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June's dance highlights
In “The Targeted,” a new play by Hanna Kime, conspiracy theorists gather at a rustic retreat for a meeting of the “Solidarity and Truth Summit.”
The Style combines mime-ish facepaint, frequent confrontation with the audience and musical accompaniment of each movement.
TimeLine Theatre christens its new Uptown building with the Henrik Ibsen work, adapted by Amy Herzog in 2024, about a doctor whose alarming discovery makes him a town pariah.
“These Gen Z artists have a lot to say. And they’re really funny."
The twenty-fifth anniversary reimagining of the musical, now running for over a decade, makes its final stop in Chicago with its current two-week run.
The classic musical at Paramount Theatre abounds with lush scenery, colorful costumes, rich orchestral music and enchanting melodies.
Goodman Theatre’s gothic thriller delivers us from and unto evil.
TUTA Theatre's abbreviated twenty-first-century adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel is a visually striking dive into the mind of a madman.
Liz Chidester gives a terrific star turn as the country music legend, but the American Blues Theater production of this warhorse jukebox musical keeps us at arm’s length from Patsy as a pe…
The musical version of the classic novel makes its world debut at City Lit Theater, a comedy-adventure-romance mixed with dueling and song.
Dave Malloy's wondrous musical at Raven Theatre follows eight people in group therapy for internet addiction who use a cappella singing for healing.
Elizabeth Auman discusses TimeLine Theatre Company's new home, built for performance, and the journey that led them there.
In conversation with Ellyzabeth Adler on the evening-length work, premiering at Chicago Danztheatre’s space in Andersonville's Ebenezer Lutheran Church this month.
A major new theater makes its debut, and music makes its way into spring productions.
Jason Alexander directs this world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, a “marital combat” play with tightly wound action that takes repeated shots at the intimate lives of its coupl…
Northlight Theatre closes their season and their time in Skokie with this hilarious and zany production.
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.
