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It's time, dear reader, to raise a glass to Mick Napier, improv queen Susan Messing, wild Joe Bill, hard-toiling Jennifer Estlin, restless Mark Sutton and the Annoyance Theatre, which have, …
Ricardo Gutierrez, a longtime actor and director in Chicago, is to take over as artistic director of Teatro Vista, one of Chicago's leading Latino theater companies, in March.
Bailiwick Chicago, Buzz22 Chicago and Theatre Seven of Chicago will have all shows in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's annual Garage Rep Rep repertory series, slated to begin in February.
The Chicago production of Mark St. Germain's "Freud's Last Session," which had been expected to close at the end of the summer, is to play through Nov. 11 at the Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Sou…
Jason Daniely, who appeared on Broadway in "Candide," "Curtains" and as a replacement cast member in "Next to Normal," will star in Gary Griffin's upcoming Chicago Shakespeare Theater produc…
STRATFORD, ONTARIO — It's not easy for the
Savvy longtime stars like Cathy Rigby know how to confront perception problems head-on. After belting out a number from "Peter Pan" for the umpteenth time, the diminutive celebrity didn't ex…
Barbra Streisand will play the United Center in Chicago on Oct. 26.
Marvin Hamlisch, the composer of"A Chorus Line," died Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 68, the Associated Press has reported. The news agency referenced a brief illness but gave no detai…
— Of all of William Shakespeare's plays, "Henry V" is the drama most often interpreted as patriotically British. In the 1944 film version, Laurence Olivier used the young king's inspir…
STRATFORD, Ontario — At the age of 82 and with his acting chops and handsome looks singularly unscathed, Christopher Plummer has earned the right to talk of death. If a man can fight b…
As jobs move to the city from the suburbs, arts funding needs to remain a regional priority
In the years leading up to Millennium Park's completion in 2004, philanthropist John Bryan led fu…
The Milwuaukee Repertory Theatre announced Thursday that it has created a new large group of more losely affiliated associate artists, essentially replacements for what was one of the last r…
THEATER REVIEW: "Richard III," "Twelfth Night" and "Skylight" at American Players Theatre
The famously stoic patrons at the American Players Theatre, where Shakespeare plays al fresco, are …
THEATER REVIEW: "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare in the Parks ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare in the Parks ★★ ... Here is a Shake…
A hit Harry Potter parody written and performed by two former BBCÂ TV hosts, is coming to Chicago.
At United Center, awesome creatures but show a bit shy on humanity
The massive, high-concept new arena attraction known — more for marketing than artistic purposes — as "How to…
You should brace yourself for the Joe Paterno Story. Hollywood is quiet now, if not so much in deference to the convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky's victims as to the fear of being perceived…
A commercial show — with Broadway aspirations — inspired by the life and work of the late comedian Richard Pryor is to be staged this fall at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago,…
The famed John Singer Sargent portrait of the actor Joseph Jefferson III, currently owned by the financially strapped Players Club of New York, is on the block, New York Post columnist Micha…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dumb Waiter" by TUTA Theatre Chicago ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Dumb Waiter" by TUTA Theatre Chicago ★★★ ... At the appointed moment, …
The glory days of the resorts in the Catskills are familiar objects of "Dirty Dancing" nostalgia and totems of a vanished mode of leisure with a proud showbiz tradition. But there is no shre…
The off-Broadway venue known as the 59E59 Theaters in New York has announced several shows this fall with origins in Chicago.
Beauty of erotically charged circus is far more than skin-deep
New York has a spiegeltent , pitched in Times Square. Las Vegas has both "Absinthe" and "Zumanity," each Strip show offering a…
THEATER REVIEW: "Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour"
THEATER REVIEW: "Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour" by Cirque du Soleil at the United Center in Chicago.
