11,648 stories from Chicago Tribune
"Everybody needs something impossible to hope for" sounds like an inspirational sentiment you'd find embroidered on a throw pillow. But cozy domesticity and its accouterments have little to …
The Australian Ballet announced Monday that it has partnered with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago to develop a new ballet based on Leo Tolstoy's famously passionate "Anna Karenina." The parter…
"I suppose I gotta marry somebody," says the sardonic Young Woman of Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," sounding like she's acquiescing to a death sentence. "All girls do." The office-bound, mos…
A Red Orchid Theatre announced a new associate artistic director, development director and audience services manager Friday. Ensemble member Shade Murray will serve as the theater's first as…
A 21-year-old magician from Kentucky once found himself at the legendary Magic Castle in Los Angeles, where a man named Eugene Burger was performing. The visiting illusionist was inexperienc…
Wednesday's heavy summer rain left the Chicago sidewalks steaming as guests filed into the new Defibrillator Gallery space in Noble Square, just a few blocks southwest of the gallery's longt…
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion," tweeted the 44th president of the United States in the aftermath of white nationali…
"I was pretty much the first comic to play this club," comedian Emo Philips said early on in his playful and loose hourlong set Wednesday night at Zanies in Chicago. That's no joke. Philips …
"Aladdin" âœâœâœ "Aladdin," the most frenetic and cartoonish of Disney's screen-to-stage musicals, officially opened its first national tour in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace …
Summer has brought several hits " and extensions " to the Chicago theater, allowing you still to catch some fine artistic experiences before the cares of the fall intrude. Steep Theatre's su…
The Neo-Futurists' 2017-18 season will include three world premieres by Kirsten Riiber, Trevor Dawkins and Lily Mooney, the company announced Wednesday. The first Prime Time production will …
Like any genre, non-fiction films rely on tropes. At the Annoyance Theatre, "Life in 35mm: An Improvised Documentary" aims to satirize "popular, self-important documentaries and the characte…
When Keith Elliott, Todd Kiech and Harriet Ross presented the first Dance for Life in June 1992, Chicago's dance community was in crisis. Friends and colleagues were dying at alarming rates …
Dick Smothers, one part of the famous comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, will appear in iO Theater's Chicago Musical Improv Festival this weekend. Smothers will appear as the guest monologist…
Goodman Theatre announced the lineup of its 14th annual New Stages Festival Monday. Featuring three weeks of developmental productions and staged readings, the free fest runs Sept. 20-Oc…
On a sunny Monday afternoon in Lakeview, a man bikes by Chicago Bagel Authority and a woman walks into Walgreens. Someone wearing a tie-dye Lollapalooza T-shirt crosses the street. At 959 W.…
"Aladdin" âœâœâœ "Aladdin," the most frenetic and cartoonish of Disney's screen-to-stage musicals, officially opened its first national tour in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace …
The Sexy Liberal Resistance Tour will make a Chicago stop this fall, it was announced Friday. The political-protest-as-comedy show features national television and talk radio host Stephanie …
This week's Showcase features a song from Disney's "Aladdin," now in its final weeks at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Jacob Dickey, who stars as the loveable street rat who wins the he…
No need to wait for it. The official "Hamilton" app is here. The HamApp, sure to please fans of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Founding Fathers phenomenon, is available now for iOS and Android devices…
In 1994, an actor named John Lecesne created a solo show in New York City. He ended up starting a movement and saving the lives of uncounted American teenagers. This is the story of Trevor. …
Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced the all-woman cast of "The Taming of the Shrew" Thursday. Set in 1919 Chicago during the Suffragette movement and featuring additional dialogue by Ron W…
Saturday "Shockheaded Peter": Black Button Eyes Productions presents the return of the musical based on a German children's book about youngsters headed toward grim fates. Through Sept. 16 a…
The complete lineup is set for the first Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, a month-long event opening in Chicago this fall. Presented by the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance, the…
What irritates you the most about buying tickets to live entertainment? Let me guess. Booking fees. New York producer Ken Davenport " who is an interesting thinker on the business " had an i…
