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Comedy icon Carol Burnett will bring her live show back to Chicago, it was announced Monday. Burnett will take the Chicago Theatre stage June 12 for "An Evening of Laughter and Reflection," …
"1980 (Or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson)" âœâœâœ "1980 (Or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson)" is a highly enjoyable and unpredictable world premiere by Patricia Cotter, now…
When Candace Chong Mui Ngam's "Wild Boar" premiered in Cantonese in the playwright's native Hong Kong in 2012, the South China Morning Post described the play as "exploring how urbanites rea…
Need a musical theater break before turkey basting and giving thanks? This week's Showcase features both Billy Elliots from the hit Porchlight Music Theatre production singing that Elton Joh…
The Chicago Tribune, it was announced Nov. 17, will be leaving its namesake tower on Michigan Avenue in the second quarter of 2018 after a run of 93 years. The stage set will remain. But the…
Chicago comedy figure and Sketchfest founder Brian Posen has announced he is "stepping down as Creative Director of Stage 773" after a decade at the helm of the Lakeview performance venue. P…
Chicago's big downtown theaters are humming with eclectic fodder for the holiday weekend: Budgets and stamina permitting, you can choose from "Hamilton," Jimmy Buffett's "Escape to Margarita…
Attention, residents of Whoville! It's that time of year again. And while we know you're busy with your snoof and your fuzzles, your tringlers and trappings, don't forget to take time out to…
What should you be doing for your holiday entertainment pleasure? Let's ponder a little of the old, the new and the shifting sands of seasonal change. Some old favorites are expanded, moved …
In the early 1620s, a couple of aging actors named Henry Condell and John Heminges set about the task of publishing, in a single, bound volume, all of the plays of their late and beloved pal…
Friday "This Way Outta Santaland": Mitchell Fain reminisces on his eight years as Crumpet the Elf in this holiday offering. Through Dec. 23 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave.; 773-975-8150…
In the moist, all-American burg of Big Cherry " the setting for the new Tracy Letts play "The Minutes" " the rambling and esoteric agenda of the town council is filled with the patter of par…
As long as Hollywood has hired playwrights from New York or Chicago, which is as long as there has been Hollywood, these transplanted, bought-and-paid-for scribes have written plays about th…
Take the football culture of "Friday Night Lights," mix it with the supernatural clamminess of "The X-Files," and strain it through the satiric/horror filter of "Get Out," and you're close t…
In 2002, an actor, a dancer and a martial artist started a fusion hip-hop contemporary dance company. It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke, but one's got to wonder if Illinois State Univ…
"1980 (Or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson)" âœâœâœ "1980 (Or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson)" is a highly enjoyable and unpredictable world premiere by Patricia Cotter, now…
Friday "The Book of Will": Shakespeare's company stages the First Folio in this Chicago premiere by Lauren Gunderson. Through Dec. 17 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; 847-67…
There's a scene in "Lady Bird," this fall's remarkable coming-of-age movie by Greta Gerwig, where the title character, a complicated Sacramento 17-year-old encapsulated by Saoirse Ronan, fin…
Peninsula Players, Wisconsin's mainstay resident summer theater, announced its 2018 season Thursday. Opening the season is Sean Grennan's "Now and Then" (June 12-July 1), a world premiere ab…
"Work is a dirty word out here," says the charming, guitar-strumming, Jimmy Buffett-esque central figure of the new musical "Escape to Margaritaville," a "Mamma Mia!" for Parrotheads. This s…
After Donald J. Trump became president of the United States " which, you may recall, actually was a massive surprise to most of us " the amount of analytical bloviating about the reasons for…
Over the years, especially Stateside, Oscar Wilde's fin de siecle satire "The Importance of Being Earnest" has been turned into more of a hootenanny, replete with Lady Bracknell played in dr…
Wondering what to get your favorite theater lover this holiday season? Read on for my 10 suggestions for 2017. (Chris Jones)
"I find ecstasy in living," wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson, "the mere sense of living is joy enough." So let us begin with that, dear reader, let us just let that sentence lie there…
For those who grow sick and tired of being sick and tired about patriarchy and its abuses (so much in the spotlight in recent weeks, but never out of the picture), Pegasus Theatre Chicago ha…
