"No More Sad Things," the world premiere at the Richard Christiansen Theater at the Biograph, is about a holiday romance on Maui " a kind of Pacific version of "How Stella Got Her Groove Bac…
Attending a satirical show named after the term for chest pain often deriving from coronary artery disease was perhaps a foolhardy way to spend a Saturday night, but the title alone of "Angi…
Attending a satirical show named after the term for chest pain often deriving from coronary artery disease was perhaps a foolhardy way to spend a Saturday night, but the title alone of "Angi…
The saddest holiday show in Chicago is to be found at the Strawdog Theatre in Chicago, where a new production this year of Paula Vogel's "The Long Christmas Ride Home" offers the apt reminde…
The saddest holiday show in Chicago is to be found at the Strawdog Theatre in Chicago, where a new production this year of Paula Vogel's "The Long Christmas Ride Home" offers the apt reminde…
Art is never experienced in a vacuum. It morphs according to context. It reinvents itself with the changing mental state of the viewer. However much you try to wall off a painting, quieten t…
Put this question in your Thanksgiving trivia contest: Which character from popular English-language literature has been played by more stage and screen actors than any other? It's not Eben…
Put this question in your Thanksgiving trivia contest: Which character from popular English-language literature has been played by more stage and screen actors than any other? It's not Ebene…
Samuel D. Hunter's beautiful new drama "Pocatello" is set in a very small town in Idaho where there are no paternalistic newspaper editors nor empathetic doctors, nor even an intimidating sc…
A lust for the abiding pleasures of non-conformity " otherwise known as embracing la vie boheme, telling the boss to stuff it, or moving to Portland, Ore., " beat inside many a fevered breas…
Samuel D. Hunter's beautiful new drama "Pocatello" is set in a very small town in Idaho where there are no paternalistic newspaper editors nor empathetic doctors, nor even an intimidating sc…
Sophocles specialized in tense but humanistic dramas of passionate individuals trapped in impossible paradoxes. Euripides was a maverick and an iconoclast who loved upending his audience's m…
There is more explicit sex in director Ethan McSweeny's American Theater Company production of Thomas Bradshaw's "Fulfillment" than any show you're likely to have seen. Unless, that is, you …
There is more explicit sex in director Ethan McSweeny's American Theater Company production of Thomas Bradshaw's "Fulfillment" than any show you're likely to have seen. Unless, that is, you …
In Stephen King's "Misery," a writer wakes from a serious car accident to find himself recovering in the spare bedroom of his self-nominated Number One Fan. Whether in the 1987 novel, the 19…
John Logan's carefully researched and clinically penned 1985 play "Never the Sinner," now the subject of a skillful new production at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre directed by Gary Gr…
In Stephen King's "Misery," a writer wakes from a serious car accident to find himself recovering in the spare bedroom of his self-nominated Number One Fan. Whether in the 1987 novel, the 19…
In the recent Republican presidential debates, the moderators have made as much news as the candidates. During the notorious CNBC extravaganza of Oct. 28, the candidates were so furious with…
In the recent Republican presidential debates, the moderators have made as much news as the candidates. During the notorious CNBC extravaganza of Oct. 28, the candidates were so furious with…
NEW YORK " The white-hot director Ivo van Hove is not the first to embrace the passionate smolder behind Arthur Miller's 1955 play of forbidden passion in Italian-American Brooklyn, or to re…
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which opens the Bruce Norris play "Domesticated" on Dec. 13, is the Chicago theatrical equivalent of REI, which enjoyed all kinds of publicity after declarin…
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which opens the Bruce Norris play "Domesticated" on Dec. 13, is the Chicago theatrical equivalent of REI, which enjoyed all kinds of publicity after declarin…
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, two of Broadway's most acclaimed divas, will come to Chicago's Goodman Theatre in June to star in a new, likely Broadway-bound musical about the famous r…
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, two of Broadway's most acclaimed divas, will come to Chicago's Goodman Theatre in June to star in a new, likely Broadway-bound musical about the famous r…
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, Chicago will host a huge interdisciplinary arts festival in 2016, dubbed "Shakespeare 400." Led by the Chicago Sh…