Disappearing Broadway investments prove, especially this season, that there is still no formula for commercial success in the entertainment business, but the wicked track record of the prequ…
Robert Falls and Brian Dennehy, with a twist of Nathan Lane, take on O'Neill with 'more of a sense of mortality' In October 1990, a 36-year-old named Robert Falls was six years into his ten…
Theatre Seven of Chicago is the 2012 recipient of the Broadway in Chicago "Emerging Theater Award."Â
NEW YORK — Raul Esparza, the handsome and admirably complex star of the new screen-to-stage musical "Leap of Faith," is the guy you want in your show when your leading character is hav…
The Goodman Theatre said Wednesday that Deanna Dunagan will appear in the role of Polly in the upcoming production of "Other Desert Cities," slated for January of next year.
It's not hard to see why John Lithgow was attracted to the role of Joseph Alsop, portraying a syndicated newspaper columnist whose incomparable influence lasted for some four decades. John L…
The Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre remains a favorite of the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, which released its nominations Wednesday for the 2012 Jeff Awards for theaters that are not affil…
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. — Given the well-grounded corporate nervousness of those in the leisure industry about being associated with any particular religious belief, it's unusual to approa…
It most certainly is "Nice Work If You Can Get It," but the new Broadway musical starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara is otherwise tough to define. It's not really a jukebox musical, …
Producers from the Barrow Street Theatre in New York were in Chicago for the closing days of Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall," the hit production about the Stonewall riots staged in the Steppenwo…
Conan O'Brien, the TV host and comedian, announced on his comedy show on the TBS cable network Monday night that he is coming to Chicago in June.
BROADWAY REVIEW: "Ghost" at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York ... At one moment in this cold, over-produced new musical from London, Molly suddenly senses that maybe, just maybe, her lov…
THEATER REVIEW: "In a Forest, Dark and Deep" at Profiles Theatre ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "In a Forest, Dark and Deep" at Profiles Theatre ★★½ ... When two characte…
Profiles Theatre, the long-standing non-Equity theater on Chicago's North Side, has affiliated itself with the actors' union. The new Equity status coincides with the company's expansion int…
"Me and the DuBois have different notions," says Blair Underwood's uncommonly desirable Stanley in director Emily Mann's accessible, enjoyable and — on occasion — revealing new B…
Brian Dennehy missed the first Saturday night and Sunday afternoon preview performances of "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre.
THEATER REVIEW: "Hairpsray" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★ THEATER REVIEW: "Hairpsray" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★ ... I…
Formidable actor stars in overly pat show Had Simon Callow arrived in lawless Chicago a century or more ago, like one of those famous traveling British Shakespeareans of yore, proudly pros…
THEATER REVIEW: "Who Do We Think We Are?" at Second City ★★★½ Of the previous 99 mainstage revues at the Second City, almost all have offered the audience a chance to s…
Chicago Dramatists, the venerable, 33-year-old Chicago institution known for its support of new plays, has announced its 2012-13 season of three world premieres.
Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I've watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers…
"Cirque Shanghai," the long-running attraction on Navy Pier, will be back once again this summer. Shows begin May 24 at the Skyline Stage, which (given the plans to improve the pier) is not …
THEATER REVIEW: "The March" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★ THEATER REVIEW: "The March" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★ ... In Frank Galati's rich adaptation of E.…
Chicago is to have a big new entertainment venue this summer — a 70-foot-tall, 22,000-square-foot tent that will seat as many as 2,500 patrons who will be served up a variety of populi…
Acting distinguishes otherwise distant production of Kushner masterpiece Like so many of us, Prior Walter, the central character in Tony Kushner's epic, two-part, seven-hour masterpiece "An…