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For its production of "The Herd," a comic play by Roy Kinnear, Steppenwolf Theatre will be staging something of a company reunion.
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The sheer mind-boggling logistics involved in the seamless world premiere production of "Mementos Mori" " the masterful piece by Chicago-based Manual Cinema that opened to a packed house Thu…
Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced additional casting for its upcoming production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel," set to run April 10-May 3. Jenn Gambatese, who starred as Maria i…
That Alfred Hitchcock classic, "The Birds," has no doubt been perched in your consciousness for years. But "A Map of Virtue," Erin Courtney's strange, subtly haunting 90-minute psychological…
The award-winning actor Anthony Crivello, whose varied credits include everything from playing Valentin in the ...
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"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," the Broadway hit that received the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical, will launch its 44-week national tour in Chicago, playing Sept. 29 - Oct. 11 at…
During the past year, director, educator and filmmaker Kirsten Kelly has reaped the rewards of many years of work that in one way or another is connected to her intense relationship with tha…
Ken Prestininzi's "Cookie Play," now in its world premiere at Trap Door Theatre, is such a repellant and predictable piece of political claptrap that the temptation was not to write about it…
The road is lengthening. The Steppenwolf Theatre production of “Airline Highway,” Lisa D’Amour’s Broadway-bound play ...
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The Hypocrites, the theater behind such recent marathons as "All Our Tragic" and the rotating repertory of Gilbert & Sullivan adaptations, has announced casting for the two final produc…
Chicago actress Jennifer Coombs is replacing Robin Weigert in "Rapture, Blister, Burn," the play that begins performances Jan. 17 at the Goodman Theatre.
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The 2015 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, founded by Blair Thomas, will showcase 20 different productions by a wide array of artists to be presented on a dozen different stages…
"The Color Purple" is returning to Broadway in the fall of 2015. And Chicago-bred Oscar and Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson will make her Broadway debut in the role of Shug Avery.
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"Newsies" musical broke a box office record in Chicago.
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After an absence of more than a year, actress Kate Fry will return to the stage as part of the cast of Northlight Theatre's production of John Patrick Shanley's "Outside Mullingar."
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The hit musical "Once" is returning to Chicago in June.
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Court Theatre has announced a power cast for the world premiere of "The Good Book."
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The four plays being showcased in Pegasus Theatre Chicago's 28th annual Young Playwrights Festival may be the work of current or recent Chicago area high school students, but it would be a b…
The one-man show written and performed by Ronald Keaton " which became a big hit at Chicago's Greenhouse Theater Center last year " is headed to New York.
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The three actresses (Faith Prince, Christine Sherrill and Carmen Cusack) who will star in "First Wives Club, The Musical" the Broadway-bound show that will have its Chicago tryout Feb. 17 - …
Broadway is the strangest and least predictable of all the world's stages. The latest proof of this maxim is exemplified by the fate of Sting's new musical, "The Last Ship," which debuted in…
In conjunction with its production of Lisa D'Amour's New Orleans-themed play, "Airline Highlway," Steppenwolf Theatre will host a free, Big Easy-themed EXPLORE event in its Garage Theatre on…
As might be expected, not every piece is a jewel, but there are plenty of semi-precious stones in this little theatrical necklace.
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The work of John Hughes, the film director (and Chicago native) who helped define the youth culture of the 1980s in such wildly popular movies as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club," "W…
There was something in the way she moved. But just as importantly, there was something ...
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