4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
Headed off to " or recently returned from "Â spring break? If you've been in a hotel, a theme park or on a cruise, I'll wager you've been asked to do one of two things, and probably both: …
At one point in "Kill Floor," the melancholy and moving new play by Abe Koogler at American Theater Company, the central character of Andy, played with rich empathy by Audrey Francis, confro…
Headed off to " or recently returned from "Â spring break? If you've been in a hotel, a theme park or on a cruise, I'll wager you've been asked to do one of two things, and probably both: …
A lone wolf prowls through Salem, Mass., in Ivo van Hove's eye-popping and wholly unconventional revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," that great dramatic cautionary tale about the pere…
A lone wolf prowls through Salem, Mass., in Ivo van Hove's eye-popping and wholly unconventional revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," that great dramatic cautionary tale about the pere…
In "United Flight 232," the new show at the House Theatre that you really shouldn't miss, you leave with a new understanding of how much flight crew members do for us when we're aloft " a bi…
A major, star-studded revival of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" " the 1928 play that romanticized Chicago newspapering, celebrated the achievements of "crummy hobos full …
The brilliance of "Matilda The Musical," the 2013 Broadway hit from Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company that has now arrived for just three spring weeks at Chicago's Oriental Theatre, lies i…
The brilliance of "Matilda The Musical," the 2013 Broadway hit from Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company that has now arrived for just three spring weeks at Chicago's Oriental Theatre, lies i…
If you had any doubt of the formidable polyglot of talent that makes up one Steve Martin, or you were under the misapprehension that his banjo was primarily the accessory of a stand-up or Ho…
You don't open a $28 million theater, as designed by world-class architect Jeanne Gang, every day of the week. Even in the bustling micropolis that is Glencoe. And thus Writers Theatre has c…
On Feb. 28, 1966, CBS aired Episode 23 of the fifth and final season of a sitcom it had acquired from NBC the previous year. Titled "Hazel," the show was about a live-in maid, played by Shir…
Such is the misogyny, cruelty and self-involvement of the three characters in "The Bachelors," a new play by Caroline V. McGraw about men behaving very, very badly, that they make playwright…
Here's a tagline "Chicago" the musical " and Chicago the city " did not need.
"Killing it Worldwide."
The new slogan, or tagline, in advertising parlance, was unveiled Tuesday in New…
Here's a tagline "Chicago" the musical " and Chicago the city " did not need. "Killing it Worldwide." The new slogan, or tagline, in advertising parlance, was unveiled here Tuesday as …
"Tracy and I are desperately clinging to this town" says Carrie Coon, lightly, over a glass of wine at the Summer House in Lincoln Park. "We just relish being here together. One of the curse…
"Tracy and I are desperately clinging to this town" says Carrie Coon, lightly, over a glass of wine at the Summer House Santa Monica in Lincoln Park. "We just relish being here together. One…
For all the grant money expended on theater that is designed to combat youth violence, there's a case to be made for just buying those at-risk kids a ticket to "West Side Story" instead. Or,…
On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 service, left Denver Stapleton Airport bound for Chicago's O'Hare International with 296 souls on board. After a catastrophic hydraulic …
On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 service, left Denver Stapleton Airport bound for Chicago's O'Hare International with 296 souls on board. After a catastrophic hydraulic …
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, he who invented serious and substantial American drama, was born in a Broadway hotel room in 1888 and deeply resented the location of his birth throughout his life.…
"Butler" is, if we are being frank, a comedy about slavery, an original sin of the United States of America.
The notion sounds offensively absurd in the extract, but the focus of the playwr…
"Butler" is, if we are being frank, a comedy about slavery, an original sin of the United States of America. The notion sounds offensively absurd in the extract, but the focus of the playwri…
Most of Chicago's biggest performing arts organizations have recently announced their upcoming seasons. Two striking things emerged. One is that most of the biggest institutions suddenly are…
Most of Chicago's biggest performing arts organizations have recently announced their upcoming seasons. Two striking things emerged. One is that most of the biggest institutions suddenly are…
