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THEATER REVIEW: "Race" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Race" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½ ... There is no shrewder scribe than that ide…
Victory Gardens Theater said Monday that it has hired Geoffrey Jackson Scott as its new director of new play development.
Seeing E. Faye Butler — a Chicago musical-theater diva of the first and most ebullient rank — walk out on stage in prison stripes and headscarf, with a ball and chain around her …
THEATER REVIEW: "Black Pearl Sings" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Black Pearl Sings" at Northlight Theatre in Skokie ★★½ ... Seeing E. F…
The City Lit Theater Company , a long-established Chicago theater company that has been most recently performing in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church, is eyeing a move to Evanston.
The City Lit Theatre Company, a long-established Chicago theater company that has been most recently performing in the Edgewater Presbyterian Church is eyeing a move to Evanston.
Three and a half stars for Court Theatre's bold adaptation of the Ralph Ellison novel
If Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" comes to any conclusions down there in his basement after a lifetime…
THEATER REVIEW: "Invisible Man" at Court Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Invisible Man" at Court Theatre ★★★½ ... If Ralph Ellison's anti-hero comes …
Even though they never really worked for a living and apparently never threw anything away, those pack rats known as the Collyer Brothers of New York City have cut a remarkably broad swath t…
THEATER REVIEW: "Clutter: The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out" at the Greenhouse Theater Center ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Clutter: The True Story of th…
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn was feted in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning for his support of the arts by Americans for the Arts , a nonprofit arts-advocacy group.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn was feted in Washington, D.C., Thursday morning for his support of the arts by Americans for the Arts , a nonprofit arts-advocacy group.
THEATER REVIEW: "Love and Money" at Steep Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Love and Money" at Steep Theatre ★★★½ ... Most of us know someone who has b…
Production deftly traces paths of financial, romantic ruin
Most of us know someone who has been laid off. And many of us are aware of someone else, if not ourselves, who subsequently had t…
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company said Wednesday that its new artistic director, Timothy Douglas, has resigned halfway into his first season.
THEATER REVIEW: "Megacosm" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Megacosm" at A Red Orchid Theatre ★★★ ... "Megacosm" continues this writer's obse…
Neil LaBute is the playwright who keeps on giving to the storefront Chicago company, Profiles Theatre.
The National Endowment for the Arts released on Tuesday the schedule for the Thursday visit to Chicago and Evanston of NEA chairman Rocco Landesman.
The Goodman Theatre production of David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," which transferred to Broadway this fall, will mis-translate its last phrase on Jan. 29. Â
THEATER REVIEW: "Blizzard '67" at Chicago Dramatists ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Blizzard '67" at Chicago Dramatists ★★½ ... Down at Chicago Dramatists last Friday ni…
There's a moment in "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting," the terrific new show at the Lookingglass Theatre, when the caller of the 1947 meeting, Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the …
First adaptation of Ralph Ellison's novel debuts at Court Theatre
Can you do a play about an invisible man? About an African-American whom others simply refuse to see?
For all the controversy that has surrounded Diane Paulus' revisionist Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess," or, as it now is billed, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," the considerable streng…
A little time in Las Vegas, or the symbolic equivalent thereof, is good for all of us, I always say. It worked for Frank Sinatra, who knew to spend a whole lot more time at The Sands than Th…
The 2008 Broadway musical "In the Heights," the story of a mostly Latino community struggling to both move up and stay together, is now in its waning days as a touring attraction. Since the …
