Evan Rachel Wood will perform in Chicago
Film star Evan Rachel Wood will join the cast of the upcoming "For The Record: Dear John Hughes," a theatrical concert centered around the soundtracks of director Hughes' movies, Broadway in…
Film star Evan Rachel Wood will join the cast of the upcoming "For The Record: Dear John Hughes," a theatrical concert centered around the soundtracks of director Hughes' movies, Broadway in…
Film star Evan Rachel Wood will join the cast of the upcoming "For The Record: Dear John Hughes," a theatrical concert centered on the soundtracks of director Hughes' movies, Broadway in Chi…
When brothers Paolo and Rodrigo Pederneiras and their siblings " who'd studied ballet and contemporary dance as teenagers " decided on dance careers in the mid-'70s, their hometown of Belo H…
A PASSION PLAY FROM PLACID Like a baby on a breast, Lifeline Theatre thrives on adaptations of "coming of age" novels. Like many memory-rich predecessors, Jessica Wright Buha's clear and pre…
It is desperation as much as passion that drives the characters in "Therese Raquin," the opera with a score by Tobias Picker, and a lean, effective libretto by Gene Scheer, based on the 19th…
Among Melissa Thodos' accomplishments " beyond guiding her company to its 23rd season, no small feat " is expanding its universe with the American Dance Legacy Project in 2009 and the "New D…
SHRINK, ENLARGE THYSELF! Christopher Hampton's dramas are marvels of complicated construction, starting in the past and finding us fast. A retelling of the "creation myth" of psychoanalysis,…
RECOMMENDED Chicago Opera Theater's "Thérèse Raquin" is the all-around finest production I have had the pleasure to enjoy in any 2014/2015 season, including those at The Met and Lyric Oper…
DARK DOINGS IN POSTWAR PARIS Now in an appropriately driven local premiere by Chicago Opera Theater, Tobias Picker's two-and-a-half hour opera from 2001 delivers a bleak harvest of shame. Th…
Original Broadway Cast, 1975 (Arista) Perhaps not fully appreciated during its initial run of only two years in the mid-1970s, the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical Chicago is now recog…
Those of us who love the art form appreciate efforts like this to make the musical relevant and appealing to new generations, and it may well be that those who have more recently experienced…
The event offers $15-30 tickets to more than 100 productions at Chicago theatres, and experts and theatre leaders say it's putting more (and new) butts in seats.
A VICTORIAN TALE FOR TODAY Jackie Robinson was not, it seems, the first black baseball player in the major leagues. Long before 1946, Moses Fleetwood Walker was a catcher for the Toledo Blue…
By Raymond Rehayem "It's really close, I mean it’s about thirty minutes. Some people think it’s Muncie and that’s way far away compared to Munster which is just right next …
The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) presents Chicago author Cristina HenrÃquez on Wednesday, March 18 at 6 p.m. at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago (31 W Ohio St).The Crain’s …
If you’ve a hankering for the orgiastic feast of a sumptuously designed, dramatically staged, organically acted, and gloriously sung evening of Wagner to warm the frozen tundra of your…
BY KYLE MACMILLAN | FOR THE SUN-TIMES Gioachino Rossini wrote his inaugural opera while still ... The post ‘Therese Raquin’ slated for four performances by Chicago Opera The…
New plays from writers of The Laramie Project and Detroit '67 are planned.
Lyric Opera of Chicago will soon present Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, starring Steven Pasquale as carousel barker Billy Bigelow, Laura Osnes as his true love, millworker Julie Jordan,…
Time to crack open that piggy bank and book a trip to Chicago! Broadway favorites Laura Osnes and Steven Pasquale are heading to the Windy City to play Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in the …
THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, is pleased to announce a day-of-show drawing for the Second National Tour, which returns to Chicago by popular demand f…
Equity is preparing to square off with small theater producers in Los Angeles over a proposal to require a minimum wage for actors. The upcoming bout between the union and the producers will…
SUNDAY | "One Came Home": This new stage adaptation of Amy Timberlake's novel, set in 1871 Wisconsin, is set in motion by the disappearance of a young girl. Through April 5 at Lifeline Theat…
Churchill, a new play adapted and performed by Ronald Keaton, officially opens Feb. 18 at New World Stages. The show began previews Off-Broadway Feb. 6 following an acclaimed and sold…
Hart & Soul: Backstage at "Chicago" with Jennifer Nettles, Episode 4: Getting Ready Get tickets to "Chicago": http://www.broadway.com/shows/chicago/ "Chicago&q…