Chicago theater openings for the week of Oct. 17-23
Friday | "The Anyway Cabaret (an animal cabaret)": This world premiere from TUTA blends folk-rock music and stylized storytelling. But these singing animals are not recommended for children …
Friday | "The Anyway Cabaret (an animal cabaret)": This world premiere from TUTA blends folk-rock music and stylized storytelling. But these singing animals are not recommended for children …
I just got through the first weekend of the 50th edition of the Chicago International Film Festival and I'm pleased to report that everything is running like a well-oiled, gently-humming mac…
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon received the Production-Musical large tier honor at the Chicago-area Jeff Awards, which were presented Oct…
A CONFESSION ABOUT SWEENEY TODD Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been four days since my last confession. I saw Porchlight Music Theatre's production of Sweeney Todd at Stage 773……
The 46th Annual Jeff Awards ceremony honoring excellence in professional theatre produced within the immediate Chicago area is tonight, October 13 at Drury Lane Oakbrook, 100 Drury Lane, Oak…
Cocktails named after some of the show stopping musical numbers from the smash Broadway musical CHICAGO greeted the cast, crew, and guests at a post-performance party at Marti's, a bistro in…
MISSING MECHE Although Nobel Prize-winning writer Vargas Llosa is known primarily as a novelist, he has also written nine plays spanning a period of sixty years. La Chunga,written in 1986, i…
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon and the Drury Lane staging of Les Misérables lead the nominations for the 2013-14 Equity Jeff Award…
TWILIGHT IN TIVOLI Following their productions of Brecht's The Mother and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, venturesome Oracle Theatre brings us another thespian rarity. This fall's find is Gore …
Audiences react to the first preview performances of new musical AMAZING GRACE
. The four-year-old Bailiwick Chicago has added LaChiusa's Wild Party to the list of little-seen, but exceedingly worthy, musicals it has lovingly performed for Chicago audiences.
One of the happier consequences of the recent uptick in the quantity and quality of off-Loop musical theater is that a very capable but often pigeonholed director and choreographer like Bren…
Nathan Allen, Artistic Director of The House Theatre of Chicago in Chicago, IL hopes to build a national presence and stronger community for their company and for smaller theater companies…
RECOMMENDED "I was surprised," choreographer Ivan Perez said when I asked how it was to work with the dancers of River North Dance Chicago. "They're very jazz-based and I was surprised how i…
Broadway In Chicago presents the the world premiere of AMAZING GRACE, the new musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith andArthur Giron, directed by …
ALICE IN ANDERSONVILLELAND Fall down the rabbit hole of the thoughtfully absurd Alice by Noelle Krimm, directed by Bilal Dardai. This performance"a reprise of the popular 2004 staging"showca…
Celebrate the launch of Partners' newest website, iSPi (isp-ee), an online hub that connects artists, non-profits, and entrepreneurs with space, volunteers, and resources in houses of worshi…
The 75-year-old legend, who starred in the films of Ingmar Bergman and Jan Troell before becoming a filmmaker in her own right, speaks with THR's Scott Feinbergread more
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will return to the United Center and Allstate Arena in Rosemont in November with "Legends," a melange of traditional circus and mythological beasts, it was…
After 25 years, River North Dance Chicago looks stronger than ever " virtuosic, yes, but with even greater heart. Wednesday's gala program, packed with terrific music and lit to the nines, u…
Chicago Humanities Festival will present a starry lineup of Tony Award nominees and winners performing a concert of songs from award-winning musicals.
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1928 A riot from start to finish, Bailiwick Chicago's The Wild Party is a breathless, exuberant, fast-paced production running for an hour and forty minutes without pause or …
EARNING THEIR FUTURE At 25 years young, River North Dance Chicago is as old as its current dancers, most born when it began. They grew up to find the perfect home for their non-negotiable ta…
The Chicago Humanities Festival CHF announced casting today for A Night at the Tonys, this year's William and Greta Wiley Flory Concert, an annual cabaret performance, taking place on Monday…