Hart & Soul: Backstage at Chicago with Jennifer Nettles, Episode 4: Getting Ready
Chicago's Jennifer Nettles takes deep into the scariest part of her pre-show ritual: doing her hair and her lashes!
Chicago's Jennifer Nettles takes deep into the scariest part of her pre-show ritual: doing her hair and her lashes!
DOOMSDAY THERAPY The peculiar premise behind Matt Lyle's lifestyle comedy, now running in a moderately intriguing Midwest premiere by The Ruckus, is that for some folks the end of the world …
Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news HAMILTON opens at the Public, Sienna M…
The premiere of the new Broadway-bound musical First Wives Club begins tonight, February 17, 2015 at the Oriental Theatre 24 West Randolph St. and runs through March 29, 2015.
Do you believe the arts are important to a strong Chicago? We need your help! In a few days, all 50 Chicago City Council seats will be up for election on February 24. Help us show all 183 …
ALL KINDS OF ADMISSIONS A peculiarly persuasive puzzle play, Daniel Pearle's resonant A Kid Like Jake strategically omits the title character from the cast of characters. That's very right: …
A REALLY REALLY TIMELY PLAY 29-year old playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really premiered at Virginia's Signature Theatre in 2012 before heading to Off-Broadway, where it was helmed b…
Hotcha! The long-running revival of Chicago recently welcomed new stars, including a country-singing foxy Roxie and a Broadway baby Velma. Broadway.com resident artist Justin “Squigs&r…
VOGUEING IT AT VERSAILLES The putative appeal of David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette is that everyone likes to watch a train wreck. Now exfoliating in Steppenwolf's upper stage in a dispensable C…
EVERYTHING A FIRST DATE SHOULD BE First Date, an enjoyable new musical comedy that opened on Broadway in 2013, should really be called Blind Date. Its two principal protagonists, awkward Aar…
BEING ALIVE"AND SONDHEIM Way overdue and instantly invaluable, Porchlight Music Theatre's Sondheim on Sondheim delivers the inside look on Broadway's brightest. Rich with new arrangements fo…
SHOW BIZ KIDS Cineastas at least doubles the self-reflexion of your average REDCAT show. In this new Argentinian play, written and directed by Mariano Penzotti, you watch no fewer than four …
Deadline writes that S. Epatha Merkerson, best known for her long-running role on LAW amp ORDER, will star in another series created by Dick Wolfe, NBC's CHICAGO FIRE spin-off CHICAGO MED.
GAGA FOR GANESHA Now in residence at Victory Gardens Theater, the newly minted Rasaka Theatre Company is in hot pursuit of more diversity on Chicago stages. Their mission: to share the tales…
It is always a treat to experience a Broadway musical, and seeing Chicago: The Musical, presented by Barry & Fran Weissler at the National Theatre on Tuesday night continued that trend f…
VERY FINE FRENZIES Winter can be wonderful in Chicago"well, if you're safe inside the Auditorium Theatre for the ten performances of Unique Voices. The Joffrey Ballet's three-work showcase o…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2014/15 Subscription Season with the Chicago premiere production of Marie Antoinette, a modern, witty portrayal of the young queen of France by Davi…
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MIXED EMOTIONS "Hello, suckers!"Chicago" is playing at the National Theatre this week through Sunday, and who cares? This is the fifth stint at the National since 1997…
Almost 30 years ago, Bob Fosse collapsed after rehearsals for a revival of Sweet Charity not two blocks from the National Theater, where I saw a piece of his legacy last night: the most rece…
Step inside Jennifer Nettles and Carly Hughes’ opening night in Chicago for an eight week limited engagement, through Sunday March, March 29, 2015 at the Ambassador Theatre.
Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news THE EVENTS and THE ICEMAN COMETH open …
FIRST DATE features a book by Austin Winsberg 'Gossip Girl' and Music and Lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner Secondhand Lions, Twice Charmed. The musical comedy is produced by Jeanne …
FIRST DATE features a book by Austin Winsberg 'Gossip Girl' and Music and Lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner Secondhand Lions, Twice Charmed. The musical comedy is produced by Jeanne …
The Alan Zachary-Michael Weiner musical comedy First Date, which played a five-month Broadway run in 2013, officially opens in Chicago Feb. 12 after previews that began Feb. 5 at the…
A healthy theater scene needs a lively avant-garde. That might strike you as a curious statement: Chicago theater is a famously edgy and intense collection of institutions. Celebrities appea…