PRIDE COMETH BEFORE AN ICEBERG Griffin Theatre Company's total triumph is a strange success. It's odd that a more intimate version of a musical called Titanic can so succeed. The cast is red…
Broadway in Chicago's world premiere of the new musical Amazing Grace, which officially opened Oct. 19 following previews that began Oct. 9 at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre…
EXCELLENT BY ALL APPEARANCES It is rare enough to find early operas staged in the U.S., so to find a whole company devoted to their performance is truly extraordinary. Haymarket Opera Compan…
FACELESS FOLLOWERS OF TWITTER AND MAO There's a fascinating paradigm shift in the middle of The Hundred Flowers Project, Christopher Chen's cautionary stage and video thriller. Whether you c…
A bit of blissed-out Americana, of escapist fantasy, goes down pretty easy these days. And that's what Giordano Dance Chicago delivers with Ray Leeper's new "Feelin' Good Sweet." A former Gi…
LEAPING BIPEDS! There's one more chance"tonight"to see five intriguing dances on display at the Harris Theater, exciting work from the reliable 52-year-old Giordano Dance Chicago troupe. Kin…
Audiences share their impressions of new musical AMAZING GRACE
The Chicago Humanities Festival CHF presents the 25th Anniversary Fall Festival, featuring 112 events which will explore the theme of Journeys, today, Oct. 25-Nov. 9, 2014.
Technically flawless and, of course, brilliantly composed, Don Giovanni ranks near the top of any opera lover's must-see list. This production is a luscious interpretation from vocals to vis…
The 50th edition of the Chicago International Film Festival ended last night with the screening of Reese Witherspoon's Oscar hopeful, Wild. With the marked improvement in both audience exper…
Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking 43 week run in 2012-2013, returns to Chicago for a limited engagement February 24through May 17, 2015 at Broadway I…
The Broadway regular recently ended his run in the long-running musical.
Sumptuous, unexpected and breathtaking, Joffrey Ballet's Swan Lake is a sublimely executed and unexpected interpretation of the classic ballet. In Christopher Wheeldon's telling of the tragi…
The current production of William Shakespeare's "King Lear," playing through Nov. 9 at the handsome and justifiably renowned Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier, stars Larry Yando as th…
I've been derailed from posting on the films I've seen at the Chicago International Film Festival by a major customer proposal I've been working on in my day job. But rest assured though tha…
Saturday | "The Hundred Flowers Project": A group of actors tries to create a play about Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in this show from Silk Road Rising. Through Nov. 23 at Historic Chic…
WHERE BLACK BOX EQUALS COFFIN Just in time for Halloween, The Chicago Mammals are performing their All Girl Edgar Allan Poe. Apart from the original source material, most everything about th…
Broadway In Chicago opened the the world premiere of AMAZING GRACE last night, the new musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron, di…
The romantic and richly textured tale of East versus West, THE KING AND I, comes to The Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, IL., previewing tonight, October 22, opening Octobe…
Andrew Ramcharan Guilarte and Heidi Kettenring co-star in the Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, which begins performances Oct. 22.
RECOMMENDED The headlining piece in Giordano's fall program is a commission from Broadway and television choreographer Ray Leeper. Leeper makes commercial dances for music videos and TV danc…
Learn more about new musical AMAZING GRACE via the show's leading lady
GRACEFULLY AMAZING John Newton (1725-1807) was many things: a slave trader, a sailor and a clergyman. Yet today he is chiefly remembered as the author of "Amazing Grace," perhaps the most we…
Bailiwick's revival of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party succeeds in doing what a great party should do - you leave exhilarated, excited, and more than a little exhausted. Director-chor…
Broadway In Chicago opened the the world premiere of AMAZING GRACE last night, the new musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron, di…