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Chicago is seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or dance.
Chicago is seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or dance.
Chicago is seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or dance.
Chekhov comes to a factory floor, plus four other shows not to miss this January.
Manual Cinema has taken the perilous path of adaptation, mixing a contemporary American storyline with an authentic period telling Dickens' tale. Its "Christmas Carol" brings magic, and a ma…
Cameron Esposito has spent more than a decade making a unique splash in Hollywood, not only as one of the outest and proudest LGBTQ+ comics around, but also as a successful actress on major …
Frederking has been capturing lightning in a bottle for over three decades, portraying, as he puts it, "dance artists at the moments when they are fully present with the energy of live perfo…
Paramount Theatre's Midwest regional premiere production of Disney's "Frozen: The Broadway Musical" is a must-see magical spectacle this holiday season.
Drury Lane's "Disney's The Little Mermaid" is a lively homage to a treasured movie of childhoods and a warm addition to this holiday season of Chicago area theater.
For the past three years, the troupe has been making waves on the current comedy scene with its monthly variety shows that combine stand-up, improv, sketches, music, audience-interactive gam…
A new adaptation by Lauren Gunderson, premiering at Northlight Theatre, avoids the sentimental piety that mars some versions by using more language from Alcott's astonishing book.
The Joffrey Ballet's annual holiday-time "Nutcracker" extravaganza, that revered tradition, offers so much"but it also raises the question, How much is too much?
"& Juliet" will delight the casual theatergoer with its glitzy, rock concert aesthetic, tongue-in-cheek plot and world-class singing and dancing.
In Mula's rendition of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," we hear the events of that Christmas Eve from Marley's perspective. Scrooge's partner in life, now dead, is no longer relegated t…
For the past thirty-five years, comedian Maria Bamford has been the guiding light to making hilarity out of hellishness, putting her own battles with OCD front and center in her acting and s…
"Dames at Sea" is campy, goofy and rushes through Broadway tropes, but will leave you with a smile on your face and a song in your heart.
To draw together Chicago's diverse and at times fractious tap community, Mark Yonally of Chicago Tap Theatre and M.A.D.D. Rhythms founder Bril Barrett created the Chicago Tap Allstars"an umb…
The show doesn't shy away from the ground swell of sadness, but it also reminds us of just how many things there are to live for. I can't imagine a better time to stage this play.
Lots of family-friendly fare for December, and that's not even including the million or so Christmas plays.
The winter wonderland is here with the holiday spirit and a lot of Nutcrackers!
Canadian comic Steph Tolev will bring her high-energy, anything-goes, raunchy and raucous performance to Zanies Comedy Night Club.
"The Secret Garden" is healing: If you come into this show like Mary, cross and wounded, you may come out warm and blooming.
This co-production balances gravity with hilarity in a still relevant story of an unorthodox family grappling with their individual and collective identities and relationships.
"Blue" is a powerful and moving new work deeply rooted in the continuum of operatic tradition.
This wordless "Hamlet" makes its debut in the States at the Harris Theater November 23 and 24, the first stop in its North American tour.
