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Tony Award-winning production aptly tells tale of man who used music to stir activism, agitation in good measure in native Nigeria
Deep into "Fela!," when Fela Anikulapo-Kuti stands defiant…
NEW YORK — There is something uniquely appealing, entertainment history reveals, about urban urchins in cloth caps, be they Parisian waifs, London pickpockets or unflaggingly optimisti…
The New York-based actress (and Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member) Kate Arrington is joining the cast of Robert Falls' upcoming Goodman Theatre production of "The Iceman Cometh," the Goodm…
There's nothing even remotely like it in Chicago, with the celebrity chef becoming the spiritual father of these food-driven proceedings
Lubricated by a salty margarita purloined in the lob…
New York is by no means done with Jessie Mueller.
"Freud's Last Session," the hit Off-Broadway play now in commercial residence at the Mercury Theatre, replete with the original New York cast, imagines that a dying and exiled Sigmund Freud …
The Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Southport Ave., officially unveiled further renovations Monday night likely to make the venue yet more attractive to commercial and other producers.
For most of its recent history, Eclipse Theatre Company has been defined by its intimacy. And so has director Lou Contey, who made his reputation long ago at the Shattered Globe's tiny old s…
The Theo Ubique Theatre Company production of "The Light in the Piazza" is adding three more weeks of shows.
Sahr Ngaujah reprises his Broadway role as political and cultural hero of Nigeria
After "Fela!" — the Afrobeat musical based on the life and art of the Nigerian musician and political…
NEW YORK — At the top of the Broadway transfer of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Jesus Christ Superstar,” there's a cl…
American Blues Theatre has announced an intruiguing new season.
Broadway in Chicago said Thursday that "I Love Lucy Live on Stage" will be staged this fall at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, playing from Sept 12 through Nov. 11.
Popularity is a weird thing in the arts. After Yuri Lane, the Chicago-based performance artist and self-styled "human beatbox," placed video clips of his work on YouTube, he quickly scored, …
Lookingglass Theatre ensemble member David Schwimmer will direct a new Chicago-set play by Keith Huff ("A Steady Rain") as part of the 2012-13 season at the Lookingglass Theatre.
Lifeline Theatre will stage a new stage adaptation of "The Woman in White," the 1899 English ghost story by Wilkie Collins that previously became the main source of an Andrew Lloyd Webber mu…
When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were not reigning supreme on the Broadway stages of the 1930s and 1940s, they were reposing at Ten Chimneys, their summer house in Genesee Depot, Wis. The …
THEATER REVIEW: "Hair" at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Hair" at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora ★★★ ... If you had told me a year…
There are plenty of romantic Broadway musicals. But "Once," the gorgeously crafted and intensely moving new show that opened on Broadway on Sunday night after a seamless transition from down…
"Meet my co-chair," William Shatner observed from the stage of Auditorium Theatre Friday night, whereupon a seat on wheels was flung in the general direction of the man who once flew the Sta…
The fracas Friday involving monologuist Mike Daisey and the public radio show "This American Life" is not just the latest scandal of a purported truth teller caught in at least an act of emb…
The radio program “This American Life” and WBEZ 91.5 FM said Friday that they have cancelled the live presentation of Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Stev…
In one of the pivotal scenes in "Death of a Salesman," the great Arthur Miller drama from 1949, Willy Loman, a single-company traveling salesman of some 36 years standing, must beg for his j…
There's a hot new trend that artfully intertwines theater and dining, and its curtain is rising in Chicago
Most Chicago actors do not bring their own Bunsen burners to the rehearsal room. B…
Chicago's Court Theatre has announced its 2012-13 season. Bereft of new work or major reinterpretation, it seems notably less ambitious than in recent years, but will likely please those who…
