4,886 stories by "Chris Jones"
Imagine: An elderly widow, suffering the onset of dementia, has access to a digital, three-dimensional version of her late husband, available at any age of his life. How about when he was 30…
Imagine: An elderly widow, suffering the onset of dementia, has access to a digital, three-dimensional version of her late husband, available at any age of his life. How about when he was 30…
This weekend in New York, producer Scott Rudin told me he watched the Roundabout Theater Company's production of Stephen Karam's "The Humans," a play he first had read after its premiere at …
Lots of playwrights write about their dads. Most of them just don't have the guts to stick it right there in the title.
But Boo Killebrew, a scribe with the kind of name you won't find easi…
Lots of playwrights write about their dads. Most of them just don't have the guts to stick it right there in the title. But Boo Killebrew, a scribe with the kind of name you won't find easil…
NEW YORK " At one point in "Sylvia," the A.R. Gurney off-Broadway comedy from 1995 now sitting down on Broadway, the titular pooch walks out on the stage, having just being spayed.
I say "w…
"The Humans," the Stephen Karam play that premiered at American Theater Company in Chicago, is headed to Broadway, the producer Scott Rudin told the Tribune this weekend.
The intimate show …
NEW YORK " At one point in "Sylvia," the A.R. Gurney off-Broadway comedy from 1995 now sitting down on Broadway, the titular pooch walks out on the stage, having just being spayed. I say "wa…
"The Humans," the Stephen Karam play that premiered at American Theater Company in Chicago, is headed to Broadway, the producer Scott Rudin told the Tribune this weekend. The intimate show w…
The Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace has scheduled another new musical with Broadway ambitions " "Hazel," a show based on the character from the Saturday Evening Post comic strip and t…
"Toruk " The First Flight," a major "Avatar"-themed new Cirque du Soleil attraction created in tandem with movie creator James Cameron and 20th Century Fox, is coing to Chicago, the Canadian…
"Toruk " The First Flight," a major "Avatar"-themed new Cirque du Soleil attraction created in tandem with movie creator James Cameron and 20th Century Fox, is coming to Chicago, the Canadia…
The hero of "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" is a rabbit made out of china. Merely moments into the Chicago Children's Theatre's fall production, directed by Stuart Carden, my unpro…
The Broadway star and recent Tony Awards co-host Kristin Chenoweth brings her concert show to the Chicago Theatre on Saturday night. "I do a lot of different material now," she s…
Chicago's official Christmas tree will move from Daley Plaza in the Loop, its familiar home for close to 50 years, to a new spot in Millennium Park, the Tribune reported Wednesday. The city …
After nearly eight years, the Jerry Lee Lewis jukebox musical 'Million Dollar Quartet' is closing at the Apollo Theater. So what's next?
After nearly eight years, one of the great recent su…
After nearly eight years, the Jerry Lee Lewis jukebox musical 'Million Dollar Quartet' is closing at the Apollo Theater. So what's next? After nearly eight years, one of the great recent suc…
Alas, "The Terrible" is pretty terrible.
Morgan McNaught's new play, which premiered Monday night at The Den Theatre as a New Colony production under the shrill direction of Jesse Roth, is …
Alas, "The Terrible" is pretty terrible. Morgan McNaught's new play, which premiered Monday night at The Den Theatre as a New Colony production under the shrill direction of Jesse Roth, is b…
In 2012, Tribune columnist Dawn Turner Trice introduced Chicago to Gloria Allen, a 66-year-old transgender Chicagoan, who regularly ate lunch at the Center on Halsted with other senior membe…
In 2012, Tribune columnist Dawn M. Turner introduced Chicago to Gloria Allen, a 66-year-old transgender Chicagoan, who regularly ate lunch at the Center on Halsted with other senior members …
After more than seven years and nearly 3,000 performances at the Apollo Theater, "Million Dollar Quartet" finally is leaving the building " and the city that made the show a hugely profitabl…
After more than seven years and nearly 3,000 performances at the Apollo Theater, "Million Dollar Quartet" finally is leaving the building " and the city that made the show a hugely profitabl…
"Did you read 'Treasure Island' as a child?" the woman in the seat next to me asked her companion before the Saturday opening of writer-director Mary Zimmerman's new show at the Lookingglass…
"Did you read 'Treasure Island' as a child?" the woman in the seat next to me asked her companion before the Saturday opening of writer-director Mary Zimmerman's new show at the Lookingglass…
