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If Hugh Jackman can't be sexy in The Music Man, we all should worry.
Deb Clapp, the executive director of the League of Chicago Theatres for the past 14 years, is leaving her position, effective at the end of June.
The Paramount has excellent timing. Just as that woodchuck known as Punxsutawney Phil was emerging in Pennsylvania, the theater was readying the first local production of the Broadway musica…
A fresh father-son drama by travis tate reopens Victory Gardens Theater at last.
Productions like the Drury Lane's full-throttle "Evita" still feel to me like a small miracle in these lingering days of COVID-19.
The main characters in Donja R. Love's play "Fireflies" are called Charles and Olivia. They're thinly veiled versions of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta.
The Trinity Irish Dance Company officially formed in 1990. "This is still five years before 'Riverdance,'" associate artistic director Chelsea Hoy said, crediting founder Mark Howard with pi…
Smart, challenging and deeply moving toward its close, "Relentless" is fully the equal of many of the serious dramas that populated Broadway this past fall.
The show is genuinely beautiful to experience throughout, which one almost never can say about jukebox musicals.
Chicago's Lyric Opera has announced its 2022-23 season, an extensive calendar with world premieres and classics.
August Wilson was America's William Shakespeare " surely we all can see this by now " and his play "Gem of the Ocean," now in rich revival at the Goodman Theatre, was his version of "Macbeth…
The touring Broadway musical "Hairspray" arrives in Chicago for a two-week run at the CIBC Theatre in the Loop this week.
If any journalist could be said to have lit the spark for an artistic movement, that scribe was Richard Christiansen, longtime chief critic at the Chicago Tribune.
A musical parody of "The Bachelor" brings some fun to the Apollo Theater in Chicago, with a local cast and clever songs.
Has one of the great theater cities on the planet just suffered the kind of blow that may require a recovery time of years?
Along with "Mary Rose" by Black Button Eyes Productions, choose between two interesting, gothic shows now playing in Chicago.
The Year of Chicago Dance will be new DCASE commissioner Erin Harkey's first major project.
BoHo Theatre Company on Thursday announced that Elizabeth Swanson will be its new artistic director.
Daniel Fish discusses the "Oklahoma!" musical now on tour: "I see everything I do as a new work. You are doing the show on a contemporary night."
Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater on Thursday announced a new season of shows for 2022, with the first beginning in just a few weeks.
As Illinois reaches what might be peak omicron, Chicago theaters and performance companies have announced a new round of postponements and schedule changes.
Director Daniel Fish's radical 2018 Broadway revival arrives in our town at a tough moment for traumatic endings. Fair warning.
Bronzeville's Lisa Beasley is riding the wave. Her raspy-voiced, disheveled impression as "Lory Litefoot" caught the eyes of Chicago last week and within hours Laugh Factory was on board for…
I'd say that "8-Track" probably delivered as much sustenance to the audience as any production in this company's history, at least based on what I saw happen to people's faces.
The musical show '8-Track' is now at Theo Ubique Cabaret in Evanston.
