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"My Brother Langston" truly shines when the spotlight is on Langston Hughes' own words.
The Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project will present a free night of dance with standout companies including Muntu Dance Theatre, Red Clay and Deeply Rooted.
MSG announced Thursday that it is considering spinning off its theaters and live entertainment business to create a separately-traded company.
Actors and audience members take a three-mile journey through the streets of North Lawndale in Theatre Y's "Laughing Song: A Walking Dream."
This fall, approximately 10 dancers will be the first cohort of contemporary ballet trainees with the Joffrey Ballet.
If you don't know this beautiful memoir musical, it's based on a graphic novel by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, growing up in the 1970s in a small Pennsylvania town.
With a savvy sense of the moment, TimeLine has a salacious comedy about the blistering 1934 fight for California's governorship between Republican Frank Merriam and author Upton Sinclair.
Chicago Dancers United's Dance for Life is back at the Auditorium Theatre, raising money to help Chicago's dance community stay healthy.
As heavenly as the return to strength of Canada's Stratford Festival feels, hell is very much a thing in the Ontario farmland this year.
The reason Lauren Weisberger's memoir became famous was not just because of the juicy movie with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It's because Weisberger could see that the thirst for power …
Salazar died at her Chicago home Aug. 3. She is remembered as "an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime, super arts activist."
The names aren't included here and don't matter a jot for the point I am making. Chicago theater needs to be a community again.
There's too much talent at the Mercury Theater to make everyone sing to a canned backing track in "Priscilla Queen of the Desert."
This production, choreographed by Drew McOnie, really should get its shot on Broadway, especially given what Aaron LaVigne is doing.
Susan Booth is to take the artistic helm at the Goodman Theatre, replacing Robert Falls, who is stepping down after 35 years.
The nostalgic period drama by Ken Ludwig is based on the real-life romance of his parents, who wrote to each other for three years during World War II before meeting in person.
"The Kite Runner" on Broadway is based on the beloved book, but the story doesn't work as well on the stage as it does on the page.
At the play's heart are a flawed patriarch straining against an inequitable society and resilient family members fighting generational trauma.
He took the stage in a tuxedo and boomed in his carnival barker cadence, but considering the size of the audience and squirminess that followed, it felt subversive.
The reopening for this storied youth theater borrows from "Feast," "Home/Land" and others, scenes staged with music.
The movie comes from the early aughts, when the world was a different place. "A lot has changed," Elton John says. The musical "Devil Wears Prada" opens first in Chicago, with Broadway next.
Given that he won a Tony Award for "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," Simon Stephens' support of Steep might seem an act of altruism. But not really. Steep has given Steph…
At various point in this show, the woods represent adventure, abandonment, ungrateful children, sexual betrayal, worry, pain and, of course, death.
The crisis at Victory Gardens Theater deepened Friday as the company canceled all of its upcoming performances of "cullud wattah."
Felicia Pearl Fields, a Chicago treasure, sure can sing the blues. Now she has a show fully worthy of her talents.
