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When the Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced its production of "The Motherf***er with the Hat," it sure sounded very much like a reprise of the 2011 Broadway production. The director, ense…
The Off-Broadway play 'Freud's Last Session,' imagining the men conversing, comes to Los Angeles in hopes of getting more theatergoers to join the chat.
The Off-Broadway play 'Freud's Last Session,' imagining the men conversing, comes to Los Angeles in hopes of getting more theatergoers to join the chat."If the whole universe had no meaning,…
With Scrooge back under wraps, it's time for the 2013 winter theater season to begin in earnest. There's an especially strong slate of classical works opening between now and the end of Marc…
New biography sheds light on Thornton Wilder, the influence of his childhood and his love of Chicago
striver Amos Parker Wilder, had a sophisticated and peripatetic, if perennially impecuni…
For Chicago stage director Rachel Rockwell, 2012 began with the brood of Capt. von Trapp and ended with the little orphan girls of "Annie."
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Glass Menagerie' 4 stars; through Jan. 20 at Mary-Arrchie Theatre, 735 W. Sheridan Road; running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes; tickets: $15-$25 at 773-871-0442 or maryarrch…
It's tough to go wrong with "Oliver" at the holidays. You've got tousled-haired urchins, pathos, Fagin, melodrama and power ballads — orchestrated with a whiff of the sounds of Dusty S…
Trio's own history adds to reflective performances
The last time the trio of Si Osborne, Lia D. Mortensen and Brad Armacost performed Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" in Chicago, they all were …
"The Book of Mormon" pulled down a whopping $1,493,961 in its first full week of sold-out performances at the Bank of America Theatre, breaking the house record for that Loop venue.
THEATER REVIEW: "The Book of Mormon" at the Bank of America Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Book of Mormon" at the Bank of America Theatre ★★★ …
THEATER REVIEW: "War Horse" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "War Horse" at the Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★★★ ... Joey, the…
"Big Fish," the Broadway musical (book by John August and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa) based on the fantastical Tim Burton movie, has announced the dates for its pre-New York engagement…
Kristin Larsen, the longtime executive director of the non-profit Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, has resigned her position at the small Equity company, which produces at the Greenhouse Theatre…
Silvio Marchetti, who has silver hair and a dry sense of humor most atypical for an attache, tells a story about meeting the late Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, in the mid-1980s. March…
Holiday chestnut has a refreshingly contemporary feel
At one point in the touring version of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, a show that prides itself on a legacy that dates back to t…
The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn.
Profiles Theatre is to stage the world premiere of Neil LaBute's brand new stage version of the movie "In the Company of Men." The new work is based on his screenplay for the 1997 movie.
"Fela!," the Broadway musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti, is returning to Chicago for a week in February. Yet more surprisingly, the Arie Crown Theater, which has been on ice…
'Tis the season for sucking up at company holiday parties — or, as Frank, the central character in David Ives' "The School for Lies" would put it, this is prime time, baby, for "two-fa…
Syesha Mercado, a finalist on the "American Idol" talent show, has taken over the featured role of Nabulungi in the Chicago production of "The Book of Mormon," representatives of the show ha…
Team Starkid, the hugely popular performance company known for its internet-based musical parodies and for its popular live tours, is to produce a new prime-time show at Chicago's Second Cit…
While most of her friends at Highland Park High School were still thinking of where they were going to study, Elana Ernst Silverstein already was booking the national tour of one of Broadway…
The much-anticipated Chicago company of the hit Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon" has its first preview performance tonight at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St.
NEW YORK— Early in "Glengarry Glen Ross," as David Mamet brilliantly employs the scene-blackout-scene rhythm he learned sweeping floors at Chicago's Second City cabaret, Shelly can't-c…
