Love is heating up the cold Chicago air this Valentine's Day at Le Méridien Chicago " Oakbrook Center, 2100 Spring Road in Oak Brook, Illinois, with three special packages. Chosen by Chicag…
On Sunday, January 25, Broadway’s hit musical Chicago welcomed Drama Desk Award nominee Alexander Gemignani in a limited return engagement as Billy Flynn through Friday, March 13. Gemi…
RECOMMENDED Winter can be rough for parents and their children. Snow and cold and sniffles lock them inside for weeks or months, with only intermittent sledding sessions or the occasional pi…
Though Aaron Holland's new play claims inspiration from Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," it really is a straight-up (well, sort of) bildungsroman about a young gay black man finding his true n…
February 27th through March 22nd 2015, The Runaways Lab Theatre Company will present their production of “Faust: Part 1″ by Johann Von Goethe in 19 different secret locations acr…
THE JUICY APPLES' SLICE OF LOVE You can't keep an eloquent family down. TimeLine Theatre Company's concurrent productions of election-night episodes from Richard Nelson's Apple Family Plays …
RECOMMENDED Covetousness, fueled by ambition and greed, drives the plot of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth," where Scotland's political system is upended twice, with murder the tool to power,…
ACTION SNAPSHOTS IN AN APPLE HARVEST Commissioned by New York's Public Theatre, the four-part saga Apple Family Plays by the prolific Richard Nelson is a remarkable effort to preserve the pr…
The musical revival plays the Ambassador Theatre.
RECOMMENDED Puccini's score for "Tosca" is chock-full of thrilling moments. The crashing opening chords introduce us to Angelotti, whose escape from prison drives the plot. We don't wait lon…
Chicago Restaurant Week, produced by Choose Chicago, returns on Friday, January 30 marking the 8th annual culinary celebration. The 14-day promotion continues through Thursday, February 12 a…
RECOMMENDED The Auditorium Theatre's "Made in Chicago" series"part of the programing for the 125th anniversary season"has opened the historic, gold-rimmed stage to a couple hometown companie…
RELUCTANT HEROISM IN A CHANGING CAUSE Oracle Theatre, Chicago's 44-seat public-access venue where tickets are free, just unleashed another populist piledriver. It's a play with several sourc…
RECOMMENDED I will never forget the tears I shed reading the story of Demario Bailey, the Chicago teen gunned down three days shy of his sixteenth birthday, because he refused to give up his…
RECOMMENDED Aaron Holland, Bailiwick's resident playwright, took it upon himself to read one of the world's longest books, Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Grasping Tolstoy's purpose "to blur …
Alexander Gemignani will return to razzle dazzle ‘em in Broadway's Chicago on January 25 for a limited engagement through March 13 at the Ambassador Theatre. He steps into the role…
On Sunday, January 25, Broadway's hit musical CHICAGO welcomes Drama Desk Award nominee Alexander Gemignani in a limited return engagement as Billy Flynn through Friday, March 13.
NO BOYS IN THIS BAND In only 80 minutes, Grant James Barjas's Accidentally, Like a Martyr assembles the very actual denizens of an obscure, unnamed gay bar on Manhattan's East Side"and ma…
Jennifer Nettles: Grammy winner, newfound Broadway darling, and now…Broadway.com vlogger! The Sugarland singer, who will make her Great White Way debut in Chicago as Roxie Hart beginn…
ONE HAND, ONE HEART"ONE HIT! Sadly, hate conquers all in West Side Story, but the love we see and feel can hold its own. Though over a half-century old, the Bernstein/Laurents/So…
About Face Theatre is pleased to continue its 2014-15 season with the Chicago premiere of A KID LIKE JAKE, Daniel Pearle’s contemporary dramedy about parenting, gender and fitting in. …
Windy City Playhouse, Chicago's newest Equity theater, located at 3014 W. Irving Park Road, will officially open Monday, March 23, at 7pm. The inaugural production of the 2015 season is …
TUTA Theatre Chicago will present the U.S. premiere of French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce's "Music Hall," which will run Feb. 5-March 8 at The Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee. The production …
The steady expansion of the performing arts in Chicago continues its marvelous pace, with more and better theater, dance, comedy and opera gracing more and better stages each passing year. T…
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 Two productions of INTO THE WOODS laun…