This promising new show taps into the true-crime story of Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek, a one-time Milwaukee cop and Playboy bunny, with music by Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes.
In Jim Cartwright's play, the struggling title character escapes from her chaotic life into a world of songbooks.
Writer Pearl Cleage's play is about characters trying to hold on to their idealism, and their relationships, even as conflict lurks around every corner.
In Brett Neveu's quirky new comedy, a young retail worker's birthday is in need of saving.
Under his leadership, the Hyde Park theater won the 2022 regional Tony Award.
First-timers got special buttons when Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the Founding Fathers opened back in the Loop Thursday night. It's hard for me to put myself in their place.
For my money, Noah Haidle's play is precisely why people go to the theater.
He told the Tribune that he was proud that the company had not hibernated during the pandemic, but created risky but successful projects including a drive-through production of "Twilight: Go…
This is not an operatic production, it is raw, simple and potent.
This is a huge production with a sing-it-to-the-hilt cast with huge voices.
This jukebox musical about Johnny Cash feels like a collective concert.
Enough with comparisons to that meaningless term, "normal."
A pre-Broadway tryout of a musical version of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis movie "Death Becomes Her" is coming in 2024 to the Cadillac Palace Theatre.
Chicago theater-goers can also look forward to operas at Lyric, "POTUS" at Steppenwolf and a "Twelfth Night" transported to the Caribbean.
You worry hard here for Madame Rose, disappointed in life and love. And you sure as heck feel for June and Louise.
The theater said Thursday that it was laying off 12% of its staff.
"The Magic Parlour," performed for some 15 years at the Palmer House, is moving to Petterino's.
Theater in both Chicago and America has changed so much since 2019, it is almost unrecognizable. A long list of our storefront companies have closed.
John Berendt's bestseller is set in Savannah, Georgia, and became a 1997 Clint Eastwood movie.
The unsparing British play by Ella Hickson is having its U.S. premiere in Chicago.
At the Nederlander Theatre in the Loop, the atmosphere was electric and the action on stage was halted several times for standing ovations.
This musical is bold in theme and rewards those who see the show in an intimate space.
If you go and see this show, you'll never again travel through Albany Park without turning your head and looking up anew at its windows.
Frenetically paced, relentlessly comedic and visually chaotic, this show is aimed squarely at middle America. God bless it for that.
The new musical based on the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie is New York-bound.