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If ever there was a week for optimism about the state of Chicago theater, this feels like that week. The Shakespeare 400 festival, centered on Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, is al…
Second City will announce Tuesday that it is opening what it calls "the world's first film school dedicated to comedy."
The new venture at the comedy institution's Chicago headquarters is t…
Second City will announce Tuesday that it is opening what it calls "the world's first film school dedicated to comedy." The new venture at the comedy institution's Chicago headquarters is to…
If a King Lear could still be said to exist anywhere in the world, then Alexander Lukashenko, the president of the Republic of Belarus, is about as close a candidate as you could find. In of…
"Yes. Yes," shouted Tracy Morgan as he took the stage at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond on Friday night, his skull pointed toward the heavens.
"Oh my God," he yelled, as cheers started to …
"Yes. Yes," shouted Tracy Morgan as he took the stage at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond on Friday night, his skull pointed toward the heavens. "Oh my God," he yelled, as cheers started to b…
To the august members of the Explorers Club, a wacky crew of Victorian-era Brits who all look and behave like refugees from some half-baked Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, women are dangerous…
How did Writers Theatre, a theater that formerly spent much of its history playing to 60 people in the back of a struggling suburban book store, and then to 110 people inside an old-school w…
Michael Tiknis, the president of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance for the last 12 years, said Thursday night that he has decided to leave his post at the end of this year
"It felt …
Michael Tiknis, the president of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance for the last 12 years, said Thursday night that he has decided to leave his post at the end of this year. "It felt …
David Mamet's "American Buffalo" was the in-your-face drama that inspired Rich Cotovsky to get into the theater business. So when Cotovsky's Mary-Arrchie Theatre was making plans for its las…
The latest endeavor from the restless minds at the House Theatre of Chicago is not so much a show as a puzzle room, constructed in the basement of the Chopin Theatre. Therein, an audience wi…
The latest endeavor from the restless minds at the House Theatre of Chicago is not so much a show as a puzzle room, constructed in the basement of the Chopin Theatre. Therein, an audience wi…
James Corden, the 37-year-old, British-born host of "The Late Late Show with James Corden" on CBS, will host the 2016 Tony Awards, it was announced Tuesday.
Corden has theater credits on bo…
James Corden, the 37-year-old, British-born host of "The Late Late Show with James Corden" on CBS, will host the 2016 Tony Awards, it was announced Tuesday. Corden has theater credits on bot…
The Mercury Theater, in Chicago's booming Southport corridor, is a jewel-box of a theater. But it rarely has contained a jewel box of a show, mostly because producers and directors have thor…
"Don't they know it's the end of the world?" Karen Carpenter once asked in a deeply poignant song marveling how time marches on, the perplexingly cheery populace seemingly oblivious to the b…
Before the one-percentery raised its collective, meritocratic, self-justifying head, the posh ruled.
Actually, the posh still rule across the pond, where class, as distinct from mere wealth…
"Don't they know it's the end of the world?" Karen Carpenter once asked in a deeply poignant song marveling how time marches on, the perplexingly cheery populace seemingly oblivious to the b…
Ernie Nolan, the artistic director of the Emerald City Theatre company, said Friday afternoon that he had been asked to leave his position as artistic director of the children's theater c…
Ernie Nolan, the artistic leader of the Emerald City Theatre company, said Friday afternoon that he had been asked to leave his position as artistic director of the children's theater com…
Before the one-percentery raised its collective, meritocratic, self-justifying head, the posh ruled. Actually, the posh still rule across the pond, where class, as distinct from mere wealth,…
In 2005, an auction of jazz memorabilia was held at the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, benefiting foundations, archives and young musicians. One item, which went for $3,500, was a letter fr…
"Measure for Measure," the opening production in Chicago's hugely exciting Shakespeare 400 celebration, is performed in Russian, with English surtitles. I throw that out at the beginning mos…
Terrence McNally, the author of such celebrated works of drama as "Love! Valour! Compassion!," "Master Class" and "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," and the bookwriter of such musica…
