Teatro Vista, Chicago's largest Equity Latino company, partners with Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Chicago's only professional woman-centered theatre company, to stage the Midwest premiere of …
Last night, Bristol Palin, Jennifer Grey and Kyle Massey faced off in the finals of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Tonight, November 23, the winner will be named and take home the coveted mir…
In the middle of a phone call last night with Chicago stage badass Michael Shannon, he stopped on a street in Red Hook and had a brief exchange with a buddy he bumped into. I only caught Mik…
On Monday, December 20, 2010, the Broadway company of the international musical smash CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back Bianca Marroquin to the starring role of merry murderess Roxie Hart, …
Legit News: Whoopi Goldberg attached as a producer -- Tuner "White Noise" has set dates for a Chicago run, with Whoopi Goldberg attached as one of the producers.
Whenever theater people assemble—or blog, or comment on blogs—some variation of one bitter point of contention invariably bubbles to the surface: The perceived lack of responsiveness of America's major regional theaters to the artists who live and work around them. As Mike Daisey tells it in his provocative, one-man show How Theater Failed America, the typical, big American theater jets in a group of "freeze-dried" actors from New York, shoves them together with a peripatetic, weary visiting director with whom they probably have never before worked, and expects them to create profound art, art relevant to the city of arrival, with a standard three weeks of rehearsal.
The unprecedented Chicago production of "Wicked" will ring down its final curtain after its 1,500th performance at the Oriental Theatre on Jan. 25, 2009, show producer David Stone is expecte…
He sings "Mister Cellophane" in "Chicago," but Kevin Carolan keeps getting noticed.