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The British stage-and-screen actor Simon Callow will appear at the Broadway Playhouse in the spring, it was announced Tuesday evening.
"Smash,"the mid-season NBC replacement TV show that deals with the process of creating a new Broadway musical, had what the producers said was the first screening of its pilot episode bef…
Matt Damon will headline a benefit performance of dramatic readings at the Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., on Jan. 31. The Hollywood actor will be joined by the Steppenwolf Theatre's Robert …
The Off-Broadway hit "Freud's Last Session" is headed to Chicago this spring with its original New York cast attached.
You don't hear so much these days about Dolly the Sheep, but when Caryl Churchill's "A Number" was first performed in 2002 (starring Daniel Craig, actually), cloning was a hotly debated issu…
The Ravina Festival is to announce Thursday night that Idina Menzel, the original star of "Wicked" and also now known for her work on "Glee," will make her first appearance at the Highland P…
From outrageous European directors to Chicagoans whose work we've come to trust over the long haul, the winter theater season in Chicago offers a variety of attractions, including a notable …
"The Addams Family" is not the first musical whose first national tour has been infinitely better than the Broadway production that gave it birth: such past shows as “Big” and …
Three stars for beautifully sung version of Lucy Simon's work
It has now been 20 years since Lucy Simon's gorgeous score for "The Secret Garden" — which you can hear beautifully sung …
THEATER REVIEW: Victoria Zielinski and Paul Barrosse in "The Vic & Paul Show" ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: Victoria Zielinski and Paul Barrosse in "The Vic & Paul Show" at the Mayn…
It has been several years since an actor was our Chicagoan of the year in theater — and even longer since the honor went to someone just 28 years old. But then Jessie Mueller is not an…
In the real world, about 30 years separates the two stars of the current touring production of "La Cage Aux Folles," the first national outing, so to speak, of Terry Johnson's formidably di…
David Rosenberg, the longtime publicist for the Steppenwolf Theatre, said Wednesday that he's leaving the theater in coming weeks.
The Chicago Park District's Theatre on the Lake announced Tuesday that its popular summer program has two new "artistic creators" in Michael Patrick Thornton and Meghan Beals McCarthy.
How a superstar team lost its way in Chicago and New York, and now hope the third time is a charm
NEW YORK — It's pushing midnight at Angus McIndoe, a Broadway watering hole. Marshal…
How a superstar team lost its way in Chicago and New York, and now hope the third time is a charm
NEW YORK — It's pushing midnight at Angus McIndoe, a Broadway watering hole. Marshall…
The Emerald City Theatre Company production of "Pinkalicious: The Musical" is doing good business at Broadway in Chicago's Broadway Playhouse, albeit with a small number of daytime shows.
Actor and funnyman Stephen Colbert showed up with family members Friday night in the audience for "The Santaland Diaries," a Theatre Wit spokesman said Saturday. The show, a long-running sea…
The infamous stage mother will be played by Klea Blackhurst, known for her albums and concert performances and also for the well-received Ethel Merman tribute, "Everything That Traffic Will …
Toward the end of "A Christmas Story, The Musical" you hear a small catch in the throat of the fine actor Gene Weygandt, who plays Jean Shepherd, the raconteur who gave the American Christma…
NEW YORK - In Aristophanes' Greek comedy "Lysistrata" — part of the Athens season of 411 B.C. — the war-weary women of Greece decide to deny their husbands and lovers sexual fav…
Gift Theatre will stage a new play by Andrew Hinderaker in its 2012 season, the theater announced Wednesday. Entitled "Dirty" and opening in September, the play looks at an investment ban…
As part of a broader package of tax benefits aimed at helping businesses in Illinois, incentives for long-running Broadway shows passed the Illinois Senate today and on their way to the desk…
THEATER REVIEW: "It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" at American Theater Company ★★★
THEATER REVIEW: "It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play" at American Theater Company…
THEATER REVIEW: "Penelope" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "Penelope" at Steppenwolf Theatre ★★★½ ... Romantic hopes spring eternal in …
