4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
This show celebrates the power ballads, guitar-driven romps and heavy-metal masterworks of 1980s classic rock, god rest its soul.
In essence, Sandy Rustin (known for "Clue," the play) has penned an ersatz version of a Noel Coward comedy, as retrofitted for today's sensibilities.
The audience at my performance was well aware it was sitting in a great Chicago theater, listening to the words of one of the greatest playwrights ever born.
The new show at the Broadway Theatre is as artful as it is radically inventive: Think Imelda as a needy, up-from-the-sticks Evita and you won't be far wrong.
The theater also announced the hiring of Kimberly Motes as its new executive director.
The Chicago actor Mark Ulrich has taken over the role of Spooner.
The playwright and director has a terrific setting and concept for a great play, but not yet that play.
The joke in this parody whodunit is the impossibility of the actors' collective task.
Fans get a surround-sound concert of an artist who recorded so much in so short a time.
The theater has seen audiences drop away in recent months, artistic director Heidi Stillman said.
What better show is there for a ]young non-Equity Chicago theater company than Stephen Sondheim's backwards-moving musical of artistic dreams?
This new version of the 1969 album is truly a ready-for-prime-time stunner with enough assets to bring its Chicago audience to its feet.
Writers write what they know, and it seems reasonable to assume that Kate Arrington is drawing from her relationship with movie star Michael Shannon.
There is nothing in the plot to make you even remotely look forward to Act 2.
Viewed now, this musical feels prescient. You can see it now in Evanston.
He bills himself as the philosopher-magician, theming his show around ideas and beliefs. It's a stimulating nerd-magic niche.
For anyone who cares about classy nights out on Michigan Avenue, this new jukebox musical is a very positive development.
Pete Townshend, who was in his early 20s when he wrote most of "Tommy," is now 78 years old as the album-turned-Broadway musical plots a Chicago comeback
The 2023 awards had to thread the needle between supporting a strike by the Writers Guild and presenting a ceremony regarded as essential to a still struggling Broadway's health.
Daydreams are the least of the subconscious worries of Second City's fabulously diverse mainstage cast.
As was typical with Mortensen when playing characters facing trauma, emotions remained veiled at first, only to spill out with intensity.
Not only are the winners and losers at the 2023 Tony Awards unknown, so is the shape of the show.
You might think of this piece as the somber underbelly of "Mad Men," a story of what happens when the go-go music stops.
"Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon" is a caper story where both protagonists are Asian Americans who desire not to fall into the "model minority" stereotype.
"Personality," a new jukebox musical, is hoping to put up the name Lloyd Price on a Broadway marquee.
