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Rusty Schwimmer will star in the return of the Chicago classic "Hellcab," the Agency Theater Collective announced Friday. "Hellcab," once a staple at the now shuttered Profiles Theatre, will…
In a major cooperative effort by the city's leading producers of ballet and opera, the Joffrey Ballet and Lyric Opera of Chicago announced Friday that the dance company will move its season …
Patricia Barretto has been appointed the new president and CEO of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, effective immediately, the board of trustees announced Friday. Barretto was named in…
After a massive loss by the struggling Chicago Bears " such as the 29-7 drubbing last Sunday by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers " the "Bears Coaches Show" on WBBM Newsradio turns into "Groundhog Da…
Friday "The Legend of Georgia McBride": In this Chicago premiere, a broke Elvis impersonator with a baby on the way finds a new life in drag. Through Oct. 22 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skok…
Citing the loss of revenue due to the impending end of its multi-year contract with Norwegian Cruise Lines, Second City laid off at least four full-time staffers Thursday. This has been a ch…
A quiz for you: Which Chicago venue is the host of the following A-list attractions in October? One week of tapings of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah." Stephanie Miller's "Sexy Liberal Res…
Like a pimply adolescent morphing into clear-skinned maturity, Navy Pier is slowly transforming itself from a hyper-commercialized shopping mall-by-the-lake into an appealing public space. T…
Regardless of what an amphibian may or may not perceive, I know this: An expansive and beautiful new theater in Chicago is a glorious thing that boggles the eyes. The Yard, which hosted its …
Lookingglass Theatre Company announced complete casting for its 2017"18 season Wednesday. "Hard Times" (Oct. 4-Jan. 14), adapted and directed by Heidi Stillman, will feature Audrey Anderson…
Using your socially connected friends and acquaintances as models for your fictional characters often leads to blowback. Just ask Truman Capote, who became an outcast when excerpts from his …
Jackalope Theatre Company has announced the cast of the world premiere of "1980 (Or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson)," the opener of the company's 10th season. Patricia Cotter's play, abou…
"A play is rarely given a second chance," Arthur Miller once wrote. He who was right about so many perils of the human condition was wrong about that. To wit: Director Ivo van Hove's despera…
Over its 40-year history, Chicago's Hubbard Street Dance has continuously expanded the constraints of contemporary dance and embraced theatrics. If you've seen the company in performance rec…
I've always found the guards in museums at least as interesting as the exhibits. How intriguing are those silent sentinels of the gallery, as sphinxlike as Secret Service agents but charged …
Did a 16-year-old housemaid named Grace Marks kill her lecherous employer and his housekeeper in 1843? Or was the impoverished Irish immigrant to Canada merely the stablehand's unwitting acc…
For nearly eight years, "Million Dollar Quartet" packed the intimate Apollo Theater in Lincoln Park. The story of the fabled night that four giants of popular music all turned up in Memphis'…
The PrivateBank Theatre at 18 W. Monroe St. will soon have a new name and marquee, Broadway in Chicago announced Monday. Following a June acquisition, the PrivateBank, where the Chicago prod…
A small but enthusiastic crowd assembled at Skokie's North Shore Center for the Performing Arts for Visceral Dance Chicago's fall offering, the official season opener for the fledgling compa…
When Chance the Rapper asks the question "Is you is or is you ain't got gas money?" in his song "All Night," he nods to the legacy of the great songwriter and bandleader Louis Jordan. Jordan…
Early 2009 seems like a lifetime ago " a point when the inauguration of the first African-American president signaled that, while racism was far from over, it at least couldn't keep all our …
A vista of the pressures faced by Disney Theatrical Productions fills the lobby of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Hundreds of bubbly children and unabashed adults dressed as Elsa…
"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…
The Factory Theater announced its 25th season of world premieres, along with the company's new co-artistic directors, Thursday. Opening the season is Mike Ooi's "Captain Steve's Caring Kingd…
Sandwiched between the 1980s teen-angst comedies of John Hughes and the famous-for-being-famous post-millennium reality television antics of the Kardashians, the kids of "Beverly Hills, 9021…
