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City Lit, the long-standing company that specializies in literary adaptations, has announced its 2012-13 season.
Broadway in Chicago's annual concert hyping its upcoming shows has a headliner this year of note: Cyndi Lauper.
First Folio Thaetre, the Equity company based in Oak Brook, has announced its 2012-13 season.
Broadway in Chicago said Monoday that it has booked the new touring productions of "Priscilla Queen of the Deert" and "Catch Me If You Can" as part of its 2012-13 season.
The venerable Off-Loop operation known as a the Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company has announced its 27th season.
The House Theatre of Chicago , in residence at the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park, will kick off its 2012-13 season with "The Iron Stag King: part one," the beginning of a new trilogy by Chri…
No other play before Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park"has won the Tony Award for best play, the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Olivier Award (the British equivalent of the Tony Awards) for be…
Jam Theatricals has announced a new date for its Kristin Chenoweth concert, canceled at the eleventh hour Saturday, due to the star's illness.
If you find yourself pulled out of the audience at a comedy show and dragged up on stage like a performing seal, the most you can generally expect is flop sweat, a T-shirt and a Polaroid. No…
THEATER REVIEW: "Floyd Collins" by Boho Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Floyd Collins" by Boho Theatre ★★ ... The potent Adam Guettel and Tina Landau musical "Floyd Coll…
The loss of some 1,500 souls when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912 has been memorialized, if that's the right word, with a century of narrative re-creation, a hit movie, countless documentaries,…
Sarah Silverman, you're such a scold.
The Broadway and TV star Kristin Chenoweth has canncelled her concert scheduled for Saturday night at the Cadillac Place Theatre in downtown Chicago.
Chicago's Profiles Theatre Company says it has changed the first show of its upcoming season. In place of the previously announced "Blood From a Stone" by Tommy Nohilly, Profiles now will st…
If I were to say this was a review of a Jule Styne revue at a shoebox-sized cabaret space in Rogers Park, you might well be picturing a little clutch of cute, smiling, cruise ship-like perfo…
THEATER REVIEW: "Stuffed and Unstrung" at the Bank of America Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Stuffed and Unstrung" at the Bank of America Theatre ★★★ ... Y…
THEATER REVIEW: "State Street" at City Lit ★★
It's hardly news that small Chicago theaters rarely are daunted by big projects, but the latest endeavor at City Lit is as notewor…
So how was your first time?
THEATER REVIEW: "Exit, Pursued by a Bear" by Theatre Seven of Chicago ★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Exit, Pursued by a Bear" by Theatre Seven of Chicago ★½ ... There's a long and no…
Taking a leaf from the early days of Joseph Papp in New York and endeavoring to increase its own accessibility, Chicago Shakespeare Theater says it plans to tour its "Short Shakespeare" prod…
Scott Rudin, who long has held the Broadway rights to Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," will not produce the hit Goodman Theatre production on Broadway, Rudin's office confirmed Monday.
THEATER REVIEW: "Immediate Family" in the Goodman's Owen Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Immediate Family" in the Goodman's Owen Theatre ★★★ ... You do not …
Broadway fell fast for "Once," the melancholy but moving movie-to-musical about a lovelorn Irish street musician and his Czech guardian angel, which scooped Disney's chirpier "Newsies: The M…
Well, you gotta laugh, right? This year's TBS Just for Laughs Chicago festival contains many shows that claim to offer you a plethora of giggles for your hard-earned buck. But this festival …
Second City is producing a new Christmas-themed show in Los Angeles, the Center Theatre Group announced Thursday.
