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If the true test of a fine Tony is the song "Maria," the equivalent for Maria is the final scene of the show.
The show, now directed with his typical craft and creativity by Joe Mantello, first titillates its audience with loud, scary music and a theater that immediately plunges into darkness.
The comedy operation, wherein an actor drinks copious qualities of alcohol for comedic purposes, is facing a unionization demand.
The entire Goodman Theatre cast is going with the show, including Mary Beth Fisher as a widow dealing with grief and bereavement.
Itamar Moses' new play at Theater Wit is an entry in the long-standing genre of playwrights writing about selling their souls for a Hollywood dime.
Our city's theater scene has enough excitement to rival NASCAR or Lolla this summer.
Here's the appeal of "MotherFreakingHood!," a better-than-you-probably-think show: It's simple. It says, and sings, that you are not alone.
Court has put up something with an expansive vision and a directorial approach that respects the material but gently improves upon it.
Heidi Schreck's deeply personal work explored how the U.S. Constitution had profoundly influenced the life of an American woman in her mid-40s.
Chicago playwright Joshua Allen has been quietly building something very interesting at Chicago's growing Raven Theatre.
The newly renovated Studebaker Theater on Michigan Avenue has snagged a high-profile Christmas show.
Ernest Shackleton was an adventurer, polar explorer and a man who survived in the Antarctic by drifting on ice floes while eating penguins and dogs.
Two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon is scheduled to return to his Chicago theater home in 2024.
Actor Antonio Edwards Suarez attended a performance by Mikhail Baryshnikov, he tells us, and came to a realization.
But this zesty new 2023 production, directed by James Vásquez, has an admirable crackle of the bat.
The theater returns to large-scale producing on Navy Pier next season with a new work based on the 2005 concept album "Illinois."
Either Lorraine Hansberry's genius 1964 play was ahead of its time, or we have slid backwards.
In the mid-1980s, Broadway tasked country artist Roger Miller with writing the music for a new adaptation of Mark Twain's 1884 novel.
Writers Theatre in Glencoe now has a new artistic director, Braden Abraham.
Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for non-profit U.S. theater, is coming in June 2024.
Deeply dedicated to honoring actual events and revealing human truths, "London Road" has so very much to offer.
"The Porch on Windy Hill" should dial back the lecturing and sloganeering and focus on how music can heal and bring people together.
Herein, you'll find some of Sondheim's greatest songs. I'm going through a bit of an empty-nest crisis, so "Stay With Me" has me at "Don't you know what's out there in the world?"
This hugely enjoyable show is filled with talented kids and helmed by the big-hearted Nick Druzbanski in the role made famous by Jack Black.
The theater opened in 2015 and had a string of notable successes, including the long-running "Southern Gothic."
