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Saturday night's performance by Thodos Dance Chicago marked the first entry in the Auditorium Theatre's 125th anniversary "Made in Chicago" dance series, and it was impressive on many counts…
Nadia Ezaldein, the 22-year-old woman who was shot and killed by a former boyfriend this ...
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The Paramount Theatre production of “Mary Poppins” may be billed as a musical, but in ...
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This city is about to become puppet-town central. Not only is the Chicago International Puppet ...
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Thodos Dance Chicago will kick off the Auditorium Theatre's 125th anniversary "Made in Chicago" dance series with a program of works that in one way or another are deeply rooted in this city…
The rapid-fire shifts from ferocity to hilarity that characterize this season's Goodman Theatre production of "A Christmas Carol" are evident from the start.
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t is a very good bet that Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the English writer most widely known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, would adore "Lookingglass Alice." In fact, there are moments when, wa…
In "The Testament of Mary," Colm Toibin's fiercely real, intensely provocative, and (as some might label it) heretical one-woman play, the mother of Jesus finally has her say.
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As first speculated here in August, the Chicago Children’s Theater is to get a new ...
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Visceral Dance Chicago, which made a hugely impressive debut here last season, returns to the Harris Theater for Music and Dance with works by such gifted contemporary choreographers as Oh…
For nine decades, the Goodman Theatre has been an esteemed anchor of the Chicago theater scene " at once the granddaddy of them all and a serial innovator.
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“Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Musical) ??? RECOMMENDED ± Through ...
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Santa or Satan? "Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale," a holiday musical about a heavy metal band that makes a Faustian bargain, will not be a threat to Charles Dickens.
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For anyone who failed to see Rachel Rockwell's transcendent 2012 production of "Annie" at Aurora's Paramount Theatre, the national touring company revival of "Annie" that opened Tuesday nigh…
It's generally a very good sign when the band arrives on stage wearing cowboy hats. And when the music they're playing is drawn from the Patsy Cline songbook the deal is all but sealed. Add …
Many theater companies close their doors with a trail of red ink behind them. A rare exception is Theatre Seven of Chicago, which earlier this year announced it would be disbanding, and is n…
Gathering a family around the dinner table for a big meal that is bound to run amok is one of the great conceits of modern theater. And of course the more dysfunctional that family might be …
The Dance Theatre of Harlem is an example of the way something of enormous hope and beauty can be born out of immense pain and tumult.
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Director Jonathan Berry's Northlight Theatre revival of Agatha Christie's classic whodunit is exceptionally smart, subtly dark, hilariously funny, supremely well cast and absolutely airtight…
Chicago theaters and their audiences have been engaging in an intense love affair with the ancient Greeks in recent seasons. And now comes Court's fierce, modern, crystal clear rendering of …
Berwyn's 16th Street Theater has announced its 2015 season and it comes with the umbrella title of "Fathers Daughters Mothers Sons." Featuring three world premieres by three award-winning fe…
The Albany Park Theater Project (APTP), Chicago's widely admired, award-winning, multi-ethnic youth theater ensemble that creates emotionally and artistically rich original works, has announ…
King Louis XIV of France was a great patron of the arts. Not only did he build the Palace of Versailles, but he also had a passion for dance. So chances are he would be quite flattered to le…
At the very same moment Evanston's Next Theatre announced it would be ceasing operation after 34 years, a newly established company, Windy City Playhouse, named the cast for its initial prod…
In his play "The Testament of Mary," Irish writer Colm Toibin imagines "the mother of Jesus" and left behind all the familiar images that for centuries have illustrated "the greatest story e…
