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THEATER REVIEW: "The Australian Bee Gees Show" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Australian Bee Gees Show" at the Broadway Playhouse ★★ ... Taking on…
Lookingglass Theatre ensemble member Tony Hernandez, currently appearing in “Absinthe” at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip, had an unusual bit of audience participation on T…
Nick Offerman, the former Off-Loop actor who went on to play Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation," now apparently is a big-enough name to headline the Chicago Theatre.&nbs…
LAS VEGAS - On June 29, the top executives of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil were here at the theater inside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, sitting alongside the likes of Justin Bi…
The commercial transfer of the Theo Ubique Theatre Company production of "Smokey Joe's Cafe" has posted its closing notice.
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elevator Repair Service and Sandra Bernhard are all to be part of an expanded MCA Stage program during the 2013-14 season at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. &nb…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Simpatico' at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'Simpatico' at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★½ ... Anyone walking in off the st…
The Broadway and Chicago actress Susie McMonagle is to star in the upcoming Drury Lane Oakbrook production of "Next to Normal," the theater has announced.
The actor John Lithgow is bringing his solo show, "Stories by Heart," to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie for a one-night stand on Nov. 1.
THEATER REVIEW: 'Belleville' at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'Belleville' at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½ Amy Herzog's play begins with a y…
Today's lesson: Paula Deen, whose career has melted down like butter in a hot pan
In the annals of celebrity, chefs are relative newcomers. Some date stars of the kitchen back to Bartolome…
Among life's tribulations, you might not consider your lack of a distinct appendage to your torso to be at the top of the list. But for the character of Woman in Carrie Barrett's unusual new…
Steep Theatre, the respected storefront operation on Chicago's North Side with a niche consisting of new work from the United Kingdom, said Tuesday that it will stage the American premiere o…
As producers and promoters go, Jeff Parry has a certain refreshing honesty. Not a bad attribute when you are producing something called "The Australian Bee Gees Show," replete with the tag l…
Hot Tix, the half-price ticketing operation run by the League of Chicago Theatres, is to open a new location inside the Block Thirty Seven mall, otherwise known as The Shops at 108 N. State.…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater said Tuesday that it will present "The Table," an adult-oriented puppet show informed by Bunraku puppetry and created by the British company Blind Summit Theatre.…
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Jungle Book' at the Goodman Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Jungle Book' at the Goodman Theatre ★★½ ... In the very last scene of Mary Zi…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Big Lake Big City' ★ ★ ½
“Big Lake Big City,” a wildly ambitious and staggeringly unwieldy new Keith Huff comedic pot-boiler set in a town near y…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Tartuffe' ★ ★ ★
Charles Newell's conception for his new Court Theatre production of Moliere's "Tartuffe" took some guts. The deluded family at the heart o…
Why Bernie Sahlins belongs with McCormick, Kroc and Montgomery Ward
So what did Bernie Sahlins, who died June 16, have in common with such fellow Chicagoans as Cyrus McCormick, Ray Kroc, Gu…
No theater in the world has done more for Italian drama than the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, which, despite the diminutive in its name, has become famous for bold productions of works by the l…
Chicago should light up more of its signature buildings — even on nights when the Blackhawks are not winning the Stanley Cup. For one thing, projection technology has advanced to the p…
Goodman artistic director is to helm Beth Henley's play"The Jacksonian" at the New Group in the fall, the New York-based company said Monday.
Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls is to helm playwright Beth Henley's play "The Jacksonian" at the New Group in the fall, the New York-based theater company said Monday. &n…
The touring production of "Ghost The Musical," a show that did reasonably well in London's West End and then came and went quickly on Broadway after being savaged by critics, is coming to Ch…
