4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Clown Car Named Desire' ★ ★ ★ ★
"I see people out front," observes the sad-eyed man at the Second City e.t.c., "just crying." &nb…
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Clown Car Named Desire' ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Clown Car Named Desire' ★★★★ ... "I see people out front," observes the sa…
The Saturday night crowd at The Second City got to see a performer not on the usual bill: Tom Hanks.
A hilarious relic, the cheerfully sexist French farce "Boeing-Boeing" involves a Paris-based lothario who concocts a scheme to live with three gorgeous stewardesses from three of the finer i…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Boeing-Boeing' at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'Boeing-Boeing' at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½ ... A hilarious relic, the cheerfully sexis…
The 12-million viewers who tuned into the final episode of "The Sopranos" in 2007 thought there was a good chance Tony Soprano would get whacked. There was an irrefutable logic to such a den…
Over eight years as Tony Soprano on The Sopranos James Gandolfini created a character so astonishingly empathetic, the travails of organized crime easily became a metaphor for the quotidian …
The Dramatists Guild of America, the trade organization for playwrights, is to hold its annual conference in Chicago in August, bringing to town such theatrical luminaries as (among other…
THEATER REVIEW: "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" at Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Buddy" at Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★ ...Since "Buddy: The Buddy Holly S…
"Mine," the very arresting and intensely personal new play by Laura Marks at the Gift Theatre, begins with a young woman having a baby at home and takes place entirely during the next few we…
THEATER REVIEW: "Mine," the very arresting and intensely personal new play by Laura Marks at the Gift Theatre, begins with a young woman having a baby at home.
The holiday attraction at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place will be a show with origins at First Stage, an Equity children's theater in Milwaukee.
Play piercingly contrasts social mores a half-century apart
Around the moment of Chicago's gay-pride parade and festival in 2011, About Face Theatre enjoyed a big hit with Phillip Dawkins' …
The TBS Just for Laughs comedy festival has wrapped for another summer in Chicago, having played out in venues changing from the Chicago Theatre to Stage 773. Here are reviews from select sh…
Writers Theatre in Glecoe has announced some of its seasonal casting for 2013-14.
The last time Bill Maher headlined at the Chicago Theatre, he had Ann Coulter along for, forgive me, balance. That, it felt, was a rivalry born in mutual expediency, a mock political debate …
THEATER REVIEW: "I need some ladies up here," declared Howlin' Wolf, as channeled through Rick Stone, at Black Ensemble Theatre on Sunday.
THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't No Crying the Blues (In the Memory of Howlin' Wolf)" at Black Ensemble Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Ain't No Crying the Blues (In the Memory of Howl…
The national tour of the Broadway hit "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to "Peter Pan" aimed mostly at adults, will stop through Chicago for two weeks next April at the Bank of America …
Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, the co-founder and former owner of Second City and a crucial and essential innovator in the field of American comedy, died peacefully Sunday at his home, his wife J…
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Cole Porter Songbook' at Theo Ubique Theatre Company ★★★½
Vocal quality really matters at the Theo Ubique Theatre Company, the shabby-chic venue for …
Rudyard Kipling hated Chicago. "It holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta," wrote the man whom George Orwell dubbed "the prop…
THEATER REVIEW: 'West Side Story' at the Oriental Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'West Side Story' at the Oriental Theatre ★★★ ... Four years now have passe…
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Three Musketeers' at Lifeline Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Three Musketeers' at Lifeline Theatre ★★½ ... Before you can mouth "all for…
On a stunning Tony Awards night for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, whose revival of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” proved triumphant in more categories than expected, …
