatre was 96 degrees. In the lobby inside, Reginald Torian was the epitome of old-school cool: pressed linen pants, two-tone shoes, …
The fall theater season of 2013 is already very much underway. From the scores of intriguing possibilities, here are 10 Chicago shows, opening between now and the holidays, that sound especi…
