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THEATER REVIEW: "The Magnificents" at House Theatre Chicago ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Magnificents" at House Theatre Chicago ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whipping Man" (3.5 stars) through Feb. 24 at North Shore Center for the Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes; tickets: $25-$72 at 847-673-6…
THEATER REVIEW: "Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West" at TimeLine Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West" at TimeLine …
Why wander when potential riches are just ahead to the south?
At first glance, the Chicago Cultural Mile ("Where Culture & Commerce Meet") resembles nothing so much as a gerrymandered congr…
Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre anounced Thursday that is has added two of its longtime collaborators, Anthony Fleming III and Kevin Douglas, to its ensemble of artists. Both have acted frequ…
At the start — the rough start — of the Marriott Theatre's new revue of the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, entitled, with justification, "Now & Forever," the throbbing electronic …
David Cromer, the longtime Chicago director whose New York career was launched after his production of “Our Town” (starring himself as Stage Manager) is returning to Chicago to a…
THEATER REVIEW: "Bud, Not Buddy" by the Chicago Children's Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Bud, Not Buddy" by the Chicago Children's Theatre ★★½ ... If anyone cal…
THEATER REVIEW: "Other Desert Cities" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Other Desert Cities" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★ ... Any writer knows th…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Aliens" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Aliens" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★ ... Annie Baker's sweet and beautiful l…
NEW YORK — Here on W. 47th Street, in a fascinating play about early-onset dementia, or maybe it's brain cancer, or maybe it's just some non-specific traumatic disorder that flowed fro…
A new era began with at the Mercury Theater Sunday afternoon, when the former rental venue in the heart of the Southport Avenue retail strip launched a year-round series of its own home-made…
THEATER REVIEW: "Skylight" (3 stars) through Feb. 10 at Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Ave.; running time: 2 hours, 35 minutes; tickets: $45-$65 at 773-753-4472 or courttheatre.org
Notwithstanding the considerable charms of librarians — named Marian and otherwise — it's the kid who holds the emotional keys to "The Music Man," the masterful Meredith Willson …
In the movie "Flight," for which Denzel Washington scored an Oscar nomination, a brilliant pilot successfully lands a catastrophically damaged plane, saving scores of lives, even though this…
John R. Powers, the author of the made-in-Chicago hit "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" died early Thursday morning. He was 67.
NEW YORK — As Tennessee Williams understood better than almost any other scribe who ever stared down a typewriter, anger and need are not the same thing. In a lousy marriage — su…
When playwright Terence Rattigan's beautiful and long-neglected "Flare Path" was first performed in London in 1942, Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" was all the rage. To many Americans, Coward …
The Broadway stars Kate Baldwin and Bobby Steggart have been added to the previously announced cast of "Big Fish," the new Broadway musical based on the Tim Burton movie. "Big Fish" is sl…
"Side Effects May Include …," the new solo comedy from the "Seinfeld" writer Marc Jaffe and playwright Eric Coble, bills itself as a play about Parkinson's disease. By Act 2, it feels …
When watching "Pygmalion," it's never easy to get "My Fair Lady" our of your head. Alan Jay Lerner took his lyrical ideas right from the George Bernard Shaw verbiage in most instances, which…
A casino is surely coming to Chicago. Sooner rather than later, the lure of so much new revenue flowing into needy city and state coffers, and the prospect of so many badly needed jobs, will…
The long-expected official annnouncement has arrived: "Hit the Wall," the new drama about the Stonewall Riots penned by the young Chicago playwright Ike Holter is headed to the Barrow Street…
The Den Theatre's hit production of Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" announced Thursday that it will extend for two additional weeks through Feb. 3. Many performances of the three-character dram…
Hershey Felder, the piano-playing solo performer with a formidable following in Chicago, is returning to the mainstage of the Royal George Theatre with a new show based not on a classical co…
