4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
One hundred and thirty-two years after W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan dreamed up a preposterous operetta involving a very modern major-general, his bevy of beautiful, naive daughters and a…
How did Frank Galati adapt E.L. Doctorow's novel about an almost unimaginable Civil War event? He took years, went big and kept it personal
How did Frank Galati adapt E.L. Doctorow's novel …
THEATER REVIEW: "Motherhood the Musical" at the Royal George Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Motherhood the Musical" at the Royal George Theatre ★★ ... "Is it going to h…
Mike Nussbaum, the indefatigable, 88-year-old dean of Chicago actors, is to take over the huge role of Sigmund Freud in "Freud's Last Session."
"Doyle and Debbie," the country-music spoof at the Royal George Theatre Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted St., is closing on May 27.
The Studio Theatre inWashington, D.C. and the Huntington Theatre in Boston have announced that they both will be staging "The Invisible Man" during the 2012-13 season.
Reprised musical about Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons still tops the charts
You may feel like they never went away, but the lively young blue-collar gentlemen of the Garden State, ever …
"Those people could be my neighbors," I heard one woman remark at the conclusion of "After the Revolution," the current production at the Next Theatre in Evanston. Actually, Amy Herzog's imp…
Andrea Martin is headed to Second City's UP comedy club with her semi-autobiographical show, "Final Days! Everything Must GO!."Â
THEATER REVIEW: "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915" at the V…
The 2012 TBS Just for Laughs Comedy Festival has announced many of its headliners for the upcoming June fete of the funny in Chicago.
Team StarKid , the remarkably popular Chicago-based theater company known for its Internet-based musical parodies, is embarking on a second national tour.
Phylicia Rashad has signed on to direct a play called "Immediate Family," in a new commercial production to be staged this summer in rented space at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
Lili-Anne Brown is taking over as artistic director at Bailiwick Chicago, the small, itinerent Chicago theater company formed out of what was the Bailiwick Arts Center in the Lakeview nei…
Next Theatre of Evanston has announced its 2012-13 season. The slate, the theater company's 32nd, will begin in the fall with "Iphigenia 2.0" by Charles Mee, directed by David Kersnar.
"The Hunchback Variations," the two-person Theatre Oobleck production starring George Andrew Wolff and Larry Adams, is headed Off-Broadway to the 59E59 Theatre (59 E. 59th St.) in New York. …
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art said Wednesday that it has received a $10 million gift from retired Apollo Plastics Corp. executive Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, both longtime supporter…
In case it wasn't clear by now, it's a new era at the Victory Gardens Theater. On Wednesday morning, artistic director Chay Yew announced a new slate of ensemble playwrights.
THEATER REVIEW: "Chesapeake" by Remy Bumppo Theatre Company at the Greenhouse Theater Center ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Chesapeake" by Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center &…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Last Duck" by Jackalope Theatre Company at the Viaduct Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "The Last Duck" by Jackalope Theatre Company at the Viaduct Theatre…
You never know where David Cromer is going to pop up.
Northlight Theatre said Monday that the unannounced fifth show of its 2012-13 season will be a new play by Bruce Graham, the author of "The Outgoing Tide," a previously successful Northlight…
Despite the modest surroundings of the Karger Center in Highland Park, Jessica Redish, the founding artistic director of the Music Theatre Company, is doing a lot to fill the North Shore gap…
An adult-oriented puppet show called "Stuffed and Unstrung" is headed this June to the Bank of America Theatre, Broadway in Chicago anounced Monday.
Polish ensemble's wrenching theater not for fainthearted
Some artists feel the thrill of the zeitgeist, the pull of the technological moment. Others, like the remarkable Teatr Zar of Poland…
