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The Chicago Circus and Performing Arts Festival includes traditional circus acts, burlesque shows, juggling and clowning events.
We first meet Ernestine when she is 17 years old, learning one of her family's most abiding rituals: the baking of a favorite birthday cake
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical might seem to be about the relationship between the authoritarian King of Siam and his feisty hired schoolteacher, but it's also about change, acceptance an…
Porchlight Theatre announced its 2022-2023 season with shows for its mainstage, Porchlight Revisits and New Faces Sing Broadway series.
The dancer and choreographer who, even more than Robert Joffrey, was responsible for the role the Joffrey Ballet has in Chicago today will be the subject of a multi-year national celebration.
Jaws clenched, limbs firing and hearts on the line: that's what the admirable cast of the gutsy "Paradise Square" is delivering at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.
"EXit4″ was so loved in the seasons following its premiere that it was nearly performed to death. But time and a new context reaffirm how good this piece really is.
After 35 years at the Goodman Theatre, artistic director Robert Falls this week announced his final season as artistic director.
Upcoming shows also include "The Island," "Fen" and "The Gospel at Colonus."
"Winnie the Pooh" is, really, a metaphor for the importance of friendship between diverse and different creatures.
"Love with a laugh only goes so far." Those eight words, which I heard sung Thursday night from the stage of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, have interfered with my sleep.
In the solo play, Mohegan theater-maker Madeline Sayet travels to England in 2015 to pursue a Ph.D. and finds a country on the eve of the Brexit vote.
"I was just drawn to the fear, and the utter challenge, of playing someone who was so opposite from me," Hayes said on playing Levant.
Oscar Levant, who died in 1972, was a movie actor and songwriter. What a star they have found in Sean Hayes, best known for "Will & Grace."
Before she achieved international fame as Mrs. Patmore in the television series "Downton Abbey," Lesley Nicol was a widely admired British stage actress.
The Broadway musical with the music and moves of Michael Jackson will open its first national tour in the Loop.
"Welcome back to the theater" is a common curtain announcement these days. You can hear it at the biting comedy "White" from Definition Theatre and you can live it at "Stand Up If You're Her…
Before she found fame as the beloved cook Mrs. Patmore on "Downton Abbey," the British actress was a longtime stage performer.
The couple of temporarily relocating to New York
The longstanding off-Loop company founded in 1985 finally has found itself a permanent new home on Chicago's North Side.
Words like eye-popping extravaganza surely are overused on Broadway but "Moulin Rouge" lived up to that billing.
A riff on "Death of a Salesman," this play wonders what would happen if Linda Loman met the woman with whom her husband had an affair.
After an association of some 40 years, Terry James, the executive producer of the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, has announced his retirement this summer.
"King James" tells a moving story of two friends in Cleveland who bond and come unstuck over the rise, exit and return of LeBron James.
The Joffrey Ballet has an ambitious season in store, returning to normal operations " and then some " for the 2022-23 season at the Lyric Opera House.
