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The Tony Award-winning Chicago theater appears to have entered another deeply unstable period.
Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city's flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back.
Parodies work better with honesty, but this world premiere based on the 1953 science fiction movie is still great fun.
The tour of the 2018 revival of "My Fair Lady," a romance-less romantic comedy, arrives in Chicago.
The Greek god Dionysus appears in the Garden State in the guise of Diane, a lesbian permaculture landscape gardener.
Madeline Sayet moved to England in 2015 to pursue a doctorate degree in Shakespeare, a journey that led her to question her identity and place in the world.
Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city's flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back.
If "The Play That Goes Wrong" had a raunchier older sister, it might look like "A Fine Feathered Murder."
This charming musical at Theo Ubique is musical director Jeremy Ramey's swan song.
Most Tarell Alvin McCraney's plays are more metaphoric, "Choir Boy" is closer, really, to the movie "Moonlight." This is a four-star play, now in Chicago.
The tour features Shereen Ahmed as Eliza Doolittle and Laird Mackintosh as Professor Henry Higgins.
Alice blames herself for her father's death. She wishes she had not had that last fight. And in the talented Britta Johnson's creation, she needs to know more about his death.
She's as much a comedy improviser as a magician and now she has a bigger stage to make her signature cocktails appear, vanish and morph into other libations entirely.
Lucy Darling magic show "Indulgence" opens new Rhapsody Theater in Rogers Park. The building used to be the Mayne Stage.
After more than two years in the COVID-19 wilderness, Chicago's Steep Theatre is back in action and with a new theater and free tickets to boot.
Writers Theatre in Glencoe has announced a four-title 2022-23 season, including productions of Manual Cinema's "Christmas Carol" and the musical "Once."
"Life After," a new Canadian musical at the Goodman Theatre, is all about grief.
Fluids drip everywhere in "cullud wattah," the potent new drama by Erika Dickerson-Despenza about the contamination crisis of Flint, Michigan.
Joseph Bologne, the son of a Senegalese woman and her French enslaver, was nothing short of a Parisian celebrity in his time. This is his only surviving opera, and it's great fun.
Haymarket Opera's "L'Amant anonyme" at Jarvis Opera Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center at DePaul University.
"Steel Magnolias" has returned. It's a shrewd comedy and a blast from the past, and director Johanna McKenzie Miller doesn't mess with what works.
The 75th annual Tony Awards were presented Sunday by the American Theatre Wing at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The winners are ...
Michael R. Jackson's "A Strange Loop" earned 11 nominations. Will that translate into 11 wins? What about "Girl From the North Country"?
The new mainstage revue at Second City, "Do the Right Thing, No Worries If Not," invites the audience into the fun.
"Grandmas Jukebox" is a legit, original jukebox musical replete with dialogue scenes, fully-fledged characters and a dramatic through-line.
