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May dance highlights
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s world premiere at Steppenwolf examines the aftermath of a police killing.
“The Great Gatsby: A New Musical” is here for a short run at Broadway in Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre.
A.A. Milne’s 1921 comedy of romantic disillusionment has its moments but doesn’t quite jell.
Writers Theatre's production stars Rae Gray as a Big Tech employee undergoing an evaluation with a therapist played by Christopher Donahue.
Joel Paley's story of a sociopathic child star serves as a meta critique of the musical theater genre.
"Leslie uses her own body—quite bravely—to narrate the horror (and horrific normalization) of human commodification."
More mid-century than modern, this production takes its cues from Caroline Francke's original stage adaptation, set in a 1950s suburban milieu that predates the beloved Steve Martin film.
Mangum, the Lyric's general director, president and CEO, and Mazzola, the Lyric's music director, discuss what's in store for the opera company in the year ahead.
Like marriage itself, the play is not for the faint of heart, but is a journey well worth undertaking.
Long championing the creative power of Latina women, the company's evening-length work is inspired by Chilean poet, journalist and diplomat Gabriela Mistral.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater stages "The Merry Wives of Windsor," a comedy that is produced less often than others in the Bard's canon, but worth catching.
In Wilson's 1982 play, the playwright imagined a recording session for prolific early-blues recording artist Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and her band in Chicago in 1927.
The Artistic Home stages the U.S. premiere of Elizabeth Kuti's play set in 1850 Dublin.
Fernandes' practice encompasses just about any medium you can name"dance, sculpture and design, textiles and fashion, photography and film"and is often in conversation with the spaces that c…
The West Side native and interdisciplinary artist is taking on a new challenge"acting and singing in his own production that draws from gospel hymns, blues, funk and poetry.
Three pieces will premiere in Hedwig's program, which incorporate objects to reveal how human bodies are conversant with and transformed by the designed world.
Gary Houston and Shelby Marie Edwards star as two leads who develop an improbable intellectual chemistry in this play by Kurt McGinnis Brown.
Elshieky discusses the trajectory of his comedy career, from his early days podcasting in Libya to making his break on "Conan."
avery r. young's Afro-surrealist opera, two Jazz Age tales and a new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney are among April's top productions to see.
April dance is in full bloom.
David Byrne and Mala Goankar's show explores the science of perception, taking audience members through experiments involving sight, vision and taste, while telling a story of a life from it…
The producer discusses his Broadway career, from the tragic origins of "Rent" to the tragedy in D.C. that led to this spring's "Hamilton" production in Chicago.
Through the Festival and year-round at Red Clay's studio, Vershawn Sanders-Ward celebrates and nurtures the creativity of Black female artists.
A pure product of Chicago's collaborative theater culture, this new play from Her Story Theater digs deep into the nature of art and truth.
