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Ensemble Español is preparing for "Flamenco Passion," part of a week-long Spanish dance and music festival.
"American Idol" vocalists Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young are the stars. Nostalgia is a powerful force in the theater but it relies on more truth than this musical currently delivers.
"The Magnolia Ballet" bills itself as a ghost story, and it's certainly an immersive, gothic tale of the Old South, a place where, for a young gay Black man, the walls are howling and wailin…
It took a while to get here, but this wonderfully gaudy ballet is finally open and getting its due.
We often go to the theater to feel we're not alone in our fears. Here's that opportunity with unexpected revelations to boot.
Over the years, its most memorable and acclaimed productions included "The Sparrow," "Death and Harry Houdini" and the show through which it shot to fame, "The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan."
Molly Hernández is a newcomer to the role of Alice and a delightful addition, given her charming personality and warm, guileless demeanor.
Productions through the years by House Theatre of Chicago.
Lookingglass Theatre Company's summer 2022 production of "Lookingglass Alice."
The Motown group known as The Temptations navigated a truly stunning repertoire of musical styles over a 62-year history.
Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire has hired internally for its top two management positions, the longstanding North Shore venue has announced.
The show co-stars "American Idol" alumni Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, and features a cast of Chicago theater veterans and newcomers.
Having just won a Tony Award, Court Theatre delivers with a blisteringly entertaining new Ron OJ Parson production.
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced 52 grants to Chicago and Illinois organizations, totaling $2,172,510, as part of nationwide grant-making this week.
Brian Quijada transforms this tale into a different kind of American story: that of a young woman from El Salvador making the dangerous trek to the United States.
Early in Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's classic, young Scout Finch starts telling us about the courtroom in fictional Maycomb, Alabama. She does so with the reverence of a child w…
Sarah Sherman often performs under the name Sarah Squirm, and squirm is exactly what she's known to make her audiences do.
It's worth noting that Chicago has four new musicals trying out this summer, all shooting toward Broadway.
Court Theatre becomes the first Chicago theater to win the award in more than a decade.
Court Theatre in Hyde Park
Coming to Chicago this summer, the North American musical tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar."
DanceAfrica returns, plus Rhythm World, Dance for Life and a new Joffrey ballet on Navy Pier.
Lloyd Suh's play "The Chinese Lady," now in its Chicago premiere, has a spectacular central performance from Mi Kang.
NPR's weekly hour-long quiz program will resume live audience recordings this June, hosted by Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal.
The current play opened in New York in 2018 and became the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history.
