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Not long ago, in a shopping mall, I ran into Mike Tyson.
Redmoon Theatre, the 23-year-old Chicago performance, spectacle and party-creation company, said Thursday that it is vacating its longtime "Redmoon Central" headquarters in the West Lo…
The hit Theo Ubique production of "Smokey Joe's Cafe,' the revue of the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, is to have a commercial transfer to the Royal George Theatre's cabaret space. …
Jonathan Munby's visually thrilling, exciting and richly wrought production of "Julius Caesar" — which opened Wednesday night and features everything from a flash mob to a hot-dog stan…
Gene Weygandt will star as P. T. Barnum in the Mercury Theatre's upcoming production of the musical "Barnum," the Mercury has announced. Also starring: Corey Goodrich and Summer Naomi Smart.
THEATER REVIEW: 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' at Water Tower Water Works
Can a talking Bengal tiger in the Baghdad zoo serve as both a narrator and a ghost?
"Old Jews Telling Jokes," the Off-Broadway celebration of Jewish comedy penned by the president of Random House Studio and the former public editor of the New York Times, is to have a ded…
THEATER REVIEW: "Teddy Ferrara" at the Goodman Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Teddy Ferrara" at the Goodman Theatre ★★
Real story of Columbine is told as survivors' views unfold onstage -- and in audience
You could tell the people from the Columbine community by how they reacted to the many gunshots in the…
When an artist is telling a story about a shooting that killed children in a school, a very real shooting like the one that forever scarred the soul of Columbine High School in Littleton, Co…
THEATER REVIEW: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill" by Porchlight Music Theatre ★…
"We're inventing a Rome," said Jonathan Munby over lunch recently, "that looks and feels like contemporary Washington."
"Disconnect," the aptly named new play by Anupama Chandrasekhar at the Victory Gardens Theater, is set in a collection agency in Chennai, India, where smart, ambitious and energetic young In…
"Shrek The Musical" is to be Chicago Shakespeare Theater's summer musical on Navy Pier, and Rachel Rockwell is to direct.
THEATER REVIEW: Sunset Boulevard at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: Sunset Boulevard at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½ ... Never the subtlest of mega-musicals,…
Caught in a twilight realm among historical drama, melodrama and magic realism, playwright Reginald Edmund's "Southbridge" doesn't quite provide a structure sturdy enough to hold all its nar…
Can "The Birthday Party" be celebrated in a wide-open space? It depends, surely, on the intent of the event. As the history of the 20th century teaches us, and as the Nobel laureate Harold P…
When John Mackey, the maverick co-chief executive of Whole Foods, first criticized President Barack Obama's proposed health care law in a 2009 Wall Street Journal article, there was an immed…
The hit Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" is coming back in the late spring.
THEATER REVIEW: "Peter Pan" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Peter Pan" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★ ... Having played Peter Pan…
THEATER REVIEW: "Sweet Charity" at Writers' Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Sweet Charity" at Writers' Theatre ★★★ ... Tiffany Topol has about everything yo…
In these free, privileged United States, the phrase "Sex in the City" conjures up a premium-cable experience of hot nights, cool fashion, heavy appetizers and relationship angst so light it …
Rachel Rockwell, the Chicago director whose career has flourished at such musical theaters as the Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace and the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, is to make her Goodman T…
THEATER REVIEW: "Luther" at Steep Theatre in Chicago ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Luther" at Steep Theatre in Chicago ★★ ... An intensely conceptual play like "Luther" relies…
Profiles Theatre has postponed the opening of its latest production, "The Dream of the Burning Boy." At this juncture, all scheduled performances of the play by West Read have been cancelled.
