Caryl Churchill's "Love and Information," now in its Chicago premiere from the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, features 125 characters who appear in 57 distinct scenes. None of those scenes hav…
Caryl Churchill's "Love and Information," now in its Chicago premiere from the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, features 125 characters who appear in 57 distinct scenes. None of those scenes hav…
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., the subject of the new Danny Boyle movie with a script by Aaron Sorkin, and the man who revolutionized the way we now consume information and constr…
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., the subject of the new Danny Boyle movie with a script by Aaron Sorkin, and the man who revolutionized the way we now consume information and constr…
At the Evanston City Council meeting on Oct. 19, Northlight Theatre is slated to publicly reveal its interest in moving back to Evanston, the city where the theater company was founded by Gr…
Anyone headed to a show about Richard Pryor, one of the funniest comedians of the 20th century, might reasonably expect some laughs. Edgy amusement, sure, since Pryor was known for his profa…
At the Evanston City Council meeting on Oct. 19, Northlight Theatre is slated to publicly reveal its interest in moving back to Evanston, the city where the theater company was founded by Gr…
The first national tour of the critically acclaimed and Tony Award-winning musical, "Fun Home," is to play Chicago, the presenter and landlord Broadway in Chicago announced on Tuesday. T…
The first national tour of the critically acclaimed and Tony Award-winning musical, "Fun Home," is to play Chicago, the presenter and landlord Broadway in Chicago announced on Tuesday. Th…
After every school shooting, two debates rage. One involves gun control. The other concerns mental health, since we widely assume that to walk into a room of unarmed people and shoot them is…
At the top of Elizabeth Irwin's "My Manana Comes," a couple of battle-scarred busboys are decompressing after a busy shift in a posh Manhattan eatery. Their mutually congratulatory war stori…
Did Broadway save a bankrupt city of New York? Such a case is credibly made by New York Post columnist Michael Riedel in his fascinating new book, "Razzle Dazzle," published this week by Sim…
Imagine the characters from "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." Or, if you prefer television, "Glee." Now imagine them all dead. Those are the dramatis personae of "Ride the Cyclo…
Imagine the characters from "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." Or, if you prefer television, "Glee." Now imagine them all dead. Those are the dramatis personae of "Ride the Cyclon…
Visiting a class at Northwestern University the other day, I met a doctoral student, Eleanor Russell, whose research deals with stand-up comedians of the mid-20th century. As Russell explain…
If you have ever been awoken by a fight in a neighboring apartment " or found yourself watching shadows in windows across the street " you might have sympathy for the genesis of "The Cheats,…
Theater Wit needs to hang out a new shingle on Belmont Avenue: Theater for nerds. Madeleine George's terrific 2014 play "The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence" is the latest in a lin…
Theater Wit needs to hang out a new shingle on Belmont Avenue: Theater for nerds. Madeleine George's terrific 2014 play 'The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence" is the latest in a lin…
Nobody could accuse the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee of honoring the same old players. At the 2015 award ceremony Monday night, two dominant shows both were produced in their first year…
Is it legitimate to tell a story of Roger Ebert " the late, great film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, the formidably intellectual populist and the way-ahead-of-the-curve adopter of social…
Is it legitimate to tell a story of Roger Ebert " the late, great film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, the formidably intellectual populist and the way-ahead-of-the-curve adopter of social…
Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," now in a fine production from the Shattered Globe Theatre that includes the Tony award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan, is a comedy about so many of life's …
Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room," now in a fine production from the Shattered Globe Theatre that includes the Tony award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan, is a comedy about so many of life's …
In 2011, Michael Riedel, the formidably sourced and eternally puckish theater columnist of the New York Post, was charged by his bosses with writing something on the eve of the Tony Awards. …
On Tuesday, my colleague John von Rhein reported, the board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and the musicians of that venerable orchestra attended separate meetings but came ou…