Hamilton Sets Closing Date in Chicago
The Tony Award" and Pulitzer-winning musical has played the Windy City since September 2016.
The Tony Award" and Pulitzer-winning musical has played the Windy City since September 2016.
The Chicago production of "Hamilton" will close Jan. 5, 2020, the Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller said in an interview with the Tribune Wednesday evening. The date of closing is not a surpr…
FRIDAY "La Havana Madrid": Sandra Delgado's play with music about a legendary Chicago nightclub in the 1960s is back for another run. Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave.; www.thedentheatre.c…
A FRACTURED FAIRY TALE Shakespeare's strange romance, which begins with gratuitous jealousy and ends with gratuitous forgiveness, is best savored as a fairy tale for grownups: A virtuous que…
KEEPING ROCK REAL Letting a good thing go is a hard fate: Change is always constant but it's never guaranteed to be good. A tough transition in Chicago's indie rock scene is feelingly chroni…
During the airing of this week's FosseVerdon episode, Lin-Manuel Miranda was joined by Jonathan Groff and Laura Benanti, for his weekly watch party.
In the days leading up to Memorial Day, Chicago traditionally has more theater openings than at any other time of the year. And 2019 is bringing an especially bumper crop of marquee spring a…
This week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth watches Fosse/Verdon with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andréa Burns, shares stories from their In The Heights days, and more.
"Considering this city's black thumb when applied to grass roots dance companies, I feel a compulsion to fly some zeppelin blimp over the Dance Troupe's home at 1725 N. Wells St." Given Chic…
Broadway In Chicago Broadway is delighted to announce there will be a digital lottery and [...] The post Broadway In Chicago Announces <em>FOUR CHORDS AND A GUN</em> Digital Lott…
Tactfully drawing out the ethnic tension and socio-political context in which it was born, Lyric's production evinces the perpetually incisive quality of this iconic musical.
Fresh off of baking around the country as the original Jenna in the national tour of Waitress, multi-talented star Desi Oakley joins the long-running Broadway hit Chicago at the Ambassador T…
The Waitress alum takes on the role of Roxie Hart in the long-running musical.
On next week's episode of FX's FosseVerdon, Bob is pulled between multiple projects, and he and Gwen begin rehearsals for Chicago, but the mounting pressure may prove too much to bear.Can't …
Fresh off of baking around the country as the original Jenna in the national tour of Waitress, multi-talented star Desi Oakley is headed into the long-running Broadway hit Chicago. Oakley wi…
Cut a rug, hit the floor, dance like nobody's watching " never mind that you're on an open-air dance floor in downtown Chicago, surrounded by a gazillion people on a summer night in Grant Pa…
Chicago announced today that actress Desi Oakley will join the Broadway production in the role of Roxie Hart for six weeks of performances at the Ambassador Theatre
Most Broadway tours are like those old mimeograph machines: the more times they're toured, duplicated and recast, the more the quality fades. So why is "Chicago the Musical" different? I fou…
The Waitress alum will play Roxie Hart in the long-running musical.
FRIDAY "Rent": The non-Equity cast has changed, but this 20th anniversary touring production of Jonathan Larson's musical was last in Chicago at the then-Oriental Theatre in 2017. Nederlande…
Call it advertising or call it art. Three Chicago installations with nighttime projections are coming this month to three different city locations, thanks to the new Cirque du Soleil show "V…
Cott and Mikaela Bennett lead the cast as Tony and Maria, respectively, in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production.
This latest tour feels musty, with the performers going through the same old Bob Fosse-inspired motions.
In celebration of outstanding achievement in high school musical theatre performances, Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to [...] The post Broadway In Chicago Announces <em>Eighth …
Donna Marie Asbury talks about her legendary 21-year run in Chicago, why it's time to leave the Windy City, and what she learned from Hal Prince and Jerome Robbins.