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After a prolonged silence, the board of directors posted two open letters on the theater's website.
This 1928 composition really never goes out of style, and as long as corruption, hypocrisy and virtue signaling remain a constituent part of human behavior, it never will.
Like many revivals of entertainments from that time, "Dancin'" lands in a kind of uneasy middle ground between past and present, old ways and new.
The founding artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater might possibly direct a show here or there in retirement, but the production that opened Thursday night on Navy Pier is the end …
The new revival, which stars Ben Platt in the title role, is a more of an explicit indictment of Southern Republicans.
The secret sauce of jukebox musicals is they can roll back time. We get to hear Tina Turner at the height of her powers.
Stephen Sondheim's much-anticipated final musical, "Here We Are," will premiere in September at the electric New York venue known as The Shed.
Rajiv Joseph's play is a lot like watching 50 separate plays and then trying to put them in the right order in your head.
Chicago's Lyric Opera billed the season as a "global tour of opera featuring a richly curated slate of musical events in six different languages."
This first full production has vibrant characters, lots of funny family comedy, a delightful central performance from Becca Khalil.
Experiencing the fascinating new revival of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is not unlike listening to a podcast.
Mahogany L. Browne's novel is now in a world-premiere adaption at Steppenwolf, full of beautiful language.
This touring cast shows more affection for these characters and for material that always was progressive,
Rosenkranz, who grew up in Mexico and sometimes performs shows in Spanish, is no frenetic, over-polished magician.
People often end up marrying somebody they meet by chance, say on a train or a park bench, and they then spend years wondering whether the encounter was really random at all.
Like the 2007 film, "Once" uses a couple (an Irish street musician and a young, Czech immigrant mother) who are always on the edge of a relationship.
Sharyn Rothstein's gutsy play is well cast and sharply staged, with its urgent question right there in the title.
In a boost for the fall fortunes of the Loop's entertainment district, the hit Lin-Manuel Miranda musical "Hamilton" is returning to Chicago this fall.
The intent here, I think, is to universalize the story of the young Englishwoman in France, and not worry unduly about the original cultural specifics.
The creepy thriller by Levi Holloway that premiered in 2019 in Chicago will open on Broadway in May.
Caryl Churchill's play focuses on the rural inhabitants, especially the local women, who have to fight not only their corporate overlords but the sanctions of their own community.
The lobby of the Cadillac Palace was abuzz at intermission with the remarkable vocal prowess of this touring cast.
In 1940, the actress Hattie McDaniel won an Academy Award for her performance as Mammy in "Gone with the Wind," becoming the first Black actor to have been nominated for, or to win, an Oscar.
Coming in the fall, the musical will be directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, who long has favored Chicago as his tryout city.
Steven Sondheim's beautiful musical offers resonances wherever you may be on life's journey.
