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Broadway in Chicago's *42nd Street* brims with a giddy celebration of song and dance, mixed with the power of believing in your dreams. Too bad the actors aren't getting paid the union salar…
BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE Grim gray barracks, fortress walls topped with razor wire, smart salutes from sentry towers, cut-away trailers deployed as offices and housing, fluorescent ligh…
THE PRICE OF POPULARITY Westerberg High is pretty low. This Reagan-era preparatory school in Sherwood, Ohio is a cesspool of snobbish belittlement. The Buckeye hellhole includes a witches' t…
UNEVEN PRODUCTION COMBINES CARNIVAL AND ROMANCE As part of Chicago's yearlong celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, Lyric Opera has mounted a production …
SHAW FRACTURES A FAMILY In 1896 George Bernard Shaw wrote You Never Can Tell (the title suggests a plot packed with surprise), his answer to the recently successful The Importance of Being E…
NEW ON NEW The debut of a quartet of new dance pieces was not without some unanticipated excitement. A patron managed to sneak two non-service dogs into the Museum of Contemporary Art's thea…
A TOO-CASUAL CRUELTY Macbeth, Claudius, Goneril, and Iago were monsters–horrible but not actual. Richard III, however, is Shakespeare's vilest historical villain. In his short, ugly re…
LORCA'S RUNAWAY BRIDE Elemental, darkly poetic, driven by death, Federico Garcia Lorca's domestic tragedy Blood Wedding is the 1932 installment of his peasant-primitive "Rural Trilogy." (The…
TAKE-OUT THEATER "This is not how I thought my future would be." Bittersweet, broken-spirited, resigned to mediocrity, that lament fits all the characters in David Jacobi's inexplicably name…
Irish Theatre of Chicago concludes its 2015-16 Season with the U.S Premiere of Deirdre Kinahan's probing drama SPINNING, directed by Joanie Schultz, playing May 25 " Jul…
Reviewer Keith Glab: Scott Woldman's *Beautiful Autistic* brims with humor that the cast is able to realize well. The play avoids clichés and doesn't offer up any easy answers to the proble…
The new drama begins its run this evening.
A neighborhood halfway to gentrification offers all sorts of ideological clashes between the working-class old guard and their moneyed new brethren. And Chicago's Uptown, where Neil Connelly…
SATURDAY | "Blood Wedding": A family battle threatens a young bride in Federico Garcia Lorca's poetic drama. Through April 24 at Lookingglass Theatre, 821 N. Michigan Ave.; 312-337-0665 and …
The season will include work by Kara Davidson and Phillip Klapperich.
SATURDAY | "Blood Wedding": A family battle threatens a young bride in Federico Garcia Lorca's poetic drama. Through April 24 at Lookingglass Theatre, 821 N. Michigan Ave.; 312-337-0665 and …
Stage and screen veteran Harris Yulin stars in the Court Theatre revival of the classic Eugene O'Neill play.
The new company will focus on gender parity in musicals by reimagining classics, commissioning new work, and producing unknown shows.
Harmony France and Danni Smith have launched Firebrand Theatre, a musical theatre company committed to empowering women.
After a sold-out preview at Chicago SketchFest 2015 'FRIENDS The One Where They Sing The Unauthorized Musical Parody' is back and bigger than ever.
Chicago headliner Paige Davis is ready to razzle dazzle you.
Jason Danieley on the enduring appeal of playing Billy Flynn in Chicago, roles he still wants to tackle and awe at his wife Marin Mazzie's amazing strength.
Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce casting for its Chicago premiere of THE DIVINE SISTER, the hilarious comic homage to nearly every Hollywood nun film ever made, …
Harmony France and Danni Smith, Co-Artistic Directors, are pleased to announce the launch of FIREBRAND THEATRE, the first musical theatre company committed to employing and empoweri…
