The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) " the organization that “creates community through American tap ... The post Tommy Tune will join in Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s 25th a…
Russ Tutterow, who has served as Chicago Dramatists' first and only artistic director for 30 ... The post Russ Tutterow steps down at Chicago Dramatists appeared first on Chicago Entertainme…
"Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem" weaves together the lives of the great Yiddish writer whose stories inspired "Fiddler on the Roof." The post Spertus screens film featuring…
With all its talk about real estate, inheritance taxes, the oil business, bankruptcy, foreclosure, foreign investment, education and immigrants, you might suspect that "Dividing the Estate" …
Annaleigh Ashford, who created the role of Lauren, the loyal and enterprising employee in the hit Broadway musical "Kinky Boots," is headed to Chicago's Broadway Playhouse for a one-night-o…
In Stephanie Alison Walker's fierce and troubling play, a daughter faces the harrowing and tragic realization that her mother is suffering from early onset dementia. The post ‘The Art …
Bruce Graham's play, "White Guy on the Bus," now in its world premiere at Northlight Theatre under the take-no-prisoners direction of BJ Jones, is an altogether incendiary examination of rac…
Was this man more or less dead for most of his 58 years? And did he only briefly "wake up" as the clock of his life was ticking down to the final minutes of his semi-conscious state in the w…
"Shirt Off My Back," choreographer Ray Mercer's new work for Giordano Dance Chicago, grew out of a conversation about relationships he had with friends in the cast of "The Lion King," the Br…
Chicago-based actress and writer Sandra Delgado has been named one of four recipients of 2015 Joyce Awards designed to support collaborations between artists of color and leading arts and cu…
"Wonderland, Alice's Rock & Roll Adventure" " a new family musical created by director Rachel Rockwell and music director Michael Mahler " will be presented by the Chicago Children's Th…
Gina Gionfriddo’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” now receiving its Chicago premiere at the Goodman Theatre, bears ... The post ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ lacks emotion…
A leafless tree on a desolate road. And there they are, Vladimir and Estragon, those two homeless men in tattered bowler hats " one with stinky feet and the other with weak kidneys. Samuel B…
Sean Graney, who had stepped away from the artistic directorship of The Hypocrites three years ago, will resume his post. The post Sean Graney returning to leadership post at the Hypocrites …
Audiences headed to TimeLine Theatre to see one or both of Richard Nelson's tightly connected Apple Family plays " "That Hopey Changey Thing" and "Sorry" " are strongly advised to eat before…
There will be a world premiere play by Marcus Gardley as part of this season's lineup at the Victory Gardens Theatre. But instead of the previously announced "A Wonder in My Soul," audiences…
Drury Lane Theatre's grand-scale, emotionally wrenching production of "West Side Story" is a vivid reminder of the musical's enduring mix of tragic grandeur and streetwise savvy. The post &…
TUTA Theatre Chicago will present the U.S. premiere of French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce's "Music Hall," which will run Feb. 5-March 8 at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee. The production …
The Michael Maggio Directing Fellow is a position named in honor of the theater's Late associate artistic director. The post Marti Lyons named Maggio Directing Fellow at Goodman Theatre appe…
It has been nearly a quarter of a century since Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas created the original edition of "Stomp." And here's the remarkable big bang of it all: This percussion spe…
in Anne Washburn's painfully labored work, "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play," the Simpson family and its various enemies have been envisioned as pivotal characters in the attempted cultural …
Grant James Varjas' play, "Accidentally, Like a Martyr," which looks at the lives of several lonely, troubled men who gather in a gay bar on Christmas eve, is full of bitchy snap, crackle an…
Blind Summit, the British puppet theater company, first brought "The Table" to the stage of Chicago Shakespeare Theater Upstairs in Oct. 2013, and I've been delighting in the memory of it ev…
All of Tennessee Williams' plays deal with the same conundrum: The desperate search for love, the ecstatic feeling of having found it, the resentment faced by those who do find it, and the i…
That much-abused but visionary pinball wizard is back. And you can find him at the ... The post Paramount rocks into dark world of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ appeared first on Chica…