This year's Chicagoan of the year for theater could have been the Chicagoan of the year in theater, or for dining, of any number of years. William Pullinsi, who is 76 and retires Dec. 31 as …
Martin Sheen was there. So was Gov. Pat Quinn, posing for pictures with some guy from "Chicago Fire." Mayor Rahm Emanuel was floating around on a higher level. And the banks of the Chicago R…
Redmoon, an unusual performance company specializing in public theatrical spectacles and a part of Chicago's cultural fabric for 25 years, is going out of business, effective immediately."We…
Redmoon, an unusual performance company specializing in public theatrical spectacles and a part of Chicago's cultural fabric for 25 years, is going out of business, effectively immediately. …
In the summer of 2014, an ordinary young boy from Liverpool, England, decided he'd finally seen something bigger than the Beatles. He'd stood in a crowd of about 300,000, watching three gia…
In the summer of 2014, an ordinary young boy from Liverpool, England, decided he'd finally seen something bigger than the Beatles. He'd stood in a crowd of about 300,000, watching three gian…
The Chicago actor " dedicated, trained, poorly compensated, ensemble-minded, unconcerned with celebrity " is one of this city's most overlooked assets. Here, in an end-of-year celebration of…
The Chicago actor " dedicated, trained, poorly compensated, ensemble-minded, unconcerned with celebrity " is one of this city's most overlooked assets. Here, in an end-of-year celebration of…
Last Saturday night would have been the 100th birthday of the Chairman of the Board. What board, you ask? Of picking yourself up and getting back in the race. Of understanding the length o…
Last Saturday night would have been the 100th birthday of the Chairman of the Board. What board, you ask? Of picking yourself up and getting back in the race. Of understanding the length of …
Here is what is on offer for your holiday pleasure at the Royal George Theatre: a trio of attractive men of a certain age, each with a formidable voice and a great deal of self-deprecating c…
A public official stands at a podium, his steely-faced wife by his side. You can see that he is angry, feeling forced into this situation. He speaks into the microphones. He says that he'll …
A public official stands at a podium, his steely-faced wife by his side. You can see that he is angry, feeling forced into this situation. He speaks into the microphones. He says that he'll …
So you can "Twist Your Dickens" once for fun and profit. But can you scratch your Cratchit a second time? Tricky, that, tricky. To be fair to Second City, the venerable comedy theater spent…
A troupe of giant puppets will not be roaming the streets of Chicago next year after all. After two years of work and months of negotiations, the city notified event organizers Thursday that…
So you can "Twist Your Dickens" once for fun and profit. But can you scratch your Cratchit a second time? Tricky, that, tricky. To be fair to Second City, the venerable comedy theater spent …
"Mr. Burns" offered an intellectual thrill inspired by Bart Simpson. A Tupperware musical could not contain itself. A "Godot" arrived. No question there was a "Doubt." "Twisted Melodies" pla…
What was the best show on Broadway in 2015? If you judge these things by emotional impact, and the matching of form to theme, and good, old-fashioned artistic guts laid out right there befor…
When Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was turned into a Steven Spielberg movie in 1985, Celie, Sofia and Shug Avery all became household names. But the conversation intimacy and sugar-and-s…
"Mr. Burns" offered an intellectual thrill inspired by Bart Simpson. A Tupperware musical could not contain itself. A "Godot" arrived. No question there was a "Doubt." "Twisted Melodies" pla…
When Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" was turned into a Steven Spielberg movie in 1985, Celie, Sofia and Shug Avery all became household names. But the conversation intimacy and sugar-and-s…
"Hamilton," the Broadway musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is launching its first national tour in Chicago, it was announced this week. The show is about the first secretar…
The new, old comedy at Chicago Shakespeare Theater begins with a flatulent grandfather clock " who knew? " and proceeds directly from there to the loud squawk of an unseen 18th-century Frenc…
"Hamilton," the Broadway musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is launching its first national tour in Chicago, it was announced this week. The show is about the first secretar…
"Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hot, hip-hop fueled Broadway musical about the face on the $10 bill, will launch its first national tour in Chicago with an extended run beginning Sept. 27, …