"A Long Gay Book" is a little jewel of a musical that celebrates love, language, human eccentricity and the sheer pleasure of observing all that the world has to offer.
The latest Frank Galati-Stephen Flaherty collaboration.
You'd be a fool to bet against Karen Mason's latest show, running through Monday at Davenport's.
Everyone has experiences in their past that helped determine their future. For actors John and Joan Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Jeremy Piven, Lili Taylor, Rosanna Arquette and many others, that gui…
Frank Galati has a crush on Gertrude Stein. Pass the word.
In his new play, "Gem of the Ocean," August Wilson takes us to Ground Zero. No, not the place we came to know nearly 20 months ago, but rather, the City of Bones--the burial ground and birth…
Richard Greenberg's luminous, mysterious, emotionally churning tragicomedy, "The Violet Hour," is a wondrous piece of work--better experienced than explained even if it is not all that difficult to unspool its essential themes.
At Steppenwolf.
Amy Sedaris has interesting friends.
After weeks of you-are-there battlefield coverage, it might seem redundant to watch a play about the horrors of war. Yet among the many triumphs of director Mary Zimmerman's production of "T…
Unlike most of the local theater scene, Derek Hasenstab had no clue "The Lion King" was casting in Chicago when he got a call to audition for the extravaganza. Actually, he didn't know what …
The subculture of children's theater has always existed on the outer edges of "grown-up" theater. So it was an inspired and surprising move when Disney Theatricals hired Julie Taymor to crea…
Everything that director and designer Julie Taymor had done in the theater before being hired for "The Lion King" disqualified her for the job.
If the Chicago Shakespeare Theater were a country you might accuse it of imperialist tendencies.
Originally written for the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2001, "America 1941" has been reworked to include a part for Steppenwolf Theatre and "Frasier" actor John Mahoney, who came on board…
When she joined the Alvin Ailey company in 1967--a recent arrival in New York from her hometown, Denver--Lynne Taylor-Corbett was just 19, and the only white dancer in the troupe at a time o…
It has been two years since Julie Harris suffered a stroke during her run in Claudia Allen's play "Fossils" at Victory Gardens Theatre. Now the Tony Award winner is making plans to return to…
Kander & Ebb's original "Chicago" will play Sept. 9-21 at the Shubert Theatre, replacing "Frankie & Johnnie in the Clair de Lune."
Meanwhile, the production of "Sweet Charity" starring Marisa Tomei has been postponed indefinitely.
Gin and jazz--that part they got right.
But unlike the movies, Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner didn't exactly Charleston their way to a happy ending.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Anyone who has followed the almost surreal saga of Salman Rushdie's life over the past two decades might have been astonished to see the happily extroverted writer casually…