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"The Twenty-Sided Tavern" is an interactive entertainment, a live version of "Dungeons and Dragons," where the audience can guide the game.
Its story is now more a fable of a broken family that needs to be put back together, a theme that also was in Cameron Crowe's film.
"We deliver a story, say what happened," say some who don German uniforms at Rockford's annual World War II Days. But some historians and Holocaust experts say that kind of reasoning can be …
In many ways, the play is a critique of bureaucratic power structures, endlessly empowered with putting people into Kafkaesque limbos.
Director Henry Godinez' new production opens in a freewheeling 1950s Havana playground of Cuban artistes and the Hotel Nacional.
In a way, the evening is about cultural exchange, as dancers from 14 African nations perform a German choreographer's dance about a Russian pagan ritual.
This play is drawn from his 2020 memoir, from his 1960s youth as the son of a Guinness barrel maker.
An FBI special agent, known for her skills in profiling serial killers, returns to her small Florida town.
The famed improv comedy institution iO Theater is reopening Nov. 3, according to an announcement Wednesday.
For all the sadness in this work, it's also humanistic and celebratory of diverse individuals, all under different kinds of stress.
This story about human connection across differences provides a hopeful, aspirational glimpse at our better selves.
The Berwyn-based Equity company with a 15-year history has begun its last show.
I have to report, in all fairness, that much of the audience around me was convulsed with laughter throughout the whole affair.
Other musical titles for the upcoming year include the Huckleberry Finn adventure "Big River" and the '80s bash "Rock of Ages."
Suzan-Lori Parks' play is a phenomenal two-brother drama, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century.
This complicated play moves backward and forwards in time, probing not just the story of Seacole but the whole question of how we view those who heal us.
Brett Neveu specializes in plays that perplex the audience and many of them have been staged in his creative home on Wells Street.
Actor Sean Hayes attended the joyous ceremony at the Drury Lane Theatre. Other top winners included A Red Orchid's "The Moors," Teatro Vista's "Somewhere Over the Border" and Porchlight Musi…
Rebecca Gilman's extraordinary new play deserves the broadest possible audience; it deserves a Broadway run.
This longtime Chicago company's fall program is specifically curated to highlight works from the past two decades.
The one-night-only, concert-style performance at the Cadillac Palace brought back Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Bible.
Two-hander plays starring Latinas are having a moment in this year's Destinos Festival.
In the original poems, Eve Ewing connects the events of 1919 subsequent racially charged events, ranging from the murder of Emmett Till to George Floyd protests.
The play stars Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson and is directed by the actor's wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
In a major hire for the Glencoe theater, Braden Abraham was previously artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
