What happens when the one and only Bill Murray recites American literature and flexes his pipes on songs from the great American songbook, backed by three accomplished classical musicians at…
Everything in Robin Thede's career has been building to this moment. On Thursday, her weekly show "The Rundown with Robin Thede" will enter the fray of late-night TV comedy when it premieres…
The U.S. premiere of the Cuban theater company Ludi Teatro has been cancelled, the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance announced Tuesday. Part of the first Chicago International Latino Theater F…
The celebrated dancer, actor and director Mikhail Baryshnikov will perform in the Chicago premiere of "Brodsky/Baryshnikov," the Cherry Orchard Festival announced Tuesday. Baryshnikov will s…
Lycanthropes, rejoice. (You know how to rejoice, don't you? Just throw your head back and howl.) There's a werewolf story prowling Mayslake Peabody Estate in a DuPage County forest preserve,…
Music Theater Works has announced its 2018 season. First up is Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" (June 9-17). Cole Porter's classic musical "Anything Goes" (Aug. 18-26) follow…
If there was one thing that the great American playwright Arthur Miller hated above all else, it was sanctimonious moral absolutism. "This is a sharp time, now, a precise time," says the ins…
"The human head is least scary when attached."Demetri Martin is a person. He is a person who tells jokes, which makes him a comedian. As evidence of these two claims he has recorded stand-up…
As the empire of the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein seemed to collapse this weekend amid a barrage of published allegations of sexual misconduct, there was quiet uneasiness among New York's li…
"The Audience" âœâœâœ The longevity of the British monarchy " as manifest for the last 64 years in the personage of Queen Elizabeth II " is at the center of Peter Morgan's pla…
Is Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" the most important novel ever written? Probably. Dostoevsky and Harold Bloom both thought so. No "Don Quixote," no Dickens. Maybe no Netflix, given all …
The marriage of music and dance is what Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre is all about. And though it's a dance company, this group's fall series "Alone/Together" relies as heavily on the creative…
Disaster plans are an excellent idea for families " does yours have one? " and, of course, for media organizations that must stand ready for the periodic all-American horror shows like the L…
At one point in "Motown the Musical," which you might reasonably define as the authorized and sanitized version of "Dreamgirls," Diana Ross (well, not the real Ross, but the character) walks…
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," which knocked me for six in London, is about to make profound and lasting changes to the commercial theater industry on this side of the Atlantic. Even m…
There is so much complexity and beauty to Tarell Alvin McCraney's play "Choir Boy," a gorgeous evocation of history, hope and pain, that you find yourself aching for a more complex, fluid an…
Dawn King " the author of a disturbingly dystopian dramatic parable that I've not been able to shake from my mind since Monday night " is one of the hottest new names in British playwriting …
The relationship between psychiatrist and patient offers a wealth of dramatic possibilities. You've got the power dynamic between an authority figure and a person whose fate may well rest in…
Saturday "The Crucible": Steppenwolf for Young Adults presents Arthur Miller's Salem witch trials-set allegory. Through Oct. 21 at Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.; 312-335-1650 and …
"Reimagining classical Indian dance for modern times." I must have written that description a dozen times, about a dozen different works over the past few years. But pulling apart a thousand…
Singer and actress Orfeh is headed back to Broadway in "Pretty Woman: The Musical," Broadway in Chicago and producer Paula Wagner announced Tuesday. The Tony Award nominee will reunite with …
The prolific monologist Mike Daisey will return to Chicago next month to perform three new shows about present-day America, Theater Wit announced Tuesday. The three plays, titled "This is No…
This week's Showcase features a song from Kokandy Productions' Chicago premiere of "Bonnie & Clyde." In the video, Desiree Gonzalez, who stars as one half of the infamous duo, sings the Fran…
The ABC sitcom "Bewitched," which ran from 1964 to 1972, was, at first glance, formulaic. The setup was yet another version of the stranger-in-a-strange-land structure that long has been a s…
Broadway in Chicago announced its complete 2018 season lineup Monday, including its subscription series and off-season specials. As previously announced, subscribers will see two pre-Broadwa…