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The theme is not about physical borders. Rather, the creative voices here are thought to be boundary-breakers.
It's an ironclad rule of comedy that you have to keep your big toe in the world of truth, which wasn't the case here.
Two couples settle into side-by-side suites, only for one half of each pair to discover that their ex-spouse is staying next door.
The west suburban theater's next season also is slated to feature "The 39 Steps" and "Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash."
By really showing what it is like to fight the decay of your own mind, their principal ally is Maryann Plunkett, playing a woman fighting to recover her own memories and offering up as rich …
Arthur Miller would surely have been delighted at the idea of a revival of his masterful play with an all-Black Loman family. It only intensifies the story.
This new, Broadway-bound musical is now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie.
In this production of the much-loved Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, they are open to the charge of bait and switch.
The 63-year-old sketch comedy operation, headquartered throughout its history in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, plans to open a theater in New York City.
Come Tony Awards time next spring, the committee is going to have an issue.
Congo Square Theatre and artist Brandon Breaux reach out through art to help the Black community heal from racialized violence.
Eventually, it becomes clear that the source of their conflict is that both mother and daughter are trying to protect one another.
Martyna Majok's resonant, prismatic play from 2018 has now landed on Broadway in New York.
This brilliant work is set in the same room in Vienna but sprawls across decades and generations as it follows two affluent Jewish families connected by marriage.
If you're a Hubbard Street fan you'll notice more new faces than familiar ones " just five of the 15 dancers on the roster have more than a season under their belt.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presents its fall series at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
They were handed out buttons in the lobby of the Nederlander Theatre: "I've seen 'Wicked' (blank) times."
The curtain rises on Glinda, Elphaba and this beloved musical once again, looking and sounding in 2022 as supersplendiferous as ever.
The series is co-created by Chicago's Jeremy McCarter, co-author of official books on Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" and "In the Heights."
"Clyde's," a lively comedy by Lynn Nottage directed with an ebullient theatricality by Kate Whoriskey, is inestimably clever.
This show, formerly by Teatro ZinZanni, has always been what you might describe as a glamorous night on the town. And the fabulous Frank Ferrante is back.
Upcoming shows include "Big Fish," "Gypsy" and "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown."
Remarkable things happen in the cramped basement of the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park. What a thrilling Chicago-style musical!
Remarkable things happen in the cramped basement of the Chopin Theatre in Wicker Park. Enter Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Lindsay Joelle's two-person show "The Garbologists" is courageous enough to probe the intersection of race and class.
