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THEATER REVIEW: "Trainspotting USA" at Theater Wit ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Trainspotting USA" at Theater Wit ★★½ ... So can Sick Boy, Spud, Franco and the other c…
Diana Martinez, the president of The Second City, is leaving the company, the Chicago-based theater and training center said Friday. Martinez had been president since Sept. 2010.
Theater on the Lake, the summer theater operation of the Chicago Park District located at the corner of Fullerton Ave. and Lake Shore Drive, has announced the joint artistic directors for it…
Stephen Colbert is headed to Chicago in support of his old Northwestern University college buddies. The satirist is the headlining host of "Gglassquerade," an annual benefit for the Looki…
THEATER REVIEW: "Kinky Boots" at Bank of America Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Kinky Boots" at Bank of America Theatre in Chicago ★★★½ ... A warm, …
Two of the most accomplished productions in the history of Chicago theater — "Follies" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre — shared top …
NEW YORK — When Craig Wright's offbeat play "Grace" was produced at the Northlight Theatre in Skokie in 2006, the central problem was one that befalls many contemporary dramas seemingl…
In an unusual throwback to how Broadway operated when Edward Albee's booze-soaked George and Martha first prowled the boards in 1962, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's naturalistic, emotiona…
Most of the great books for young children, such as Crockett Johnson's 1955 masterpiece "Harold and the Purple Crayon," are based on the very simplest of ideas. That's why everybody thinks t…
So what if the teenager zapping digital zombies in the bedroom upstairs right now actually went out marauding through your neighborhood with her friends, ready to vaporize, say, the unsuspec…
Sometimes it's better to forget the big name
When the Royal Winnipeg Ballet arrives in Chicago on Nov. 2, it will play at a hall that has been one of Chicago's crown jewels since its constr…
THEATER REVIEW: "Black Watch" by the National Theatre of Scotland ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Black Watch" by the National Theatre of Scotland, hosted by Chicago Shakespea…
THEATER REVIEW: "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" by Bailiwick Chicago Theater ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" by Bailiwick Chicago Theater ★★ ... The…
THEATER REVIEW: "One Name Only" at the Black Ensemble Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "One Name Only" at the Black Ensemble Theatre ★★★ ... Associate directo…
The widely admired Circle Theatre production of the moving Australian drama "When the Rain Stops Falling"Â (penned by Andrew Bovell) is moving from Oak Park to Chicago. John Gawlik's prod…
It is hard to immediately think of a theater piece as tough to watch as Dael Orlandersmith's new solo show "Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men," a relentlessly intense and deeply disturbing charti…
American Theater Company pairs 2 plays about Catholic nuns
American Theater Company could have called its new "Catholic Repertory," a notionally provocative and inspired pairing of John Pat…
THEATER REVIEW: "Making Noise Quietly" at Steep Theatre ★★
Sometimes, journeyman writers enjoy a late-in-life renaissance, and so it has gone in Britain with Yorkshire scribe Ro…
Why it's important that Chicago culture stays in Manhattan's spotlight
— Wandering through the darkened auditorium of Broadway's Cort Theatre here on a recent Saturday morning felt a …
The Hypocrites production of Sean Graney's adaptation of "The Pirates of Penzance" has landed on the mainstage of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass.
"Perhaps if you had remained still," says George, the distracted artist, to the woman he loves, currently on the way out the door for good, having settled for a lesser man. "Perhaps," she sa…
Jerry Mitchell, currently in Chicago directing the out-of-town tryout of the musical "Kinky Boots," is the winner of the 2013 "Mr. Abbott Award," an honor named after the late George Abbott …
THEATER REVIEW: "Hoodoo Love" by The Collective Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Hoodoo Love" by The Collective Theatre ★★★½ ... Company co-founder Ne…
The Music Theatre Company of Highland Park will stage a full production of the musical "The Pajama Game" next spring. Jess McLeod will direct, with choreography by Jessica Redich.
4 stars for reprisal of Mary Zimmerman's signature work
THEATER REVIEW: 'Metamorphoses' 4 stars; through Nov. 18 at Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave.; 1 hour, 30 minutes; $36-$7…
