11,648 stories from Chicago Tribune
Congo Square Theatre's latest production, "How Blood Go," centers on the bias found in the American health care system.
Maurice White's life forms the spine of Daryl Brooks' "Reasons: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire," the new show at Black Ensemble Theater.
After a prolonged silence, the board of directors posted two open letters on the theater's website.
This 1928 composition really never goes out of style, and as long as corruption, hypocrisy and virtue signaling remain a constituent part of human behavior, it never will.
Like many revivals of entertainments from that time, "Dancin'" lands in a kind of uneasy middle ground between past and present, old ways and new.
The founding artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater might possibly direct a show here or there in retirement, but the production that opened Thursday night on Navy Pier is the end …
The new revival, which stars Ben Platt in the title role, is a more of an explicit indictment of Southern Republicans.
J'Nai Bridges and Charles Castronovo are the central lovers, telling a rich and densely layered story.
The secret sauce of jukebox musicals is they can roll back time. We get to hear Tina Turner at the height of her powers.
Stephen Sondheim's much-anticipated final musical, "Here We Are," will premiere in September at the electric New York venue known as The Shed.
Rajiv Joseph's play is a lot like watching 50 separate plays and then trying to put them in the right order in your head.
Chicago's Lyric Opera billed the season as a "global tour of opera featuring a richly curated slate of musical events in six different languages."
This first full production has vibrant characters, lots of funny family comedy, a delightful central performance from Becca Khalil.
Experiencing the fascinating new revival of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is not unlike listening to a podcast.
Mahogany L. Browne's novel is now in a world-premiere adaption at Steppenwolf, full of beautiful language.
This is the New York-based company's annual pilgrimage to Chicago, a tradition that stems back 55 years. Chicago is woven into its fabric.
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance has announced its 20th anniversary season in Millennium Park.
The Chicago company's 68th season also includes, of course, a holiday return for "The Nutcracker."
Naomi Rodgers and Zurin Villanueva lead the North American tour of the biographical jukebox musical, arriving at the Nederlander Theatre in March.
This touring cast shows more affection for these characters and for material that always was progressive,
Rosenkranz, who grew up in Mexico and sometimes performs shows in Spanish, is no frenetic, over-polished magician.
People often end up marrying somebody they meet by chance, say on a train or a park bench, and they then spend years wondering whether the encounter was really random at all.
"The Kelly Girls," in its world premiere at The Factory Theater, is a politically charged family drama that takes place during the early years of the Troubles.
Like the 2007 film, "Once" uses a couple (an Irish street musician and a young, Czech immigrant mother) who are always on the edge of a relationship.
Sharyn Rothstein's gutsy play is well cast and sharply staged, with its urgent question right there in the title.
