This story about a young Black seamstress struggling to make her way in 1905 New York is as gentle as it is persistent, and remains my favorite of Lynn Nottage's plays.
I first saw "Spring Awakening," the Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater musical about adults confining their children to sexual ignorance, more than 15 years ago.
Love often begins at funerals, since those events put everything in context of mortality. We're only her for a while, Helen realizes, so you might as well go after the lover who only looks o…
Daniel Craig brings plenty of talent and star power to "Macbeth" on Broadway, but the production loses its way.
He figured out long ago that he knows how to talk about love, a topic that many male comedians avoid.
Billy Crystal has aged into his role as Buddy Young Jr. perfectly for the Broadway version of "Mr. Saturday Night."
A deeply intimate story about a young man named Usher writing a Broadway musical, this is probably the most sexually explicit musical ever produced.
If the audience at the August Wilson Theatre could have carried Feldstein on its shoulders, it surely would have done so.
Watch the von Trapp kids closely and you'll see a lot of shared glances and frowns as the comings and goings of the adults cause whipsaw changes in the lives of these kids.
It's all a good, PG-13 laugh, a chance to shed one's inhibitions while remaining in a somewhat dignified and safe environment.
Not since the emerald hues of "Wicked" has a show looked more glorious in Chicago's Nederlander Theatre than "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
The play offers up dextrous plotting, sardonic satire, subtle observations about the gray northern life and, above all, an unforgettable central character in Harry, a hangman who also loses …
For those of us of a certain age, it's hard to imagine Ntozake Shange first wrote the lines "Somebody, anybody, sing a black girl's song" nearly half a century ago, and made it to Broadway.
"The Prom," if you've never had the pleasure, deals with a cast of narcissistic Broadway types who try to "rescue" a gay high schooler in Indiana.
When Paula Vogel's play opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to non-existent.
The project will contain a museum, two performing spaces and is earmarked as a performance home for the Congo Square Theatre Company.
New work dominates, although the season concludes with a new production of Harold Pinter's absurdist classic "No Man's Land."
She was, for decades, a reigning diva of the Chicago theater, a rich-voiced star of musicals with a singular presence.
Small town governance? Tracy Letts' play says we're all beasts underneath.
"American Buffalo" is highly entertaining. But it could range deeper into the playwright's soul.
You wish that the younger performers had taken a cue from older cast members, dialed back all the shouting and explored how the deepest wounds we inflict are emotional ones, not verbal wins.
Presto! Mayne Stage, the historic East Rogers Park entertainment venue, will have a new name and new dedication to presenting magic.
Betrayed? Beheaded? So what. The queens now have their court. "Six" is a celebration of, as they say, "her-story," and you can clap and party along.
We first meet Ernestine when she is 17 years old, learning one of her family's most abiding rituals: the baking of a favorite birthday cake
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical might seem to be about the relationship between the authoritarian King of Siam and his feisty hired schoolteacher, but it's also about change, acceptance an…