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Congo Square Theatre Company announced its 18th season Wednesday. Opening the season is the return of the holiday concert "A Nativity Tribute," produced in partnership with Studio One Dance …
Goodman Theatre announced casting for its 2017-18 season openers Wednesday. Opening the season is Ivo van Hove's revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" (Sept. 9-Oct. 15) in the …
In May of this year, Edward Albee's 1962 classic "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" became controversial all over again, when the late playwright's estate withheld the rights for a planned pr…
The Boss is coming to Broadway " but he's ditching the E Street Band. Bruce Springsteen said Wednesday on his website that he plans to make his Broadway debut onstage this fall at the Walter…
Reality television has come in for more than its usual share of shaming as a blight on the body politic since November " though in fairness, populist entertainment throughout history has bee…
Barbara Cook, whose shimmering soprano made her one of Broadway's leading ingenues and later a major cabaret and concert interpreter of popular American song, has died. She was 89. Cook died…
Casting is complete for the pre-Broadway tour and Broadway premiere of the new Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical "Escape to Margaritaville," it was announced Tuesday. Paul Alexander Nolan, who s…
Idina Menzel mooed as the performance artist Maureen in the original production of "Rent" in 1996 and, ever since, Broadway audiences have mooed back. Over the past decades, Menzel has won o…
"On Your Feet!" will conga its way back to Chicago next spring, Broadway in Chicago announced Monday. The Broadway musical based on the life, music and cultural phenomenon created by Gloria …
A comedy show might not seem like the ideal place to solicit relationship advice, but Sunday night at Park West " which is the most romantically inclined of Chicago's comedy venues, if anyon…
At one point in "The Food Show," the new and original production by the Neo-Futurists about the complexity of your average urban progressive's relationship with what they put in their mouths…
"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…
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and as a counternarrative to our present Summer of Intolerance, "Hair" has sprung up in the friendly confines of the Mercury Theater i…
William Petersen is joining the cast of the much-anticipated new Tracy Letts play "The Minutes," Steppenwolf Theatre announced Friday. Also added to the cast are ensemble members Kevin Ander…
Thomas Middleton, whose co-authored 1622 play "The Changeling" was the most compelling and timely show I saw at the Stratford Festival of Canada this summer, wrote about lusty sex, crude mal…
Seven months after stepping off a plane at Midway after relocating from Denver, comedian Basil Faraj took the stage on a Thursday night in front of a sold-out crowd in the backroom of Cole's…
When the news of the great Sam Shepard's death was released Monday, my first thought was that here came the natural bookend for the "in yer face" era, which increasingly is out of favor in a…
This week's Showcase features magician Brett Schneider, whose one-man show "Communion" opens this weekend at The Den Theatre. In the video, Schneider is joined by RedEye editor Sade Carpe…
Porchlight Music Theatre announced the cast of "Billy Elliot" Wednesday. The cast of the Tony-winning musical will be the largest in Porchlight's history. Jacob Kaiser and Lincoln Seymour w…
Three Chicago actors will appear in the Broadway premiere of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," the record-breaking two-part addition to J.K. Rowling's world of wizards. Alex Weisman, Jess…
Buckle up, Buttercup " there's a new "Princess Bride" in town. Well, actually " she's not new. And she's not a princess. But Thomas Heywood's 16th-century swashbuckling romance/comedy, "The …
Following productions in London, Hong Kong and Edinburgh, the beatboxing show "Gobsmacked!" is coming to Chicago, Broadway in Chicago and producer and creator Nic Doodson announced Tuesday. …
Mariann Mayberry, a self-effacing but essential Chicago actress whose work embodied the city's ensemble ethos and whose emotional intensity on stage seared many a Chicago heart, died f…
American Theater Company announced complete casting for its 33rd season Tuesday. The cast of the premiere of Janine Nabers' "Welcome to Jesus" (Oct. 26-Dec. 3) will include Taylor Blim as Di…
This week's Showcase features a romantic duet from the Marriott Theatre's production of "The Bridges of Madison County," the Jason Robert Brown musical based on the 1992 best-selling novel. …
