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Citing the need for financial responsibility and a desire to conserve resources for the 40th anniversary season, Victory Gardens Theater artistic director Chay Yew announced Monday that the …
Had Evan Linder not already penned a Chicago-and-New York hit titled "5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche," you might say he'd come up with an unusual title with "The Bear Suit of Happiness." But Lin…
The provenance of "Cinderella" is long ago and far away — she's been around at least since the 17th century in written form, and some date her all the way to classical antiquity.
Buzz22 Chicago production shines in annual 3-play series
You'd easily think that "She Kills Monsters" the clever, funny, moving, lively and delightfully geeky standout at this year's Garage…
Remember what Molly Ivins said: 'Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful'
Oscar hosts are supposed to be irreverent and edgy, ot…
THEATER REVIEW: "Everything Is Illuminated" by Next Theatre at Noyes Cultural Center ★★★½
You've doubtless pondered the role that chance plays in life -- who wins, who …
The Goodman Theatre announced its 2013-14 season Wednesday, a slate that includes a new play by Rebecca Gilman, a blues-infused Cheryl L. West drama about Pullman porters, Mary Zimmerman's "…
THEATER REVIEW: "The City & The City" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The City & The City" at Lifeline Theatre ★★½ ... Although there surely is a whod…
William Petersen, the actor with longtime roots on the Chicago stage, is to appear this summer at the Steppenwolf Theatre in a two-person show about a teenager and her reculsive uncle in Cos…
THEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★ ... Most heroes do not win their loves by teasing t…
It takes Danny Goldring to liven up "25 Saints."
THEATER REVIEW: "From Doo Wop to Hip Hop at Black Ensemble Theater" ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "From Doo Wop to Hip Hop at Black Ensemble Theater" ★★★
Northlight Theatre is announcing part of its 2013-14 season, including a new production of Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," the Chicago-area premiere of "4000 Miles" by Amy Herzog and a newÂ…
Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has announced its 2013-14 season.
Chicago's American Theater Company has announced a significant extension its hit production of "Columbinus," the work about the Columbine High School shootings, and will postpone its planned…
If people do not feel safe, the cultural jewels of the city are in jeopardy
A decade or so ago, executive and philanthropist John H. Bryan Jr., the former CEO of Sara Lee Corp., raised a br…
If you set out to re-create the ambience of The Shrine, the feverishly infamous Lagos music venue ruled by the Nigerian icon, Afrobeat guru and political revolutionary Fela Anikulapo Kuti, l…
THEATER REVIEW: "Cadre" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Cadre" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½ ... The voice of Nelson Mandela crackles …
Nora Dunn, a prominant former cast member of "Saturday Night Live," is to premiere a new one-woman show at Theatre Wit in Chicago this summer.
THEATER REVIEW: "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology" by Collaboraction Theatre Company ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology" by Collaboraction Theatre C…
The new touring production of "Les Miserables," which was a huge hit in Chicago this fall, is headed back to Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh announced Tuesday.
"To Master the Art," William Brown and Doug Frew's biographical drama about the life and work of the famed culinary icon Julia Child, is to have a reprise commercial engagement at the Broadw…
The Broadway musical "Wicked," which ran for more than three-and-a-half years in a dedicated Chicago production from 2005 to 2009, is making another return visit to the city that so embraced…
Ex-champ has an ability to see the man he once was as a character, wholly separate from the man he now has become
At one point in his touring one-man show, Mike Tyson, the ear-biter, convic…
After I pointed out that the Goodman Theatre production of Christopher Shinn's "Teddy Ferrara" contains a goodly amount of onstage groping, poking and unbuttoning, a fevered member of the Tw…
