Adam Rapp's terrific play is about a Yale professor and her relationship with a freshman student, starring Mary Beth Fisher and John Drea, directed by Robert Falls.
Back in front of live audiences, the cast has a new show in Chicago. It's a very tentative return but welcome nonetheless.
When it came to defiant artistic visions, Helmut Jahn, Mark Rothko and Stephen Sondheim had a whole lot in common.
Here's a COVID-19 recovery policy I hope sticks around: tickets that are both changeable and refundable.
As Broadway's biggest hits, they're usually competitors, but they've jointly announced a grand reopening of New York theater next September. Get your tickets now.
The dinner-and-circus show Teatro ZinZanni is likely to be the first show back in Chicago's theater district when it reopens July 8.
Millennium Park will be full of music and dance this summer, performances are coming back to theaters and venues in Chicago on Broadway. The arts recovery is happening, and fast.
Broadway is coming back on Sept. 14., with its historic theaters selling tickets to their full capacity. Advance tickets are to go on sale Thursday.
The tennis is only suggested on stage at Writers Theatre in this streaming play. But tennis fans won't look away for a second as an aging champ battles a younger opponent, and time.
Streaming ballet by Joffrey rehearsal director Nicolas Blanc is set to music by Italian composer Ezio Bosso, from which it borrows its title. It's well timed for our current moment.
The artistic leader of Steppenwolf and the director of "August: Osage County" is stepping down from her post effective at the end of August.
It's been so long, we've almost forgotten what a live show can be like. Up in Wisconsin, "First Lady of Song: Alexis Roston sings Ella Fitzgerald" takes that first step back into a theater.
New president Jeffrey P. Haydon and his staff have come up with an ambitious plan to present music outside in Highland Park this summer. Ravinia has been much missed.
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced its upcoming 2021-22 season in its new theater campus on Halsted Street.
Assuming the Chicago theater community puts its focus on its audience, live shows are about to come roaring back.
The magical adaptation from the "Ring" cycle is unlike anything you've seen before, with scenes and music in an automobile processional.
Lately, those critical of Broadway theater say it compromises art and hurts artists. Karen Olivo quit the cast of "Moulin Rouge!" But consider this ...
When John Kramer first tended bar at Second City in 1981, the co-founder Bernie Sahlins signed every check himself. Kramer says he won't set foot in the theater again.
Ambitious and "unprecedented," the new Arts 77 plan promises millions to fund arts recovery in Chicago.
The Goodman Theatre said Monday that it will join with a video production company and create three new productions in coming weeks, including "The Sound Inside" in its first live production …
The election in Chicago follows similar union victories at Second City theaters in Hollywood, Calif. and Toronto, Ontario.
Recent news that live theater will once again fill the Kennedy Center was greeted with suspicion on social media. How to heal this divide, between politics and the safety afforded by vaccine…
This last week was a start reminder that the performing arts, when they do return to the stage in Chicago, need to address the fears and tensions we all feel this spring.
The longtime husband of Queen Elizabeth II died Friday at the age of 99. But he once looked a schoolboy at Bury Grammar School in the eye, and the boy has not forgotten.
Our theater and dance companies are nearly ready to rush back to Chicago stages. There won't be enough stages to go around. Here's a way to look elsewhere.