A deeply intimate story about a young man named Usher writing a Broadway musical, this is probably the most sexually explicit musical ever produced.
The fan-favorite musicals "Dear Evan Hansen" and "Anastasia" are returning to Chicago in 2022, says Broadway in Chicago.
The #Enough Plays to End Gun Violence project aims to spark conversation about gun violence through the voices of youths across the country.
If the audience at the August Wilson Theatre could have carried Feldstein on its shoulders, it surely would have done so.
With the help of a dandelion, a child's imagination takes flight in this world premiere adaptation of the book by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson.
Watch the von Trapp kids closely and you'll see a lot of shared glances and frowns as the comings and goings of the adults cause whipsaw changes in the lives of these kids.
Upcoming titles include a world premiere musical based on "It Came from Outer Space," the long-anticipated "The Notebook" and Barbara Gaines leading her final show.
It's all a good, PG-13 laugh, a chance to shed one's inhibitions while remaining in a somewhat dignified and safe environment.
Not since the emerald hues of "Wicked" has a show looked more glorious in Chicago's Nederlander Theatre than "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."
The play offers up dextrous plotting, sardonic satire, subtle observations about the gray northern life and, above all, an unforgettable central character in Harry, a hangman who also loses …
For those of us of a certain age, it's hard to imagine Ntozake Shange first wrote the lines "Somebody, anybody, sing a black girl's song" nearly half a century ago, and made it to Broadway.
"The Prom," if you've never had the pleasure, deals with a cast of narcissistic Broadway types who try to "rescue" a gay high schooler in Indiana.
When Paula Vogel's play opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to non-existent.
Northlight Theatre's coming season kicks off with a blue collar comedy and also includes "Andy Warhol in Iran."
The project will contain a museum, two performing spaces and is earmarked as a performance home for the Congo Square Theatre Company.
New work dominates, although the season concludes with a new production of Harold Pinter's absurdist classic "No Man's Land."
The Chicago Opera Theater's 2022-23 season comes in anticipation of the COT's 50th anniversary in 2023.
She was, for decades, a reigning diva of the Chicago theater, a rich-voiced star of musicals with a singular presence.
Small town governance? Tracy Letts' play says we're all beasts underneath.
Noah is fresh out of the hospital after overdosing on heroin, Harper is her sister and legal guardian of the son Noah bore in high school. Looming over both women is the legacy of their moth…
"American Buffalo" is highly entertaining. But it could range deeper into the playwright's soul.
You wish that the younger performers had taken a cue from older cast members, dialed back all the shouting and explored how the deepest wounds we inflict are emotional ones, not verbal wins.
Presto! Mayne Stage, the historic East Rogers Park entertainment venue, will have a new name and new dedication to presenting magic.
Betrayed? Beheaded? So what. The queens now have their court. "Six" is a celebration of, as they say, "her-story," and you can clap and party along.
The Harris Theater's 2022-23 HTP Mainstage schedule includes "The Rite of Spring" and "The Glass Menagerie."