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What do Little Orphan Annie, Bob Fosse, "Les Misérables," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Little Shop of Horrors" all have in common?
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano's evening-length dance that both honors and stylistically upends the famous Spanish story and French opera standby returns to its hometown.
First Floor Theater takes a taboo subject and handles it with tact and grace and humanizes those who are inhumanely objectified and commodified.
New York playwright Jay Stull manages to craft an ingeniously twisty, provocative meditation on artificial intelligence that takes the form of a play within a play within a darkly mysterious…
You might think of this month as "bookended."
A musical comedy adapted from a 1930s era play and movie, "On the Twentieth Century" involves a hard-on-his luck director with one last card up his sleeve.
GFP is a nonprofit that produces performances, programs and workshops for queer and trans artists with a focus on organizational sustainability, equitable pay and intersectional collaboratio…
Whether it's communal experiences or intimate performances you seek, June dance has you covered.
Race, religion, finance, family, love… the show addresses all these subjects and handles them with care, tact and with hints of comedy.
Lifeline Theatre's new production of "Native Son" is brutal, powerful and relentless. Like a big, stiff drink, it hits you right in the gut, and you leave the theater reeling.
Among many impressive things about this show, chief is the way it designates when characters are speaking English and when they are speaking Farsi. It's a simple, clever premise that leads t…
It is obvious that the elements and talent are in place and that the potential is there for this to become a really killer show. Maybe by Broadway.
PARA.MAR founder and artistic director Stephanie Martinez picked the name to upend it, pushing back on broad-stroke conceptions of Latin culture.
"Black Sunday," written by Dolores DÃaz and presented by TimeLine Theatre, explores the lives of a small family struggling to live in a turbulent wasteland.
Holmes is back on the road for "The Feelin' It" tour, his first since pre-pandemic times, and is performing an entirely new hour at the Den Theatre.
City Lit is advertising its season-closing production of "Murder in the Cathedral""which is director and outgoing producer and artistic director Terry McCabe's last"as "the first full produc…
Performative intensity is a good thing, but it's not enough to carry a play. We see this clearly in "Turret," a show with too much heat and not enough light.
The needs of the many versus the actions of a few is addressed in playwright Juan José Alfonso's "An Educated Guess."
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's spring series at the Harris Theater, entitled "Of Joy," features several remounts. There will be one piece new to Chicago eyeballs: the company premiere of Joh…
Absurd black humor and poignant biographies merge to create the image of a cult that is as fun as it is comedically dysfunctional. Will you drink the Flavor-Aid? I lived to write about it, b…
"Into the Earth With You" begins in 1999 following the passing of "Grandad," a historian who raised his three granddaughters in a mountainside cabin with tough love and a firm hand.
"Panther in the Sky"Â shines a light on the debilitating effects of gun violence on families.
Under-plotted, more static than flowing, anticlimactic and sometimes over the top, "The Thanksgiving Play" is not a polished work of theater. But it is a powerful provocation, a real booby t…
With the abundantly talented Tiffany Topol as Carole King, backed by a great cast, the new production of "Beautiful" at Aurora's Paramount Theatre is irresistible.
The collection of short works promises to showcase the versatility, skill and heart of this ambitious company.
