The Raven Theatre is transformed into the basement apartment of a three-flat in the 1960s on the South Side of Chicago, where a Black grandmother works tirelessly to protect her home and gra…
Rennie Harris' new piece, a tribute to Chicago House music and legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles, will appear alongside recent commissions from Hope Boykin, Randy Duncan, and a world premiere fr…
A show that portrays "real" Muslim characters who spend half the show in their undergarments, twisting and contorting in all manner of sexual positions, and the other half having deep conver…
What does an early twentieth-century Arctic explorer and a modern-day single mother/struggling musician have in common? Almost nothing! And yet they make for the most charming companions in …
Edwards owes his impressive comedy career to working at a drive-thru.
Antonio Edwards Suarez puts in a career defining performance in this insightful meditation on race and identity.
This British musical seems to pull off the impossible. The mesmerizing but highly complex score requires singers and musicians who can manage its intricate rhythms with precision and still a…
The early twentieth-century fictional Harlem musician Coalhouse Walker in E.L. Doctorow's novel"also the centerpiece of this musical"is a powerful symbol of racial injustice. And yet it is a…
An incisive, suitably atonal but pitch-perfect Chicago premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that leads, relentlessly, to unexpected heights of humor and drama…
The minimum-wage workplace as depicted in this world premiere drama is a nightmare of tedious toil, endless surveillance and absolute disrespect.
Lifeline's funny, poignant, zippy production of Endesha Ida Mae Holland's 1990 play about the writer's life-long journey from the Jim Crow South, through the Civil Rights Movement of the 196…
For Ellyzabeth Adler, founder and artistic director, T.S. Eliot's heap of broken images is a longtime literary favorite and the source material for the first dance theater piece she created …
"Big River" is a musical based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, with songs by Roger Miller. Mercury Theater's production is crisply moving, superbly sung and highly entertaining.
Get downtown and see this show. It may change you for good. It will certainly raise your standards on what to expect from a musical, including one direct from Broadway.
The Lincoln Lodge's "Latest and Greatest" show serves up a perfect mix of rising talents and veteran favorites
This is true, exciting storefront theater, set in a literal, narrow storefront on 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood. It's challenging, passionate, and beautifully in your face.
May is for musical comedy and edgy new work.
The playwright messes with the rituals and conventions of theater to get deep inside messy interlocking themes, including ethnicity, bias, justice, empathy and creativity.
From Frank Lloyd Wright to T.S. Eliot, dance shows its range in May.
It's the story of a man so desperate for the Washington Senators to trounce the Yankees that he is willing to sell his soul to do it.
Paramount Theatre's eleventh anniversary Broadway Series concludes with "School of Rock," a light-hearted rock musical based on the 2003 comedy movie of the same name.
The old music is an impressive collection of folk standards. The new play is a trio of voices working their way through a familial landscape.
The five lead dancers skillfully meld precise, athletic movement"in a contemporary ballet mode"with expressive theatricality.
The title character of Jessica Dickey's play is also the subject of Dava Sobel's bestselling book of the same name. Sobel's book about the great scientist's brilliant, illegitimate cloistere…
A full and convincing portrait of a family that works against great odds to stay together and give its members the support and tough love they need.