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Anna Deavere Smith has, in essence, combined a career doing serious, interview-based theater work like "Fires in the Mirror" and "Twilight: Los Angles" with more lucrative acting gigs on TV …
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whole World is Watching" by the Dog & Pony Theatre Company at the Biograph ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Whole World is Watching" by the Dog & Pony Theatre Compan…
At its 25th summit in Chicago this weekend, NATO will be preoccupied with the tricky business of how to advance its various institutional priorities — like global security and the buil…
The Goodman Theatre said Thursday that it will stage "Smokefall," a new play by Noah Haidle ("Vigils," "Mr. Marmalade")Â as part of its 2013-14 season. Anne Kauffman is scheduled to direct…
Last year, Chicago's American Theater Company staged the original "Grease." In 2013, artistic director PJ Paparelli has his sights set on the original Off-Broadway version of the iconic hipp…
The comic Sarah Silverman has been added to the line-up of the TBS Just for Laughs Festival. Silverman will present (in person) an evening of her "favorite comedians" at the Chicago Theatre …
"Bring it On: The Musical," the cheerleader musical that played Chicago earlier this year, is headed to Broadway, its producers, Fox Theatricals, announced Wednesday morning.
Before there was the rapidly atrophying NBC sitcom "Smash," there was "[Title of Show]," a cleverly metadramatic little show by Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen , wherein a couple of young guys tr…
"I'm gonna try out some material," Andrea Martin said Friday night at Second City's UP Comedy Club. "None of it is new," she quickly added, as if in horror at the very thought of such a thin…
"My Kind of Town," the fine new play by John Conroy with the titular nod to Frank Sinatra, begins with a faux promotional video about the beauties of Chicago, circa 1990. Narrated by the Tri…
Desiree, the Scandinavian actress at the heart of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's "A Little Night Music" and the character who delivers the famously cynical number "Send in the Clowns," …
50-year stage veteran Mike Nussbaum shines in 2-man drama
"Freud's Last Session" is no "King Lear." And there is nothing in the air to suggest that Mike Nussbaum is slowing down his busy sl…
THEATER REVIEW: "Hostage Song" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Hostage Song" by Signal Ensemble Theatre ★★★ ... I don't think I've ever s…
New York's Lincoln Center has announced it will stage the Ayad Akhtar play "Disgraced" in October as part of its LCT3 program.
The TBS Just for Laughs Comedy Festival released on Wednesday the names of more contracted performers at the Chicago comedy festival.
THEATER REVIEW: "Kin" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Kin" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½ ... Few plays are as tricky to stage as…
THEATER REVIEW: "Rent" at American Theater Company ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Rent" at American Theater Company ★★ ... There are revelations in David Cromer's intensely tex…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Jamaica, Farewell' by Chopin Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'Jamaica, Farewell' by Chopin Theatre ★★★ ... "Jamaica, Farewell," which has ar…
THEATER REVIEW: "A Brown Bear, A Moon and A Caterpillar: Treasured Stories by Eric Carle" by Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia at Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre, presented by the Chicago Chil…
THEATER REVIEW: tick, tick...BOOM! by Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773 ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: tick, tick...BOOM! by Porchlight Music Theatre at Stage 773 ★★&…
THEATER REVIEW: "Timon of Athens" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Timon of Athens" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★½ ... Few realizations …
THEATER REVIEW: "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ ... They don't talk…
THEATER REVIEW: "Tigers Be Still" at Theater Wit ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Tigers Be Still" at Theater Wit ★★★ ... The mother and two grown daughters at the h…
With the aptly named "Leap of Faith" unexpectedly snagging the contested fourth spot, the musicals "Once," "Newsies" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It" scored all-important 2012 Tony Award no…
On the stage of the Steep Theatre, designer Stephen Harold Carmody has re-created an everyday office: you see rows of files, a nice reception desk, inspirational art on the walls celebrating…
