4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
If half of the recommendations in the draft of the Chicago Cultural Plan — heck, even 5 percent of the recommendations — were implemented, Chicago would become an artistic nirvan…
THEATER REVIEW: "Nickel History: The Nation of Heat" in the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Nickel History: The Nation of Heat" at Steppenwolf Garage Thea…
How the 'Immortal World Tour' was created and inspired
Beginning Friday at the United Center, the Cirque du Soleil lands in Chicago for two nights with its latest touring production, "Micha…
The Stratford Festival of Canada has announced its 2013 season, its first under new artistic (and former executive) director Antonio Cimolino.
ComedySportz, the popular entertainment franchise that stages improv games within a competitive framework, is holding its world championship in Chicago, beginning Wednesday. According to the…
Few shows at Northwest Indiana's Theatre at the Center — venerable Equity house though it may be — feature a member of the original New York cast, and certainly not a performer w…
Zeljko Djukic, the artistic leader of TUTA Theatre Chicago, is hanging up his decade-long position as artistic director, effective September 1.
Chicago — for obvious reasons — long has welcomed and supported contemporary Irish drama. Most of the writers here embraced, through, have been men. But the gripping, authentic n…
THEATER REVIEW: "The 39 Steps" at the Drury Lane Theatre ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The 39 Steps" at the Drury Lane Theatre ★★½ ... David New's production of this sp…
The city's kids are dying, and something has to be done. The arts have a role.
On Monday night, following a weekend that saw 17 people shot in Chicago and with the memories of the shooting…
Robert Falls will direct William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" as part of the Goodman Theatre's 2012-13 season, the Goodman announced on Wedndesday.
THEATER REVIEW: "A Steady Rain" at Chicago Dramatists ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "A Steady Rain" at Chicago Dramatists ★★★ ... The first time Peter DeFaria and …
Director David Cromer's production of Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" at the Goodman Theatre next season has its star: Diane Lane.
THEATER REVIEW: "Oedipus el Rey" at the Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Oedipus el Rey" at the Victory Gardens Theater ★★★★ ...…
THEATER REVIEW: "Crowns" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Crowns" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★ ... Regina Taylor's "Crowns," a huge hit on the …
THEATER REVIEW: "Beauty and the Beast" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Beauty and the Beast" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★Â…
A model facade of a lovely house — lights burning brightly in the little windows but located, alas, in a dull provincial town — now hangs high over the Steppenwolf Theatre stage.…
When it comes to show business — and all admission-charging cultural attractions are, whether they like to admit it or not, in the business of show — people don't keep coming bac…
Serial killers tend to be loners. Not so John Wayne Gacy, who murdered at least 33 boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Gacy, who lived and killed in Norwood Park, was known as a sociab…
Tawny Newsome, the most interesting new cast member at the Second City e.t.c., is a reminder that trained theater actors, as distinct from those who merely wish to be funny, are (and always …
"The Iceman Cometh" is not going to Broadway, at least not during the upcoming season, the Goodman Theatre concluded Friday.
Jessie Mueller is to be part of the cast of the fall Roundabout Theatre revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," it was announced Thursday in New York.
"Kinky Boots," the new Broadway musical written by Harvey Fierstein with music by Cyndi Lauper, has announced its full cast. The show tries out this fall in Chicago.
Superhuman score drives new musical whose kryptonite can be found in its story
Michael Mahler, the composer and lyricist of the very promising new musical "Hero" at the Marriott Theatre in …
An answer to a long-standing mystery was forthcoming today: What would the organization known as Chicago Muse do with the remaining proceeds from the sale of the Theatre Building Chicago, lo…
