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These young actors give some winning performances despite the wobbly character development in the script.
The former circus with its famed three rings and animal acts closed in 2017. The new tour has aerial work, clowning, a human cannonball and variety. "Ringling has always changed."
Dennis Watkins, Chicago's premiere resident magician, has plied his trade for some 15 years in the Loop and now has the fancy new venue he deserves.
The same week my husband Miguel Cervantes booked the title role of Alexander Hamilton in the musical "Hamilton" our 7-month-old daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy.
The quick Broadway transfer replaces a previous plan to first tour the show to more cities, but was not a surprise given the success of the Chicago run.
After dozens of students, parents and alumni condemned the move as "embarrassing" and "frustrating," a school district in the northwest Chicago suburbs is walking back its decision to cancel…
The host for your evening is the magician-comedian Lucy Darling, adept at crowd work and adding to that supper-club vibe.
An upcoming performance program Nov. 3 at the Auditorium Theatre is an artistic digest of Deeply Rooted's history.
Compared to the Broadway overblown spectacle, the show sits far more easily at Chicago's intimate Mercury as a fun, Halloween-season entertainment.
Scott Sowinski, in his first season as director of Governors State University's Center for Performing Arts, wants to fail, he said, because "If we don't fail, how do we grow?"
The first 312 Comedy Festival will include performers such as Hannibal Buress, Craig Robinson, Nicole Byer and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
As this new musical confirms, Stephen Sondheim died happy, at the top of his lyrical and compositional game, and clearly in love.
The 25th anniversary of "O" was a reminder of many things, not the least of which the power of live actors and stage sets over video projections.
"Night Watch" is no great masterpiece, but the late Lucille Fletcher, who wrote for "The Twilight Zone," sure knew how to craft a mystery.
I hope Broadway gets to see the star James Monroe Iglehart in this role.
One scene is an example of ballet at its finest, with some of the world's best artists coming together to make inconceivable theatrical magic.
This new show relies for its appeal mostly on the rapport of its two contrasting stars, and the edgy material took guts.
"We tell the Louis Armstrong story through each of his four wives," star James Monroe Iglehart says. "He took a long time to understand himself.
The touring production comes to Chicago as a free work designed as an intervention to educate people on the HIV epidemic in marginalized communities.
Kudos to the show for delivering the full-blown experience, but it struggles to build a narrative we care about.
You may know Charlique Rolle as Congo Square Theater's executive director. Now she is the new president of the Black Arts & Culture Alliance of Chicago.
The year 1957, the setting of the final scene of "Merrily," is all about possibility. But we already know friends have disappointed friends.
As I emerged from Redtwist's black box theater, I knew I'd be thinking about this one for a while.
Salons are usually havens for gossip, always good for a laugh. But as we see in "Jaja's African Hair Braiding," they can also be safe spaces.
This is the '90s story of handsome serial killer Patrick Bateman, with a score by Duncan Sheik, staged right there in front of you.
