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American Theater Company today announced details for a public memorial for the company’s late artistic ...
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The Gift Theatre may call home an unquestionably intimate storefront at 4802 N. Milwaukee in the city's Jefferson Park neighborhood. But the company has just announced big plans for its 15th…
"Grand Concourse" is Heidi Schreck's beautiful tragicomedy of life, love, faith, work, aspiration, failure, truth, lies, rebirth and that whole crazy stew we refer to as "humanity." And it i…
Mike Kosinski knows he's one lucky guy. The actor and comedian, who co-stars in the new "Impastor" series (debuting at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on TV Land), moved to Los Angeles " after getting a…
By Catey Sullivan | For the Sun-Times It's won six Tony awards since it first ...
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1. COUNTRY BBQ The annual Windy City Smokeout takes place July 10-12 at 560 W. ...
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The Chicago Dancing Festival today announced the full repertoire for the 9th annual extravaganza, taking ...
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Chicago is something of a second home for the work of Stephen Sondheim, the genius of Broadway, now 85 and still at work. So "A Sondheim Celebration," part of this summer's Grant Park Music …
After seven seasons, The Music Theatre Company (TMTC), the Highland Park-based professional theater dedicated to ...
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They meet cute, as kids, in Atlantic City. The year is 1952. Cee Cee desperately craves an audience, and Bertie can only be dazzled by this child who is bursting with such talent and moxie. …
In Martin Sherman's "Bent," a play that became something of a "cause celebre" when it debuted in London in 1979 with Ian McKellen in its central role, it is the plight of those forced to we…
1. LIGHT UP THE SKY Celebrate Independence Day with fireworks at Navy Pier, 600 E. ...
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Talk about perfect timing. On the very day of President Obama’s formal announcement regarding the ...
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Cyndi Lauper came to the phone on the morning of June 26th, at the very moment that the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision making same-sex marriage a right nationwide. An…
It's back: The Hypocrites is now performing its revised remount of "All Our Tragic" - director Sean Graney's awe-inspiring 12-hour adaptation of all 32 of the surviving ancient Greek tragedi…
Is Anton Chekhov rolling over in his grave in the Moscow cemetery where he was buried in 1904, at the far too young age of 44? Or, having caught wind of Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Soni…
"Gotta Dance," the new Broadway-bound musical with a Chicago tryout this winter, has announced its cast.
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To what extent are the personalities and relationship histories of your parents indicators of your own trajectory in life? Is their behavior imitated, sometimes to disastrous effect? Or is i…
Chicago Tap Theater, founded in 2002 by dancer-choreographer Mark Yonally, can spin a story in a way few other dance or theater companies can match. Innovative, richly musical and character-…
The results are in! The readers and critics of the Chicago Reader weigh in on ...
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American Theater Company today announced that its upcoming season will honor the legacy of the ...
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Samuel L. Jackson, in town filming Spike Lee's "Chiraq," was spotted dining at Gibsons Rush Street steakery Monday night, while director Lee himself was seen next door at Hugo's Frog Bar.
Th…
Museums are no longer just about what hangs on the walls or rests in glass cases. Performance has become a major element in their programming, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art has be…
Ayad Akhtar, the Milwaukee-bred writer of Pakistani heritage who received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Disgraced," a work about Muslim-American identity, is not an entirely subtle …
Lookingglass Theatre's world premiere production of "Moby Dick" is a triumph of grand theatrical imagination, deep thought, superb acting and the most ingeniously deployed physical daring. S…
