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Any fan of Jim Henson shouldn't miss this truly splendid addition to the seasonal attractions on offer in Chicago's Loop.
Granted, Roald Dahl's dark and complex stories from the 1960s are not easy to adapt into family musicals.
What you are seeing here is the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein "Cinderella," retooled a bit for modern sensibilities.
Everyone involved in the production reveres the title's old-school Jim Henson legacy.
Yes, there's a digital set in this revival of Eric Idle's hilarious musical and much of the audience doesn't know the material. But 'tis but a scratch.
This opera premiered in 1904, a year after the death of Czech composer LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek's daughter. That trauma seeped into every brutal detail.
There's no better time to get out and support Chicago theater than the festive season, when warm holiday performances abound.
Whether you're a staunch "Christmas Carol" traditionalist or looking for off-color holiday humor, our guide has concerts and shows that'll appeal to all stripes.
John Hoogenakker is a fine Henry II, all cynical and weary. I'd forgotten how much talk there is in this script about aching bones and death.
Here was a band that could have represented Germany at its best, a combination of Jews and Gentiles singing in perfect harmony.
This show bills itself partly as a 90-minute theater piece, partly as a concert and partly as a party.
No. 1 reason here is Kaitlyn Davis, a vulnerable, unpretentious actress who knows just how to play Carole King.
This is not Disney's "Jungle Book." Touring dance theater work imagines a near future in climate crisis.
In one corner, you have D'Agata, author of a piece about a suicidal kid jumping off the top of a Las Vegas hotel. In the other corner, you have Jim, who gets the job of fact-checking it.
My objections? Oh, an incoherent and crass book and tasteless jokes about "Creepy Old Guys" and so on. But Isabella Esler is a huge young talent as Lydia.
This show about killers and wanna-be killers of presidents is profoundly cynical, often an effective point of view for a musical, but somehow always troubling here.
Opening soon, the latest in a string of pre-Broadway musicals that director Jerry Mitchell has first brought to life in Chicago.
Selina Fillinger's comedy has become the most-produced play at American regional theaters this season. It's not hard to see why.
And was that the first ever Lyric encore? Tenor Lawrence Brownlee stops the show on opening night.
This is a goofy and warm-centered show that put me in mind of all the different trends I've seen at Second City.
The main event is a premiere of "Return to Patience" by Aszure Barton. The night opens with Darrell Grand Moultrie's "Dichotomy of a Journey" and tucks Lar Lubovitch's "Coltrane's Favorite T…
There's a contagious happiness, warmth and openness in this Shakespeare play. I guarantee you will not be bored.
Playwright Theresa Rebeck's new three-character play is about old age and the joy and tyranny of stuff.
Stephen Sondheim believed in the power of love, and in the someone who makes us "aware of being alive." This director has other ideas.
There's another member of the household that none of them can see. Clara has never left the house since her suicide 13 years ago.
