CHICAGO's Carly Hughes to Join Marty Thomas Presents DIVA at Industry Bar Next Week
CHICAGO star Carly Hughes will perform with Marty Thomas presents DIVA at Industry Bar, Monday night, September 14, at1100 PM.
CHICAGO star Carly Hughes will perform with Marty Thomas presents DIVA at Industry Bar, Monday night, September 14, at1100 PM.
One remarkable dance team. One big chance. One small twist. You gotta be over 60. Broadway In Chicago and Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke announced the individual tickets for GO…
FRIDAY | "Victor/Victoria": Nightblue Performing Arts Company presents this play set in 1930s Paris, where Victoria, a woman desperate for a gig, disguises herself as a man pretending to be …
WHEN GETTING THERE ISN'T HALF THE FUN Call it a combination of Locked Up Abroad and Coming to America. In 90 gorgeously pictured minutes, "multi-racial" performer Debra Erhardt thrillingly c…
Through Sunday, the sixth annual Chicago Fringe Festival takes over a variety of venues in Jefferson Park with 46 shows and 192 total performances. The acts are selected by lottery, rather t…
Prelude Note: I use "Fringe" to signify the Chicago Fringe Festival and "fringe" to signify the broad idea of fringe theater. A fascinating and magical aspect of a theater festival is the po…
There’s a whole lot of fun things to check out this weekend around Chicago. Here ... The post The Mix "Â The World Music Festival (and 7 more cool things to do this weekend in Chicag…
Windy City Playhouse, Chicago's newest Equity company, has announced its 2016 season. Three Chicago premieres are slated for the coming year, marking the theater's second year of operation.
Catching up with Deanna Dunagan in her New York hotel room, as she prepared to attend the premiere of her new film "The Visit" (opening Friday), the Lincoln Park-based actress said, "if I ha…
Windy City Playhouse, Chicago's newest Equity company, has announced its 2016 season. Two Chicago premieres are slated for the coming year, marking the theater's second year of operation.
An hour before he took the stage, Mike Pourhadi, Chicago's newest live-lit bard, ordered an Allagash Victor Ale at the Black Rock Pub (3614 N. Damen Ave.) and hoped its high alcohol content …
Ayad Akhtar's acclaimed drama comes to the Goodman Theatre with the director who predicted its prize-winning future.
The Los Angeles Times, for decades a microcosm of the downward spiral of the print news industry, suffered its latest gut-wrench this morning with the announcement that publisher and chief e…
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee will present the 2015 Equity Special Award to actors Paula Scrofano and John Reeger at the Jeff Awards ceremony, in recognition of their contributions t…
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee will present the 2015 Equity Special Award to actors Paula Scrofano and John Reeger at the Jeff Awards ceremony, in recognition of their contributions t…
DELIVERANCE FROM DROUGHT It's a terrific recipe for powerful theater. Confront audiences with an unfinished situation amid a collective challenge–with seemingly no way out. Then introd…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater CST presents Shakespeare's spectacular tale of revenge and romance --The Tempest--staged by award-winning directors Aaron Posner and Teller, of the magic duo Penn…
Aaron Posner and Teller's adaptation of Shakespeare's work begins tonight.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater debuts its staging of The Tempest Sept. 8, with Larry Yando in the lead role of the sorcerer, Prospero. The production is directed by Aaron Pose…
Prelude The Chicago Fringe Festival is about as "off Loop" as theater gets around these parts. Fringe's anti-establishment streak goes even deeper than its DIY spaces. It goes straight down …
A POOR MAN'S PETER PAN Let's put two prequels in perspective: What the novel-based Wicked is to The Wizard of Oz, Peter and the Starcatcher, a novel-derived "origins tale," is for Sir James …
BEYOND THE PALE Bad Jews (the provocative title not as anti-Semitic as it sounds) was a 2015 hit at London's St. James and New York's Roundabout theaters. In the Chicago area Jeremy Wechsler…
FRIDAY | "Daughters of Ire": Women of Irish legend claw their way into 2015 in The Other Theatre Company's one-woman show. Through Sep. 20 at The Side Project Theatre, 1439 W. Jarvis St.; ot…