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"He was the godfather of the working Chicago actor," said Barbara Gaines, former artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Those who know jazz masters Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn will be whisked away by this "Nutcracker" set in 1930s New York.
Joffrey Ballet stage managers Mandy Heuermann and Katherine Selig bear the ultimate responsibility for every light cue firing on time, every prop piece placed where it needs to be and every …
Across the country during the pandemic, nonprofit theaters lost their audiences and were forced to cut staff. Not at the Goodman Theatre.
Paulson is on fire all night long, torching not just anyone sharing Second Stage with her " including Elle Fanning " but half of the open-mouthed audience.
More than a handful of the year's highlights leaned hard into storytelling, including the Joffrey's "Little Mermaid" and "Frankenstein."
This was an especially fine year for musicals but over the last 12 months, I've also admired everything from revivals to daring new plays.
Now staged in its new theater on Lincoln Avenue, this holiday show based on the Jimmy Stewart movie has gathered an audience that would follow it anywhere.
Mysteries and thrillers like this one are having a sudden, surprising renaissance in Chicago theater.
Some eight years after its London bow, the "Harry Potter" stage play is coming to Chicago next September, and sticking around.
This new musical focuses on a group of real, young, neurologically atypical persons in Columbus, Ohio, all preparing together for their prom.
Led by artistic director Michael Pink, the Milwaukee Ballet's status among the nation's top-tier ballet companies is firmly sealed now.
I admire the way director Danny Kapinos' production is willing to trust the audience with this 1960s musical.
"The movement allows you to hear the music in a new way, and the music allows you to see the movement in a new way."
The relatively unknown Jasmine Amy Rogers turns in an astonishing performance at the heart of "Boop! the Musical" in its pre-Broadway opening, directed by Jerry Mitchell.
Everything this longtime British magician does on stage is rooted in personal storytelling " there's an uncommon warmth and openness amid all the illusions and deception.
This is a contemporary folk tale inspired by the music and sounds of Scotland, earlier seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Americans love "Nutcracker" because it's an unwavering treatise about dreams coming true.
Playing a single woman visited by the ghost of Elvis, Brenda Barrie apparently has decided she is doing Eugene O'Neill and proceeds accordingly. She's very funny, too.
Few titles command the affection of "The Wiz," and the show's most fabulous songs, including "Ease On Down the Road," have been sung now for close to 50 years.
Frances Sternhagen, the veteran character actor who won two Tony Awards and became a familiar maternal face to TV viewers later in life in such shows as "Cheers," "ER," "Sex and the City" an…
"A Christmas Carol" urges us to open our hearts to our fellow passengers through this life. May even the most cynical among us take heed.
Park Ridge 11-year-old Leighton Tantillo is playing Ebenezer Scrooge as a child, as well as Peter Cratchit, in the Goodman Theatre's "A Christmas Carol."
After spending a boozy hour in Cindy Lou Who's trailer, you'll never again see the classic Dr. Seuss tale the same.
The impressive new two-theater complex will stage the upcoming "It's a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!," slated to open on Dec. 10.
