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The final curtain came down Sunday on New York's production of "The Phantom of the Opera," ending Broadway's longest-running show.
"Supreme Love" was Jumaane Taylor's first major, full-length project and it remains a talking point in the dance world.
"Phantom of the Opera," Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved musical about love, obsession and a mysterious masked person, is closing on Broadway after 35 years.
This is as moralistic a musical as you've ever seen, going far more in that direction than did the Alanis Morissette album.
This is the chilliest "Camelot" you ever did see, and embodies many of the current neuroses surrounding the revival of classic American musicals.
If the playwright can let the character who so fascinated her take center stage, she'll have something truly of note.
In playwright James Ijames' eye-popping play, a malcontent named Juicy is chilling in his North Carolina backyard when his recently deceased dad pops up out of his patio grill.
Also on tap during the five-show subscription season on Halsted Street: "POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive."
Anton Chekhov's play, as adapted by the director and performed by many of Falls' favorite actors, is everything I had hoped it would be. Everything and more.
The show roars with life throughout: there's a sense of pent-up energy and a kind of raw, vulnerable intensity.
There was something apt about the opening of the national tour of "A Soldier's Play" in Chicago on a night when the city elected its third Black mayor.
Like an episode of "Hee Haw" written by Mel Brooks, the timely new musical "Shucked" opened Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre with more gags than every other current Broadway show put…
Court Theatre plans a shorter, four-show slate.
This storied jazz dance company knows how to mark a milestone, and it's had more chances than most.
The stage show uses huge puppets that are walking examples of the single greatest innovation in puppetry ever to hit the stage.
The multi-Tony Award-winning Broadway classic "Damn Yankees" will be performed April 12-June 4 at the Marriott Theatre.
The play is much more than a crime drama, it sheds light on the history of segregation and racism in the U.S. Army and broader American society.
"People get funny in their old age. It turns out this is a great town to be old and funny in," Dana Olsen said of Practical Theatre's return.
The Goodman's 98th year has many tantalizing highlights, including a new show created and performed by the actor Dana Delany.
The play raises important questions but is less successful in its attempt to capture the human cost of striving for utopia.
Invictus Theatre Company was also a big winner. The nominated season included 106 shows opening between July 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2022.
This must-see production lets Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's gothic revenge story do its thing, without reinvention.
Opera's future needs more than its past. Lyric Opera's world premiere "Proximity," a stimulating mashup of three different one-act works, is Chicago's latest proof.
Kyle Abraham's short solo "Show Pony" is the choreographer at his best, delivered by a dancer at the pinnacle of her career. And I could watch "Busk" again and again.
Bad is right. Why did Andrew Lloyd Webber choose to spend time on this?
