Most productions of "Twelfth Night" do not contain an interlude wherein the audience throws little balls at the sticky head of an actor, nor are the love-soaked follies of Illyria generally …
"The era of big government is over," said Bill Clinton in his 1996 State of the Union address. The former president and odds-on favorite to be future first husband was less than fully accura…
Most productions of "Twelfth Night" do not contain an interlude wherein the audience throws little balls at the sticky head of an actor, nor are the love-soaked follies of Illyria generally …
The measure of a card-carrying Broadway professional " which, especially these days, is not the same thing as a Broadway star " can best be taken on the road, upon which true Broadway profes…
The measure of a card-carrying Broadway professional " which, especially these days, is not the same thing as a Broadway star " can best be taken on the road, upon which true Broadway profes…
One of the most successful sitcoms of the 1980s is to be reborn: "Cheers Live on Stage" is headed to Chicago this fall. The touring show, licensed by CBS and produced by Stageworks Media an…
One of the most successful sitcoms of the 1980s is to be reborn: "Cheers Live on Stage" is headed to Chicago this fall. The touring show, licensed by CBS and produced by Stageworks Media and…
Behold the Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier. At a press conference Wednesday morning, Chicago Shakespeare will formally announce its long-anticipated plans to expand its f…
Behold the Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier. Chicago Shakespeare announced on Wednesday its long-anticipated plans to expand its footprint on Navy Pier and take over the s…
Fevered sex does not make a regular appearance on the stage of the Lifeline Theatre, the venerable Rogers Park theater better known for its literary adaptations of works by Jane Austen or Do…
Of all Shakespeare's great tragedies, none feel as personal as that of the Moor of Venice. This is, fundamentally, a play of the bedroom, a claustrophobic, voyeuristic drama about the perils…
So how persistent " and culturally significant " will be the affection of millennials for analog media? This strikes me as one of the more interesting and largely open questions of the c…
Most great American dramas of familial anguish and conflict are driven by outrageous individual behavior. But what distinguishes Stephen Karam's inestimably kind, rich and beautiful new play…
In Annie Baker's wonderful play "The Flick" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the very gifted actor Danny McCarthy is doing the best work of a New York and Chicago career that, at once, ha…
In Annie Baker's wonderful play "The Flick" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the very gifted actor Danny McCarthy is doing the best work of a New York and Chicago career that, at once, ha…
American Theater Company has hired a new artistic director " Will Davis, a 33-year-old, New York-based director and choreographer who will now become one of the very few transgender creative…
American Theater Company has hired a new artistic director " Will Davis, a 33-year-old, New York-based director and choreographer who will now become one of the very few transgender creative…
Roberto Bolano's overwhelming, high-modernist novel "2666" was published in 2004 " one year after the Chilean-born author's death, a result of liver failure, perhaps from a heroin habit earl…
Roberto Bolano's overwhelming, high-modernist novel "2666" was published in 2004 " one year after the Chilean-born author's death, a result of liver failure, perhaps from a heroin habit earl…
Marc Salem lacks the bouffant coif " and the sex appeal " of David Copperfield. No matter. The grand illusion is not the 60-something Salem's shtick. The son of a rabbi and a pharmacist, Sa…
Marc Salem lacks the bouffant coif " and the sex appeal " of David Copperfield. No matter. The grand illusion is not the 60-something Salem's shtick. The son of a rabbi and a pharmacist, Sal…
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the profoundly moving Broadway show about an extraordinary British teenager, will play Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a three-week engage…
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," the profoundly moving Broadway show about an extraordinary British teenager, will play Chicago's Oriental Theatre for a three-week engage…
At one point in "The Flick," Annie Baker's gorgeous, angst-ridden, ennobling celebration of the movie theater usher, one of the central ticket-taking characters observes that one night, afte…
Does Marco Rubio need Second City? It certainly looked that way in New Hampshire on Feb. 6. At the eighth Republican debate, the prominent candidate for the Republican Party's presidential n…