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In the mid-1980s, Broadway tasked country artist Roger Miller with writing the music for a new adaptation of Mark Twain's 1884 novel.
Writers Theatre in Glencoe now has a new artistic director, Braden Abraham.
Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for non-profit U.S. theater, is coming in June 2024.
Deeply dedicated to honoring actual events and revealing human truths, "London Road" has so very much to offer.
The subscription season opens in November with a performance from Deeply Rooted Dance Theater.
"Some Like It Hot," a musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, waltzed away with a leading 13 Tony Award nominations.
"The Porch on Windy Hill" should dial back the lecturing and sloganeering and focus on how music can heal and bring people together.
Herein, you'll find some of Sondheim's greatest songs. I'm going through a bit of an empty-nest crisis, so "Stay With Me" has me at "Don't you know what's out there in the world?"
This hugely enjoyable show is filled with talented kids and helmed by the big-hearted Nick Druzbanski in the role made famous by Jack Black.
The theater opened in 2015 and had a string of notable successes, including the long-running "Southern Gothic."
The show based on the Martin Scorsese film has five lyricists and writers, and it feels like all of the writers got to do their own thing.
"Frozen" the musical onstage at Lake Zurich High School after the Theater Department won a national contest for the rights.
After several years of working to relocate from Lincoln Square to North Lawndale, Theatre Y finally has a new home a block south of the Pink Line's Central Park stop.
When you have actors of the quality and appeal of Laura Linney ("Ozark," of late) and Jessica Hecht ("Breaking Bad"), the two stars of David Auburn's subtle "Summer, 1976," an intimate chanc…
Watching all the kids, many dressed as the Pink Ladies or 1950s rockers, filing into the theater was a fun sight.
The upcoming slate will be performed at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie.
In 1958, the brilliant pianist and humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC's "Tonight" show with Jack Paar.
Jodie Comer, famous for her work on the British TV series "Killing Eve," offers up a stunning performance.
Larissa FastHorse's play, which opened Thursday night in New York by Second Stage, is a funny and cutting piece of work that suffers from its own moral earnestness.
"I had no desire to be involved with a jukebox musical, in terms of rehashing or redoing something."
Victoria Jaiani "swims" through a magical undersea world in the Chicago premiere of John Neumeier's story ballet. Just don't expect the Disney story.
This politically incorrect show is a total blast and one of the very few Broadway attractions where kids are encouraged to talk back to the annoying actors.
Playwright Donnetta Lavinia Grays keeps the focus on the girl tugged and pulled by the adults in her life.
Oak Park resident Meredith plays Isaac Babel, a Jewish writer who keeps a journal in 1920 chronicling the war. That journal reappears 90 years later in the wreckage of a plane crash.
In the small storefront A Red Orchid calls home, the violence of "Is God Is" is always in your face and content warnings are plentiful.
