When I first reviewed Mary Zimmerman's "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" " gulp, some 19 years ago " it felt like witnessing a Chicago theater revolution.
While the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire's production of "West Side Story" is not heavy on concept or the unexpected, some may still live, feel and believe it.
The work homes in on the homosexuality of silent film stars Ramon Novarro and William Haines and argues that once Hollywood adopted the Hays Production Code in 1930, their careers were esse…
An unstinting performer dedicated to truth on stage, Thebus had many performances; she continued to work in the Chicago theater well into her 80s.
Fans of Felicia P. Fields can well imagine the fun the Chicago star has with lyrics like "You always ready every time that I call / What I like about you, you never stall."
If Hugh Jackman can't be sexy in The Music Man, we all should worry.
Deb Clapp, the executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres for the past 14 years, is leaving her position, effective at the end of June.
The Paramount has excellent timing. Just as that woodchuck known as Punxsutawney Phil was emerging in Pennsylvania, the theater was readying the first local production of the Broadway musica…
A fresh father-son drama by travis tate reopens Victory Gardens Theater at last.
Productions like the Drury Lane's full-throttle "Evita" still feel to me like a small miracle in these lingering days of COVID-19.
The main characters in Donja R. Love's play "Fireflies" are called Charles and Olivia. They're thinly veiled versions of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta.
Smart, challenging and deeply moving toward its close, "Relentless" is fully the equal of many of the serious dramas that populated Broadway this past fall.
The show is genuinely beautiful to experience throughout, which one almost never can say about jukebox musicals.
Chicago's Lyric Opera has announced its 2022-23 season, an extensive calendar with world premieres and classics.
August Wilson was America's William Shakespeare " surely we all can see this by now " and his play "Gem of the Ocean," now in rich revival at the Goodman Theatre, was his version of "Macbeth…
If any journalist could be said to have lit the spark for an artistic movement, that scribe was Richard Christiansen, longtime chief critic at the Chicago Tribune.
A musical parody of "The Bachelor" brings some fun to the Apollo Theater in Chicago, with a local cast and clever songs.
Has one of the great theater cities on the planet just suffered the kind of blow that may require a recovery time of years?
Along with "Mary Rose" by Black Button Eyes Productions, choose between two interesting, gothic shows now playing in Chicago.
Daniel Fish discusses the "Oklahoma!" musical now on tour: "I see everything I do as a new work. You are doing the show on a contemporary night."
Director Daniel Fish's radical 2018 Broadway revival arrives in our town at a tough moment for traumatic endings. Fair warning.
I'd say that "8-Track" probably delivered as much sustenance to the audience as any production in this company's history, at least based on what I saw happen to people's faces.
Ullah, who is now 53 years old, was one of the first South Asian American comics to get what you might call national recognition.
The Goodman Theatre said Wednesday that it is postponing its planned world-premiere production of "The Outsiders."
With fingers crossed and hope soaring, here are 10 exciting winter theatrical attractions, from the "Come From Away" tour to "King James" at Steppenwolf.