"A Streetcar Named Desire" was director David Cromer's poetic, primal production at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, and No. 1 on my list of best shows of 2010. With best-of-the-year lists, it's…
Second City Theatricals opened its revue "A Girl's Guide to Washington Politics" at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D. C. on Thursday night. It's part of the Chicago-based Second C…
THEATER REVIEW: "Cash" ★★ Through Dec. 19 by XIII Pocket at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.; Running time: 1 hour; Tickets: $22 at 773-327-5252 or www.thirteenpocket.com Stephen …
The building housing the 440-seat Apollo Theatre, located at 2518-40 N. Lincoln Ave., will be sold to the highest bidder at a public auction on Jan. 18. The foreclosure sale, which includes …
The Lyric Opera of Chicago announced this afternoon that the renowned opera singer Renee Fleming will become a "creative consultant" to the company, and also that Lyric plans expanded collab…
"Irving Berlin's White Christmas" is new to Chicago, playing through Jan. 2 at the Bank of America Theatre; contact www.broadwayinchicago.com. ' HOLIDAY GUIDE: Making a list of our top-10 mo…
Former Saturday Night Light cast member Nora Dunn is to preview various parts of her new solo show "Mythic Proportions" at the iO comedy theater located at 3541 N. Clark St., artistic direct…
Pegasus Players, a longstanding Chicago theater which has been moribund (and feared for dead) for the last several months, is to relocate to the Beacon Street Theatre in Uptown in a new part…
Kathleen Purcell Turner and Pierre Clark in "The Nativity" by Congo Square Theatre Company at the Goodman Theatre. THEATER REVIEW: "The Nativity" ★★★ Through Dec. 31 by Con…
Deadline Hollywood reports that Oprah Winfrey is to return to acting in an adaptation of Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" for HBO films. "Ruined," which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, premiered at (and…
Playwright Rebecca Gilman is joining the Goodman Theatre's artistic collective, the loose ensemble of artists who are considered the Goodman's home team, the Chicago theater announced Monday…
THEATER REVIEW: "Alien Queen" ★★½ Through Dec. 18 at Circuit Nightclub, 3641 N. Halsted St.; Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: $15-$25 at 800-838-3006 or www.bigtopjo…
THEATER REVIEW: "Local Wonders" ★★½ Through Jan. 9 at Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago Ave. $25-30 at 630-457-1074 or www.localwondersmusical.com. The good people of the Gr…
THEATER REVIEW: "Wicked" ★★★★ Through Nov. 27 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph St.; $25-$97 at www.broadwayinchicago.com Five or ten minutes into "Wick…
THEATER REVIEW: "Christmas Smackdown" ★★★ Through Dec. 22 in the Del Close Theater at i.O., 3541 N. Clark St.; Running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes; Tickets: $14 at 773-880-019…
Jennifer Jason Leigh will join the previously announced Ben Stiller and Edie Falco in David Cromer's Hollywood star-laden, upcoming Broadway production of John Guare's "The House of Blue Lea…
According to a report Thursday night on ABC-7 in Chicago, an actor named David Bertucci, 41, was found beaten Sunday morning outside a Chicago nightclub. Reporter Cheryl Burton said that Ber…
The illustrious Broadway choreographer Ann Reinking is headed to Chicago early next year to co-create a new Chiacgo-centric work for Thodos Dance Chicago. Entitled "The White City: Chicago's…
The Goodman Theatre has announced the plays that will be part of its 2011 New Stages project. Semi-staged, script-in-hand perforamances will be open to the public on the weekends of Jan. 14 …
The touring production of "Wicked" is at the Cadillac Palace Theatre through Jan. 23. If you are headed to "Wicked" at some point over the next few weeks, and if you can fight your way past …
THEATER REVIEW: "Travels With My Aunt" ★ Through March 27 at Writers' Theatre, 664 Vernon Ave., Glencoe; Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes; Tickets: $45-$60 at 847-242-6000 and www.wri…
Nina Metz reviews the Stage 773 comedy show, "Briko: All Silent, All Funny."
You have more chances to see three of the fall's top shows. The Court Theatre's production of "Home" has added four performances on Dec. 17, 18 and 19 (matinee and evening). Court rarely ext…
The Broadway musical "Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson" is today's Broadway casualty. The musical will play its final performance on Jan. 2, it was anounced Wednesday; its demise was widely an…
THEATER REVIEW: "The Importance of Being Earnest" ★★½ Through Jan. 9 at Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.; Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes; Tickets: $40-$55 at…