A blizzard notwithstanding, the stark change in weather couldn't have been more perfect for Lifeline's production of "Leaf," a children's story not only about being different but also about …
April marks milestones for dance companies from Chicago and beyond.
Depending on your mood and disposition, the magical ending of this play might make you roll your eyes. But I always find it moving, and more so now in a time of so much anger and bitterness.
Without question, "La bohème" has been the opera most performed at Lyric Opera over my decades as a critic.
Teatro La Plaza's "Hamlet" is nearly entirely about the actors themselves, framed by the playwright's agitprop on their behalf.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic late eighteenth century biting satire of the idle rich is given a fresh reboot.
The theme of the spring performance series at the Museum of Contemporary Art is "Lineages." Gutierrez speaks about how the work fits into his ongoing investigation of how art helps us naviga…
Themes of isolation and sexuality combine with light body horror in "Pussy Sludge."
Esho Rasho writes and stars in "Dummy in Diaspora," the one-man show presented by Jackalope Theatre through March 23 at Broadway Armory Park. Rasho plays a host of characters, but mainly Ess…
Longtime collaborators Sara Hook and David Parker have full schedules in separate cities. But the two still find time to creatively connect, and bring an evening of short dances, new and old…
The fifty-seven-year-old Opus One of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice is getting an amazing Technicolor facelift.
In writer and director Jake Steelman's "David & David," playing now through April 5 at Lakeview's Annoyance Theatre, David Byrne of Talking Heads fame plays the roommate of Twin Peaks au…
"I and this mystery here we stand." This quote by nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman is a good summation of "I and You," a play by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Scott Shallenba…
Jeff Ross has been touring the nation telling the story of how roasting has helped him deal with the loss of his grandfather, his most beloved comedian friends and his dog in the one-man sho…
In choreographer Maggie Vannucci's "Grit," running March 6-8 at Steppenwolf's 1700 theater, dance isn't just an art, it's an endurance sport.
Here's some advice: Go see "Titus Andronicus" at Redtwist Theatre. It's a shocking, energetic and muscular version of Shakespeare's earliest tragedy, filled with gore, excellent stage violen…
First performed in 1985, "A Lie of the Mind" is a three-act play that acts as the closing chapter for a quintet of Shepard plays that explore the breakup of the modern family.
Yoke the oxen. Hunt for buffalo. Avoid dysentery! Prepare for a Wild West adventure in "Kitty James and Destiny's Trail to Oregon," a raucous comedy based on the classic "Oregon Trail" compu…
Audiences will laugh, gasp and feel the sting of this challenging material. Although the new year has barely begun, "One Party Consent" is already a must-see highlight of the season.
March dance highlights
Brookelyn Hébert's portrayal of Henrik Ibsen's celebrated femme fatale is an old-school, eyeball-grabbing star turn, one that every theater lover will relish.
Some might be expecting to see given that Broadway in Chicago's signature genre is musicals, this is a non-singing "Clue: On Stage." For this new, believe it or not, national tour incarnatio…
Time itself is the great betrayer, revealing who and where we really are.
Gwydion Theatre's pared-down, gripping production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Greenhouse is a homecoming of sorts: oddly enough, the play premiered in 1882 in Chicago, in an auditorium…
Sadieh Rifai is a playwright to watch and this is a play worth seeing. A little trimming and shaping would make it better.