THE SECRET IS OUT: COUNCIL IS A WINNER The First Folio Theatre has come up with an unexpected winner in David Rice's world premiere adaptation of Agatha Christie's light novel of internation…
FIREFLIES SHINES BRIGHT AT NORTHLIGHT Fireflies at the Northlight Theater takes audiences back to the fraught year of 1963 in the Deep South, where racial tensions burn hot, as black people …
The Impostors Theatre Company (ITC) continues their third season with the Chicago premiere of Hertha Nova, by ITC Executive Director Rachel Borgo and directed by ITC Artistic Director Stefan…
MARVIN'S ROOM COMES TO ACTORS CO-OP The Award-winning Actors Co-op Theatre Company proudly presents Marvin's Room, winner of the 1991-1992 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. The audience…
WASHING AWAY DOUBTS ABOUT GREAT THEATER And now for something completely different for the holiday entertainment season, a one-man show called Dishwasher Dreams performed by a Bangladesh act…
AN UPDATED AND STILL OUTDATED KISS In William Shakespeare's 16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, a wandering fortune hunter named Petruchio does battle with a fiery independent woman…
Pretty Woman: The Musical is an adaption of the 1990 motion picture that made a star of Julia Roberts as Vivian, a Hollywood prostitute who wants out of her life on the streets. Providential…
English novelist Charles Dickens once actually used his hat to carry water to victims of a train wreck in Victorian England. Playwright Michael Hollinger uses that odd historical incident as…
A SOBERING EXPERIENCE When Harry Met Rehab is a new play at the Greenhouse Theater Center that takes on the uninviting subject alcoholism. The title may suggest that the play intends a light…
PARADISE, INDEED The eyes of the theater world, both in Chicago and New York City, are likely now focused on the James M. Nederlander Theatre where Paradise Square is performing before its t…
THIS BUGABOO WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME The Steppenwolf Theatre's extraordinary production of Tracy Letts's Bug was winding down its highly praised production in March 2020 when the drama was forc…
Sister Act at the Mercury Theater is the 2011 Broadway adaptation of a 1992 movie that became a surprise box office hit, largely elevated by a star performance from Whoopi Goldberg. The show…
SEEING THIS REVUE MAY BE THE BEST DECISION YOU'VE EVER MADE I entered the Second City e.t.c. on opening night with a sense of unease. Two weeks earlier the Second City mainstage company, the…
WHAT A GREAT SHOW CAN MEAN TO YOU What the Constitution Means to Me is back at the Broadway Playhouse after a two year pandemic hiatus. Again, it is delivering an entertaining, thoughtful, h…
IS LESS MOOR? The Court Theatre artistic management is giving William Shakespeare's great tragedy Othello a startling makeover. The play has been condensed into a single 110-minute act. The …
YOU WILL LIKE IT In As You Like It, the new production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the company unites William Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy, with the Beatles songbook. And th…
TOGETHER IN SPIRIT MORE THAN LAUGHS After an 18-month hiatus inflicted on Chicagoland theater because of the virus pandemic, the Second City has finally opened its 109th revue, the upbeat-ti…
SONGS FOR EVERYBODY In the spring of 2020 the Northlight Theatre was set to present Bethany Thomas in "Songs for Nobodies," a one-performer show that would celebrate five iconic female singe…
DON'T STOP THIS WORLD The Marriott Theater is reopening for business with a revival of "The World Goes 'Round," a review (originally titled "And the World Goes 'Round") that features songs b…
The Paramount begins the post-COVID pandemic theater scene with an exhilarating revival of Kinky Boots. We likely won't see a better musical comedy production the rest of this season. The Pa…
A HOLIDAY CHESTNUTCRACKER The Joffrey Ballet is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its holiday production of The Nutcracker, which means audiences have enjoyed an evening of grace, beauty, …
IT’S STILL WONDERFUL In just a few seasons, It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play has ascended to the top of the Christmas tree of essential local holiday entertainments. A show that c…
HOGWARTS AND ALL The Harry Potter parody called Potted Potter is the joint creation of a couple of Englishmen named Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner (Dan and Jeff on the stage). The duo …
ANYTHING BUT DEAD James Joyce is not usually considered a source of Christmas cheer, but the great Irish author did write one Christmas piece of sorts, a short story called The Dead that app…
WORTH THE FARE Hellcab opened in Chicago in 1992 for a 12-performance run and the immediate audience buzz had the show playing for the rest of the decade. Now it is is back at the Profiles T…