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Chicago's About Face Theatre has hired Andrew Volkoff, who spend five years as associate artistic director of the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts, as its new artistic director.&nbs…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Elephant & The Whale" by Chicago Children's Theatre ★★ ... Elephants are fabulous beasts. The great day I saw a whale jump from the water lives with me still…
Some things have happened to Johnny, Tunny and St. Jimmy since "American Idiot" was last in Chicago in February 2012. The Equity actors who were playing those roles in the first national tou…
The A Red Orchid Theatre production of Sam Shepard's "Simpatico," which is to star longtime collaborators Michael Shannon and Guy Van Swearingen, has been pushed back several weeks. Inst…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whale" at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whale" at Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★ ... Charlie is the dy…
THEATER REVIEW: "In a Garden" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "In a Garden" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★ ... There are architects who make perfectly decent …
The play "Disgraced," penned by Ayad Akhtar, has won the Pulitzer Prize in drama.
Ambitious, biblically inspired production examines limits and virtues of tragedy
THEATER REVIEW: 'Head of Passes' (3 stars) through June 9 at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 1650 N. Halsted St…
NEW YORK — Berry Gordy, the man who discovered Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Mary Wells (and on and on), was a peerless record producer when it came to handp…
THEATER REVIEW: "Oliver" at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Oliver" at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook ★★★½ ... Where y…
"Hit the Wall," the show about the Stonewall Riots that began with the emergent Chicago theater company called The Inconvenience, is to end its run at the Barrow Street Theatre earlier than …
NEW YORK - No smart kid likes condescension. And any halfway clever mum or dad quickly figures out that the way to get a willful child, and they must all be willful, to love something is to …
You might recall the Elvis Costello lyric in "Tramp the Dirt Down," referencing Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister who died Monday: "I'll stand on your grave and tramp the …
THEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "South Pacific" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★a…
THEATER REVIEW: "A Permanent Image" by LiveWire Chicago at the Storefront Theater ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "A Permanent Image" by LiveWire Chicago at the Storefront Theater…
THEATER REVIEW: "Let Them Eat Chaos" at Second City ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Let Them Eat Chaos" at Second City ★★★ ... Ross Bryant, the decidedly thrilling …
THEATER REVIEW: "Barnum" at the Mercury Theater ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Barnum" at the Mercury Theater ★★★ ... "Barnum," the 1980 musical about that great s…
There is something very unusual about Nora Ephron's bio in the Playbill for her new play, "Lucky Guy," a piece about famed tabloid newspaperman Mike McAlary, which opened Monday night on Bro…
BROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
BROADWAY REVIEW: ''Kinky Boots" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre ... Even as the U.S. Supreme Court debates what is marriage, the se…
THEATER REVIEW: "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Catch Me If You Can" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★½ ... Stephen A…
Court Theatre, the longstanding Equity company in residence at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park, will stage the Chicago premiere of Katori Hall's Broadway play about Martin Luther King…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dream of the Burning Boy" at Profiles Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dream of the Burning Boy" at Profiles Theatre ★★½ ... Most big high…
CLAVERING, England — In this rural Essex village stands The Cricketers, the once-quiet pub that launched the career of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who first cooked in his pare…
THEATER REVIEW: "Pedro Paramo" by Teatro Buendia of Havana and the Goodman Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Pedro Paramo" by Teatro Buendia of Havana and the Goodman Theatre a…
Telling stories for 'Big Fish,' the screen-to-stage musical having its pre-Broadway tryouts in Chicago
NEW YORK — A man in a Manhattan rehearsal room asks a young boy a question: "No …
