A LEAGUES OF THEIR OWN You can't keep a bad man down. Especially when he's Captain Nemo, the scourge of the sea. Returning to the watery roots of Moby Dick, Lookingglass Theatre Company laun…
The original Broadway production opened June 3, 1975.
STRINDBERG SET IN SOUTH AFRICA Yes, it's Mies Julie, not Miss Julie, and it's by Yaël Farber, not August Strindberg. And that makes a monstrous difference. Repurposed to depict a differen…
Join the Chicago Jazz Orchestra every Monday in June and July at the Green Mill, [...]
A POWER COUPLE WORTH RECLAIMING Lest we forget two women who long ago shaped their future into our present, witness Bull in a China Shop. Written by Mount Holyoke alumna Bryna Turner, this c…
 Stage 773 Executive Producer Jill Valentine and co-producer Liz McArthur are thrilled to announce that they [...]
 On Tuesday, June 5th, all 160 Renaissance Hotels around the world will unite to [...]
The recently laid off editor of Time Out Chicago reflects on the scene he's covered and the state of arts journalism.
 Experience the bold and future sounds of Latin music at Navy Pier's inaugural LatiNxt Presented by [...]
Michael Shannon, along with other members of the original team behind the 1995 production of "Victims of Duty," will star in a special remount from A Red Orchid Theatre this summer. Written …
As far as I remember, I first saw Rachel Rockwell perform in 1999. The show was director Marc Robin's production of "A Chorus Line" and the venue was the now-defunct Drury Lane in Evergreen …
The season will feature works on the theme of "hunger."
With public trust in the media taking a hit amid constant accusations of "fake news," many news outlets find themselves on the defensive on a daily basis. But there is one publication that c…
The Ride the Cyclone director was tapped to helm the new adaptation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 2019.
Friday "Mies Julie": Farm laborer John and Mies Julie, the daughter of his white master, embark on a sweltering night of passion set against post-apartheid South Africa. Through June 24 at V…
By Douglas Mayo Martin Kemp to join the London cast of Kander and Ebb’s Chicago as Billy Flynn at the Phoenix Theatre from 2 July 2018. This post Martin Kemp Joins The Cast of Chicago …
The Chicago Tribune has reported that one of Chicago's leading directors and choreographers over the past twenty years, Rachel Rockwell, has died at age 49.
Rachel Rockwell, one of Chicago's leading directors and choreographers of stage musicals over the past two decades " and also a rising star on the brink of a major national career in the Ame…
"Empower" will be on stage at Lyric Opera House, Chicago. It is an original opera from the hearts and minds of the city's youth."In this world premiere, a group of South Side youth band toge…
Odysseus is depressed. Home from the war, he stares into his bathroom mirror and quietly bemoans his broken bath, a perfect reflection of how PTSD ravages what should be his return to normal…
EINE KLEINE SWEDISH SOLSTICE Some 40 years after its birth, A Little Night Music feels like it's always been here. Wisely and warmly, composer Stephen Sondheim and writer Hugh Wheeler, borro…
Druid Theatre Company's production of Beckett's most well-known work, produced by Chicago Shakespeare Theater as a part of their WorldStages initiative, begs the question: what exactly are w…
This week we learned that Andrew Scott will appear in a limited run of Simon Stephen's monologue Sea Wall at the Old
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Strictly Ballroom and Chicago are among the new shows announced in the line-up for this year's West