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Success came to Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann not with a whimper but with a bang.
It is a blending of two Gorey stories -- "The Headless Bust" and "The Haunted Tea-Cosy" -- that have been adapted by Sean Graney and directed by Halena Kays in ways that are giddily playful …
For all the awards and almost universal acclaim Tony Kushner's two-part stage epic "Angels in America" earned over the last decade or so, Kushner never considered it perfect.
Mark Rylance, artistic director and leading actor with London's Globe Theatre, has a great deal to feed upon as he prepares to play his role in the company's production of Shakespeare's "Twe…
Abiding by her doctor's orders, actress Julie Harris, who has been in frail health since suffering a stroke several years ago, has decided to withdraw from her planned return to Victory Gard…
It appears "Dr. Sex," the zesty new musical comedy about fabled sex researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey -- which has been attracting enthusiastic crowds since it opened here at Bailiwick Repertory in September -- will soon be dancing to Broadway.
Uh huh.
With Heather Headley, Karla Burns, Larry Hamilton, Billy Porter, Andre De Shields and Dick Hyman.
The first thing you notice about K. Todd Freeman are his eyes.
There are probably better sources to base a musical on than the macabre, mysterious and murderous books and drawings of Chicago-born Edward Gorey.
"Cabaret" with a female emcee.
Mel Brooks loves to talk about "The Producers."
The young Simba is one energetic cub the way 12-year-old Alex Bass plays him in Disney's "The Lion King," now at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in the Loop.
As Mary Zimmerman demonstrates in "The Secret in the Wings," her altogether spellbinding, visually captivating and surprise-filled tapestry of rarely told European fairy tales, these often s…
Charles Michael Moore, a multifaceted theater artist who worked extensively at Chicago's eta Creative Arts Foundation, as well as with the Black Ensemble Theater, Congo Square Theater Compan…
The man who performed the most sensational solo number in the history of musical comedy is dead.
Elia Kazan, who presided over a revolution in American acting and directed films that won 20 Academy Awards, died Saturday at 94.
Now 75, and still as full of energy and vinegar as ever, Albee is about to be feted with a six-week retrospective of his work on both stages of the Goodman Theatre.
