Inside a nondescript building not far from the Atlanta airport, David Korins, the set designer of "Hamilton," the creative director of "Hamilton: The Exhibition" and a man just finished with…
Margaret Trudeau " the mother of one Prime Minister of Canada and the former wife of another " will perform over Mother's Day weekend. But not in Canada. In Chicago. In the UP Comedy Club at…
Picking an aptly frigid day for their official announcement, Disney Theatricals said Tuesday that the Broadway musical "Frozen" is coming to Chicago. The first national tour of the musical w…
In a development likely to reshape, and possibly reignite, the Halsted Street corridor in Lincoln Park and impact the fiscal and artistic fortunes of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company for year…
Despite its misleading, click-baity title, "I Wanna (expletive) Tear You Apart," now at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, is actually a variously sweet and (mildly) bitter play about roomie fr…
Northlight Theatre has announced its five-show, 2019-20 season " the Skokie-based theater company's 45th slate. Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" is the opening attraction. A play about J…
Steppenwolf Theatre's 44th season will feature a new production of Tracy Letts' 1996 drama "Bug," helmed by the Broadway director David Cromer and starring the theater's new ensemble member …
After 19 years in an old grocery store next to the Berwyn "L" stop on the Red Line on Chicago's North Side, the 60-seat Steep Theatre Company is going Equity, effective early next season. An…
In her play "The Madres," seen last year at Chicago's Teatro Vista, the fine writer Stephanie Alison Walker wrote about the so-called Dirty War, the U.S.-backed Argentine purge that last fro…
The first act of God in Kareem Bandealy's "Act(s) of God" is an explosion of unexpected flatulence, as the visiting deity, ensconced in a redundant computer room, makes his (or her) presence…
"'Mamma Mia!' You're Showing Your Age,'" read the headline on one of my past, ever-wearying reviews of an ABBA-fueled show that is to jukebox cash-cows what eukaryotic single-celled microorg…
Director Stephen Daldry's heart-stopping deconstruction of the post-war J.B. Priestley thriller "An Inspector Calls" was, for my money, one of the best English-language productions of the 19…
Somewhere in the mid-1960s, Lee Radziwill (nee Bouvier), the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy and a socialite officially known as Princess Lee Radziwill following her 1959 marriage to Pr…
The consortium of universities known as the Big Ten has famous football and basketball programs (Go Buckeyes!), and a plethora of other varsity sports from lacrosse to judo to 10-pin bowling…
August Wilson believed strongly in leverage " the idea that, in a capitalist economy, we have to be cognizant of our value in the marketplace, understanding that our clout can and will go do…
The word Amazon is never mentioned in Abe Koogler's play "Fulfillment Center" " I suspect Koogler is well aware of the giant retailer's capacity for litigation " but this wry, poignant, plai…
Question: Which Broadway show has the highest audience demand in Chicago right now? "Hamilton" or "Dear Evan Hansen"? Answer: "Dear Evan Hansen," the moody musical about a loving single moth…
Never mind Ross, Rachel, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler and Monica for a second. Forget The Ophthalmologist, The Ugly Naked Guy, The One With the Monkey, The Ones Where Everyone Got Paid One Million…
Did you know you die three times? According to Abe " the deep-thinking character played by Jake Gyllenhaal, no less, in the depressing double bill at the Public Theater " you actually conk o…
"Dear Evan Hansen" is one of those rare Broadway musicals to seep into the consciousness of its target demographic " the first national tour opened at the newly renamed Nederlander Theatre o…
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," the new Broadway musical about the life and work of Michael Jackson, has canceled its Chicago tryout, slated for this fall. A New York spokesman for the sho…
So excruciating were the acceptance speeches at Sunday night's Grammy Awards that Trevor Noah compared them to irritating people who wait in line at Chipotle, "get to the front and go, 'uh �…
In 1991, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company opened its $8.28 million theater at 1650 N. Halsted St., finally jettisoning its old digs in a converted dairy barn. It picked the American premiere …
Mel Brooks was ecstatic. Anne Bancroft danced on a nearby table. Matthew Broderick chuckled. Even Nathan Lane cracked a smile. "The Producers" was a hit. In fact, the spin-off musical from t…
With major new funding from the property developer Sterling Bay, the Harris Theater plans a diverse and ambitious 2019-20 season, including visits from Bangarra Dance Theatre of Australia an…