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Sean Graney, the founding artistic director of The Hypocrites, will leave his post at the end of the current season, making way for ensemble member Halena Kays. Kays will take over the Off-L…
THEATER REVIEW: "As You Like It" ★★★½ Through March 6 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Courtyard Theater on Navy Pier; Running time: 2 hours, 45 minutes; Tickets: $44-$75…
The Broadway opening of "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" has, unbelievably, been postponed yet again. The new opening date has been set for Tues Mar. 15. Prior to Thursday, critics were slated…
Dates have been released for the previously reported Chicago engagement of "Dixie's Tupperware Party,' the new comedic attraction headed to the cabaret space at the Royal George Theatre. The…
Monologist Spalding Gray is the subject of "And Everything Is Going Fine," to be screened 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Goodman's Owen Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St.; $12, 312-443-3800 and www.good…
Whoopi Goldberg is headed to the Chicago area on Feb. 11 to make a one-night-only appearance billed as a celebration of Black History Month. She's coming to the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, …
THEATER REVIEW: "Delusion" at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. at Millennium Park Laurie Anderson " who, at 63, has morphed into a kind of elfin Uriah Heep " is th…
1964 ~ 2011 Mary Scruggs, the head of writing and education programs for The Second City Training Center, died at her home late Tuesday night, said Kelly Leonard, the executive vice presiden…
"Tomorrow Morning" starred Emily Thompson and Michael Mahler in a production at the Greenhouse Theater Center. Read the Nov. 2008 review. The relationship musical "Tomorrow Morning," which h…
Steppenwolf ensemble members Kate Arrington, Laurie Metcalf, Ian Barford and Kevin Anderson in the theater's production of "Detroit" last fall. ' In Lisa D'Amour's "Detroit," uneasiness in t…
Jon Michael Hill, the young Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member who starred in "Superior Donuts" on Broadway and currently appears in ABC's "Detroit 1-8-7," has joined the cast of St…
THEATER REVIEW: Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival is through Sunday at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.; Tickets: Prices and showtimes vary; go to www.stage773.com. Reviews by Chris Jones and Ni…
There are playwrights who just write plays"maybe half a dozen over the course of a decade. And then there is Neil LaBute, an astonishingly prolific writer who not only writes major plays ("T…
THEATER REVIEW: "Spamalot," Four Stars, Drury Lane Theatre, Oakbrook Terrace. When Eric Idle, the creator of "Monty Python's Spamalot," showed up in Oakbrook Terrace …
Former "Saturday Night Live" performer Nora Dunn is back in Chicago and has a new live show " "Mythical Proportions" runs Thursdays in January at the iO Theater. Read her interview here with…
Linda Reiter is Mag and Eileen Niccolai is Maureen in Shattered Globe Theatre's production of Martin McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane." In previews Jan. 13-15 and running through Feb.…
Before the holidays, Playwrights Horizons announced its intent to commission a new musical version of the 2002 movie "Far From Heaven," a noir piece about 1950s suburbia that was directed by…
The national touring production of "Wicked" took in $1,726,476 at the box-office in Chicago, during the week ending Dec. 26. That's the biggest ever weekly haul for a theatrical production i…
Nina Metz and Kerry Reid write the "ON THE FRINGE" column every Friday in the Tribune, reviewing shows from Chicago's off-Loop theater scene. This is their column looking ahead to the new ye…
(Posted by Doug George) ... Or nearly so. This New Year's Eve weekend reportedly is shaping up to be a banner weekend for Chicago-area theaters. Thursday night is widely sold out, said Deb C…
"The Scottsboro Boys," recently at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, should be in Chicago. It's time for resolutions. And so " because I prefer to suggest them for others rather than make them…
The second half Chicago theater season in uncompromising in its willingness to probe the darker reaches of the human experience. There are certainly some escapist titles " "Guys and Dolls" a…
It was a year of scandal and rejuvenation, loss and celebration, recessionary cuts, and, incredibly enough, new theaters built in the teeth of the recession. Here's a brief look back at some…
The writer-performer John Leguizamo is to perform his latest solo show "Ghetto Klown" at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago from Feb. 1-12, immediately prior to its Broadway engagement at t…
A new production of the Brett Neveu thriller "The Earl" is returning to Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre, starring Danny Goldring. The show, presented by a new group called The Inconvenience, …
