In Gracie Gardner's two-character play, Athena is a 17-year-old who likes having a warrior moniker. Gardner has written a character study of two smart, self-reflective teenagers with the ad…
Kia Smith's South Chicago Dance Theatre celebrates its fifth anniversary with five world premieres at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
Chicago Dancers United has announced the lineup for this summer's Dance for Life, coming to this August to the Auditorium Theatre.
These two interesting off-Loop shows are a reminder of the power of Chicago acting.
Former Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung prepares his production of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at the Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee.
The new Second City Artistic Advisory Board, announced Tuesday, also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jane Lynch and Tim Meadows. The theater currently has no artistic director.
"A Strange Loop," Michael R. Jackson's critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday.
Anton Chekhov's 1896 play is famous exploration of the pain and black comedy within a damaged, theatrical family, freshly adapted and directed at Steppenwolf by Yasen Peyankov,
Joel Drake Johnson's play centers on a middle-aged Black woman who returns to her job at Northwestern Memorial Hospital after days off to recover from an illness attributed to chemicals from…
Paramount Theatre in Aurora has canceled its Broadway Series performances of "Rock of Ages" set for Friday through Sunday due to a COVID-related illness in the theater company, Paramount off…
"Rock of Ages" is what you might call a party show, giving the audience a fun jukebox musical full of Bon Jovi and Journey.
Christophe declared himself king of that Caribbean nation in 1811, and then set about building a kind of shadow version of a European monarchy.
In 2011, an anti-abortion billboard went up in Black neighborhoods, targeting Black women, with a picture of Obama on it.
This story about a young Black seamstress struggling to make her way in 1905 New York is as gentle as it is persistent, and remains my favorite of Lynn Nottage's plays.
Playwright Naomi Iizuka frames single moments in the lives of ordinary people, transforming them into images rich with meaning and memory.
Mike Birbiglia has some schedule juggling to do " he's filling in as guest host on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" this week after Kimmel announced Monday he has COVID-19.
I first saw "Spring Awakening," the Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater musical about adults confining their children to sexual ignorance, more than 15 years ago.
Love often begins at funerals, since those events put everything in context of mortality. We're only her for a while, Helen realizes, so you might as well go after the lover who only looks o…
Daniel Craig brings plenty of talent and star power to "Macbeth" on Broadway, but the production loses its way.
In person, on stage or on the page, Susan Nussbaum was a delight, a ferociously talented actor, writer and passionate disability rights activist.
He figured out long ago that he knows how to talk about love, a topic that many male comedians avoid.
Both dating to the Great Depression, "Serenade" is still a curious overture for "Of Mice and Men," British choreographer Cathy Marston's story ballet based on the John Steinbeck novella.
Throughout the piece, the dancers wrestle with this unwieldy, unforgiving object, their bodies enclosed by a tangle of wires and barbs.
Billy Crystal has aged into his role as Buddy Young Jr. perfectly for the Broadway version of "Mr. Saturday Night."
Troup Bingo's mantra is to leave the worries of the war outside the circus tent, focusing first on what is often a very dangerous job.