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Talking to the top government official, nominated by Trump's White House, who is looking out for artists and the arts in America.
No live theater at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf until at least mid-fall. Instead, many from the famous ensemble will do streaming productions.
The Hollywood types are all locked away in their beach houses and penthouses. Who's taking up the spotlight now? Our mayors and governors.
"A young black man and woman lean into each other across the table, within the allowed parameters of closeness," the playwright André Patterson wrote. His play must now wait to be staged.
The nominations are in for this year's Non-Equity Jeff Awards, Chicago's theater awards going to productions not covered by a union contract.
Review: "Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration" on Broadway.com with Broadway stars Neil Patrick Harris, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Platt and others.
Another unfortunate casualty of the pandemic, the Stratford Fest in Canada has put theater "on hold."
Songs, books and movies all tell stories about moments in history. Wars, the 1960s, times of change. What will the pandemic story be?
In its best moments, Steven Levenson's "If I Forget" is like a Jewish "August: Osage County," a relatable familial potboiler that simmers with religious, generational, marital and ideologica…
"Lifetime achievement," said the writer Terrence McNally at the Tony Awards last weekend. "Not a moment too soon." That dry opening joke by the 80-year-old author of such dramatic masterwork…
The 2019 Tony Awards turned out heavenly for "Hadestown," the stylized, bluesy, steampunk-influenced Anais Mitchell musical based on the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth and set partly in the und…
The Den Theatre " the hip, multi-stage venue on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park " has been one of the great success stories of the last decade in Chicago theater. For the past generation, bo…
Barbara E. Robertson has graced pretty much every major theater in Chicago: Goodman, Steppenwolf, you name 'em. She played for a while in "Wicked," too. But her performance in Firebrand Thea…
"Hadestown," a stylized, bluesy, steampunk-influenced Anais Mitchell musical based on the "Orpheus and Eurydice" myth and set partly in the underworld, beat out its more traditional rival "T…
A million dollars for the new TimeLine Theatre in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood; $2 million for the South Side Community Arts Center; $850,000 for the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance; $927,500 fo…
Kenneth Lin " a writer for "House of Cards" among other TV shows " has written a really lovely little play, all about people who have risen in life on the back of their affinity for numbers …
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has never moved a show to Broadway. Might that change with "Six," its big hit this summer? If the theater keeps its head on its shoulders. (I'm here all week). "S…
Walk into "Ms. Blakk for President," the new Steppenwolf Theatre show from Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau about the remarkable political odyssey of Terence Smith, one of the founders …
Given the state of the world, who wouldn't want to be abducted? I mean, it would at least be nice to keep that option in one's back pocket: When our streets fill with water and our planet be…
The Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, a recent transplant to Evanston and a longtime favorite of the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee, shared top honors at the 2019 Non-Equity Jeffs with The Art…
A political soothsayer and savant, the English playwright and novelist W. Somerset Maugham despised the hypocrisy of war. And as early as 1933, from his home in southern France, Maugham coul…
Near the end of the first of his two nights of shows at the Chicago Theatre on Thursday, the British comedian Eddie Izzard let out a kind of goodbye to all this: "This might be my last tour,…
Terrence McNally's "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" begins with climactic sex between a middle-aged waitress and her short-order cook. In the script he wrote in the late 1980s, McNa…
"If I said I love him," sings Marvin, the leading character in "Falsettos," "you might think my words come cheap. Let's just say I'm glad he's mine awake, asleep." Truths about love and rela…
The other day, Instagram followers of Virgil Abloh, the 38-year-old creator of Off-White and also now the "artistic director" of Louis Vuitton's entire menswear line, got a treat " the clear…
