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At one point in "October Sky," the new Marriott Theatre musical based on the biographical 1999 movie about the aerospace engineer Homer H. Hickam, Jr., the principal of Big Creek High School…
At one point in "October Sky," the new Marriott Theatre musical based on the biographical 1999 movie about the aerospace engineer Homer H. Hickam, Jr., the principal of Big Creek High School…
Chicago venerable, anti-establishment Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company announced Tuesday that its 30th season, which opens Sept. 10, will be its last.
August Strindberg's Miss Julie - a posh, sexually adventurous young woman who goes looking for pleasure in the servant's quarters and who causes a plethora of trouble for the help - is among…
TimeLine Theatre Company is a hefty step closer to moving to its own space in the former Trumbull Elementary School in the Chicago neighborhood of Andersonville.
When the Paramount Theatre in Aurora began producing its own musicals, the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee deemed the theater ineligible, on the grounds that Aurora was too far from the ci…
The impresario and performer Hershey Felder is doubling down on his commitment to the Royal George Theatre. He is, of late, the only one who seems to have been able to make the place work. F…
"The Book of Mormon" is coming back in the summer of 2016 for another seven weeks - its third Chicago engagement in four years - Broadway in Chicago was to announce Monday night at its annua…
In 2002 at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago, a young actor from Naperville named Chris Herzberger appeared in a bizarre and now-forgotten commercial production of a musical called "Uncle …
The Defiant Thomas Brothers are coming back. Why is that a big deal? You might well wonder, especially if you weren't in Chicago before 2006. That was the year the sketch comedy team of Paul…
A new touring Canadian show about one of the most beloved of fictional detectives will make its United States premiere in Chicago in November, Broadway in Chicago has announced. "Sherlock Ho…
House Theatre of Chicago is creating a new show based on one of the worst air disasters in U.S. history - the 1989 crash of a Chicago-bound United Airlines DC-10 flight in Sioux City, Iowa. …
The venerable Cirque du Soleil is in a process of artistic and fiscal reinvention, driven by technological changes and the internal realization that some of its venerably whimsical touches h…
To stare at the Jiffy Lube magazine rack the other day was to behold the power and the glory of Amy Schumer, a woman who, as recently as a year ago, could have gone in for a synthetic oil ch…
NEW YORK - Stare at a $10 bill at the Richard Rodgers Theatre - you'll need one for a soda and tip - and you might discern an unusually chirpy expression on the grainy visage of Alexander Ha…
Meet the Tribune's Hot New Faces of the Chicago stage, our Top 10 for 2015. Each summer for the last eight years, we've picked a crop of Chicago's rising stars of the local theater.
Although hardly household names, TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi are revered figures in the world of improvisational comedy. Improvisers' improvisers, they are known in both Chicago and New …
The play begins on a cross-country train headed back east in 1940. A young serviceman - recently discharged due his epilepsy but still wearing his uniform - is chatting up a traveling small-…
The play begins on a cross-country train headed back east in 1940. A young serviceman - recently discharged due to his epilepsy but still wearing his uniform - is chatting up a traveling sma…
Disney's dancing "Newsies" are returning to Chicago in 2016. Broadway in Chicago said Wednesday that the first national tour of the movie adaptation and unexpected Broadway hit - now known f…
Broadway in Chicago has booked a new touring production of the classic backstage musical "42nd Street," the Chicago presenter announced Tuesday. The production will be directed by Mark Bramb…
If someone in lederhosen were to shout at you "Ziggy, Ziggy, Ziggy," would you feel compelled to shout back "Oy, Oy, Oy"? Do you crave the chance to do a conga down Belmont Avenue with a guy…
Paul Christiano was convicted in 1999 of purchasing child pornography through the mail. The offense, committed when Christiano was in his early 20s, obliged him to register as a sex offender…
The Mission Theater, the venue-within-a-venue at the iO comedy theater in Chicago run by the famed Chicago improvisers TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi, is closing at the end of the mon…
In ego-fueled world of stand-up comedy, size matters. "Chicago, we sold this place out for three shows," the diminutive but blowing-up Kevin Hart crowed from the stage of the United Cent…
