Not only is Rebecca Finnegan hands-down the best Mrs. Lovett I've ever seen -- and I'm not excepting Angela Lansbury or Patti LuPone here -- but every aspect of the production is ideal, from…
In the wake of his remarkable performance in "I Never Sang for My Father," John Mahoney has assumed another monumental role, and in his depiction of a man for whom the stage is everything, y…
Tracy Letts returns to acting in "The Dresser."
The reporter is fumbling. He's itching to ask playwright Annie Reiner whether the troubled father-daughter relationship in her new drama -- "The Family Gold," which opens Monday at Victory G…
Call it the globalization of Chicago theater.
When "Sunset Boulevard," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, opens tonight at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, it will mark the first time that the show has been seen in any version other …
It was a very good year. And if you had even the slightest doubt about that, just a quick glance at the list of Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for the 2003-2004 theater season could easi…
Interview with Michael Cerveris.
Jesse and Mac, the working stiffs in Steven Dietz's play "Foolin' Around With Infinity," report to work a quarter-mile below ground in Utah, where they help protect America's ever-growing nu…
Conservative critics have managed to get the touring comedy show "Puppetry of the Penis" banned in Boston, but they've struck out in Chicago.
Interview with Sam Harris.
"Victory Gardens will be participating in the profits as the creator of the original production, and will be receiving weekly royalties," said Leavitt, who has been a producer of the transfe…
Jerome Robbins was among that elite group of Broadway geniuses who can truly be said to have shaped the American musical theater.
Once a theater company becomes "an institution" -- with a full-time production schedule, a loyal and (hopefully) expanding audience and a permanent staff and board -- a certain hamster-wheel…
Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth was part operatic diva, part Broadway baby and part timid homebody....