The House Theatre of Chicago has pursued a 12-year love affair with the famously warring Hatfields of West Virginia and McCoys of Kentucky. This Chicago theater, known for its innovative ori…
The German equivalent of the crime of the century took place on March 31, 1922, on a small farm in rural Bavaria. On that night at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead, the farmer, his wife, their wi…
"All My Sons" âœâœâœâœ In an extraordinarily intense and emotional production of "All My Sons," now at Court Theatre, director Charles Newell approaches Arthur Miller's great…
There's a Broadway story about "The Lion King." Julie Taymor, the conceptualist genuis, first wanted, in Act 2, to take Simba and his crew to Las Vegas. After they picked their chins up off …
In Dee Rees' superb movie "Mudbound," which scored four Academy Award nominations on Tuesday but not its deserved best picture berth, there is a flashback sequence wherein a young United Sta…
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble announced the remainder of its 2018 season Thursday. Opening in the spring is "The Cake" (April 11-May 20) by Bekah Brunstetter. Lauren Shouse will direct the time…
"Do you remember the Mariel boatlift?" asks playwright Rogelio Martinez over a bowl of tomato bisque on a damp Tuesday. "That was me." At the time of the mass exodus of Cubans from the port …
A new Broadway musical will be based on "Tootsie," the 1982 Hollywood hit from Columbia Pictures about a struggling actor who disguises himself as a woman to secure a role on a soap opera, o…
Rainn Wilson will star in the world-premiere production of Matthew-Lee Erlbach's "The Doppelganger (An International Farce)," Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced Wednesday. Wilson is set t…
Saturday "Women in Jeopardy": In Wendy MacLeod's comedy presented by First Folio Theatre, a group of friends suspects one of its members is dating a serial killer. Through Feb. 25 at Mayslak…
Not only was every seat taken at the Pride Arts Center Sunday afternoon, but also so many tardy people were trying to squeeze into the former North Broadway speakeasy that a couple of gentle…
"Cal in Camo" at the intimate Rivendell Theatre begins with a new mother, Cal, sitting in a kitchen and desperately trying to overcome a loathed and invasive device and pump milk from her br…
On the surface, children's birthday parties are loud, joyous affairs. But if you've had a child, or been a child, you know how fraught they can be. They provide us with some of our earliest …
The State Ballet Theatre of Russia, a professional company of 55 dancers touring the U.S. with a collage of full-length classical ballets, stopped in town Sunday for two performances of "The…
If you like the films of Noah Baumbach or the plays of Annie Baker, and if your favorite movie of 2016 was "Manchester by the Sea," I suspect you'll really appreciate "Five Mile Lake," a tho…
Eclipse Theatre Company, known for dedicating each season to one playwright, will produce three plays by William Inge in its upcoming season. In the spring, Rachel Lambert will direct "Natur…
Attention broken-hearted lovers of Elvis! A new live show, co-produced by Authentic Brands Group and Elvis Presley Enterprises and penned by one of the creators of "Million Dollar Quartet," …
"I've just come from the Women's March," said an Arthur Miller-loving friend whom I'd run into in the lobby of the Court Theatre on Saturday night. "And now, look, here I am at 'All My Sons.…
"Beautiful " The Carole King Musical" âœâœâœ 1/2 Chicago actress Sarah Bockel plays the lead in the current national tour of "Beautiful," the jukebox musical that celebrates t…
The Gift Theatre has announced the cast of Stacy Amma Osei-Kuffour's world-premiere drama "Hang Man." The production will feature ensemble members Paul D'Addario, Gregory Fenner and Martel M…
Actor Jose Ramos took an Uber to Palos Hills Tuesday to fulfill a promise to meet with about 130 choir and drama students at Stagg High School. During an hourlong question and answer session…
"She the People," a new revue featuring five women, with the subtitle "A Girlfriends' Guide to Sisters Doing It For Themselves," arrives at Second City even as the unfettered new mainstage r…
Casting is complete for Theo Ubique's "Sweeney Todd," the Rogers Park company announced Friday. Philip Torre will star as Sweeney with Jacquelyne Jones as Mrs. Lovett. The production will al…
David Peter Reimer, who shot himself in 2004, was a Canadian man whose penis was damaged beyond repair when he was a baby during a medically necessary circumcision gone terribly wrong. A psy…
Ivonne Coll, the film, TV and stage star who currently plays Alba Villanueva on "Jane The Virgin," will lead the cast of Teatro Vista's Chicago premiere of "The Madres," the company announce…