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How can summer end without our annual celebration of exciting new talent blossoming before our eyes in Chicago theater? The Hot New Faces, Class of 2017, photographed by Tribune photojournal…
"Saturday Night Live" has been auditioning performers this month, as it does every August, with an eye to adding people to its cast and writing staff. A number of Chicagoans have flown out t…
Drury Lane Theatre announced its 2018-19 season Tuesday. First up is Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical "South Pacific" (April 5-June 17). Next up is Tennessee Williams…
A lot of would-be satirists think the core of the art lies in the viciousness of the attack or the bona fides of the attacker. But withering social satire actually is a linguistic art form. …
Saturday "Bonnie & Clyde": Kokandy Productions stages the Chicago premiere of the musical about two infamous outlaws. Through Oct. 15 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave.; 773-975-8150 and k…
When Victor Alexander was preparing for the next phase of his career, gradually reducing his stage time as a performer in Hedwig Dances and dabbling with choreography, he never imagined he w…
The British monarchy " as manifest for the last 64 years in the personage of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II " has survived the republicans and the democratic imperative for three prin…
In its second year, Collaboraction's Peacebook Festival shares some commonalities with the now-defunct Sketchbook Festival, presenting an exhaustive display of short, multidisciplinary piece…
When a play premieres, it feels fresh and crisp, like a new pair of jeans. But living in those "jeans" for a while sometimes yields an entirely different production by the end of the run. Ac…
The Steppenwolf Theatre announced Friday that it will host a public memorial this fall, in celebration of the life and work of the late Martha Lavey, its former artistic director. The free e…
Chicago magician Dennis Watkins will be on an upcoming episode of "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" on the CW Network. He'll be doing a bit of magic he also performs in his long-running Chicago magic…
There are 29 miles of Chicago lakefront, a strand of sand and concrete and grass and trees that hug the shore so stylishly that seen from afar it appears to be some abstract necklace. Not lo…
The popular "Ham4Ham" ticket lottery is changing its rules for the Chicago production of "Hamilton," following in the footsteps of a similar new procedure in New York. In place of the previo…
Near the start of "Prince of Broadway," the long-awaited musical celebration of a theatrical director of incomparable productivity, range, longevity, chutzpah and brio, an actor pops out and…
On Monday, even as the fatally fractured political universe was poised to tremor once again, the moon passed before the sun and a Chicago meteorologist cried viral tears. Strange times, thes…
A Red Orchid Theatre, the 25-year-old mainstay of Old Town and the theatrical home of actor Michael Shannon, is amping up all kinds of things " like the budget, the staffing, the programming…
Sunday "Still Dance the Stars": New Light Theater Project and Chicago Dramatists present a new play about a married couple that enlists relationship help from a carnival stuffed animal. Thro…
Randall Arney, the former artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles who was dismissed in February after 17 years at the theater, filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the Geffen of…
The Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace will not just host Chicago's 2017 Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards on Nov. 6. On that night, the long-lived suburban musical house will see itself li…
Your next shot at scoring "Hamilton" tickets is coming up next week. Producer Jeffrey Seller and Broadway In Chicago announced Wednesday that a new block of tickets for the Chicago productio…
Kristoffer Diaz's "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" caused a bone-shaking, brain-tickling sensation when it premiered nearly nine years ago at Victory Gardens. It transferred to off-Bro…
The Second City's "She the People: Girlfriends' Guide to Sisters Doing it for Themselves" will open this fall at UP Comedy Club. The new sketch comedy show, created, designed and performed b…
The Stratford Festival of Canada, a longtime summer favorite of Chicago theater fans, has announced its 2018 season, which will mark Robert Lepage's Stratford directorial debut with a social…
Victory Gardens Theater announced complete casting for four productions in its 2017-18 season Tuesday. As previously announced, "Fun Home" (Sept. 19-Nov. 12), featuring music by Jeanine Teso…
It has been 16 years since "Shockheaded Peter," the cultish British "junk opera" created by the Improbable Theatre and the Tiger Lillies, was first seen at the Athenaeum Theatre. Last time, …
