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Perhaps something terrible befell America in the middle of the 1980s. A self-inflicted wound from which the nation has yet to recover: Healthy enterprise, the marriage of capital and labor, …
Chicago musical theater divas E. Faye Butler and Felicia P. Fields will perform together in a new cabaret concert "Lettin' the Good Times Roll," Steve Abrams and Kicky Productions announced …
Friday | "Captain Steve's Caring Kingdom": The puppets in a children's TV show come out to play in this not-suitable-for-kids show at the Factory Theater. Through Dec. 9 at the Factory Theat…
"Without 'Newsies,' nobody knows nothing." Darn right, Jack Kelly. More power to ya', and to all the boys of the only Disney musical in the history of the world to venerate collective bargai…
Griffin Theatre Company announced the cast of "Violet" Wednesday. "Violet," the 1997 Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley musical about a disfigured woman who heads south with hopes of transform…
So William Petersen, once William L. Petersen, venerable Chicago actor, maestro of the Remains Theatre, bon vivant, actor's actor, decadelong star of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," whatch…
"Medea: The Musical" sounds more like a "Forbidden Broadway" parody than a serious endeavor. Murderous moms " even ones that killed their brother for their husbands, forsook their exotic hom…
Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth said the Chicago area has been a "second home to me over all these years." Chenoweth played the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan last month and is sch…
When we first meet Sam, one half of the potential love match at the heart of Rohina Malik's "Yasmina's Necklace," he's arguing with his parents over his name. He has changed it for the usual…
Did you vote for John B. Anderson in 1980? If you were of age and followed the advice of this newspaper, which endorsed the moderate congressman from Illinois in the Republican primary over …
Virago is a term typically used to describe women " heroic, strong and courageous to some; shrewd and overbearing to others. In either interpretation, the word implies a transgression of gen…
Tavis Smiley will bring "Death of A King: A Live Theatrical Experience" to Chicago in January, it was announced Tuesday. Based on Smiley's best-selling book, "Death of A King" combines live …
Get out your gloves and grab a hot chocolate. A play about seasonal workers selling Christmas trees will open in December " in an actual Christmas tree lot outside of Uncommon Ground in Edge…
The enthusiastic manifestation of unexpected ecstasy occurs often in playwright Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play," a droll exploration of the early days of electrified de…
Lin-Manuel Miranda will make an appearance in Chicago at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, it was announced Monday. The "Hamilton" creator is slated to speak at 11 a.m. W…
Giordano Dance Chicago's two-night fall series at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance opened over the weekend with the 2005 "Giordano Moves." Created just three years before founder Gus G…
A sleep-deprived woman heads into a Brookstone. "What about a demo of this white noise machine?" says the African-American salesman, miming turning it on. "I don't have one black friend, I h…
Cast members from the Chicago production of "Hamilton" will "Rise Up for Puerto Rico" this Monday at the Greenhouse Theater Center. Spearheaded by Jose Ramos, a Chicago Academy for the Arts …
"All artists," says Andrew Lloyd Webber, in the middle of a long and frank chat with the Tribune, "are insecure about everything." Interesting, coming from the most commercially successful t…
When David Henry Hwang penned the damning and beguiling "M. Butterfly" in 1988, meaningful explorations of the issues of gender assignment and identification were as invisible on Broadway as…
"Amarillo" âœâœâœ "What are you staring at?" asks a woman from the stage in "Amarillo," a reflective, 70-minute production from Mexico City's distinguished Teatro Linea de Som…
Does the financial compensation received by an actor affect the quality of the show you are seeing? That's a fascinating question " with many minefields waiting for anyone who tries to come …
The majority of Equity acting jobs across Chicago theaters are going to men, white performers are often paid higher salaries than performers of color, and women are paid less than men on com…
Larry Yando will take his tenth turn as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 40th year of "A Christmas Carol," the Goodman Theatre announced Wednesday. Returning cast members in the Dickens' holiday trad…
Casting is complete for the national tour of the Tony Award-winning play "The Humans," Broadway in Chicago and producers Scott Rudin and Barry Diller announced Tuesday. The production, lead …
