Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party Opens at Bailiwick Chicago Oct. 5
Bailiwick Chicago kicks off its 2014-15 season with the musical The Wild Party, which officially opens Oct. 5 following previews that began Oct. 2.
Bailiwick Chicago kicks off its 2014-15 season with the musical The Wild Party, which officially opens Oct. 5 following previews that began Oct. 2.
SMOKEFALL GETS IN YOUR EYES It opened a year ago in Goodman's smaller Owen Theatre. Due to rave reviews and popular demand, it's now the fall opener in the larger Albert enclave. Clearly, No…
In our latest video, Chicago star Christopher Fitzgerald talks switching from Amos to Billy Flynn, playing Glinda in Wicked and bringing the all-male Forum to NYC.
A VANDAL OF AN ENDING Thirty-something actor and writer Hamish Linklater's The Vandal is one of those plays that starts well and ends poorly. It begins with a middle-aged woman waiting at a …
The Great Chicago Fire will blaze again Oct. 4 when Chicago's Redmoon Theatre, known for its large-scale, site-specific productions, recreates the historic event in an unpreceden…
A WHISTLEBLOWER'S CONVENIENT SUICIDE Urgent, cinematic, and breathlessly intense in everything but its intermission, TimeLine Theatre Company's true-life exposé of a truth-teller and his ma…
Redmoon, Chicago's 24-year-old theater company known for "Spectacle Art" and free summertime community performances, partners with the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Sp…
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Bailiwick Chicago kicks off its 2014-15 season with the musical The Wild Party, with performances beginning Oct. 2.
Producing Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside and American Blues Theater, Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, are proud to announce the casts for the 2015 productions of S…
It is the first day of October, and other than wondering truly where the year had gone (it seemed just like yesterday that we were calling the Polar Vortex the worst thing that had happened …
A Radiohead musical is on its way to Chicago's Tympanic Theatre Company. A companion piece to Tympanic's critically-acclaimed play festival, Deliver Us From Nowhere-itself drawn from Bruce S…
This fall, the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse’s hit musical Chicago is pleased to welcome back celebrated Broadway baby Amy Spanger …
Spanger made her Broadway debut in the role in 2002.
Sheldon Patinkin, who was a driving force in Chicago theatre, as a director, teacher and mentor, died Sept. 21. The cause was a heart attack, which he suffered three days prior. He was 79.
Chicago's Tympanic Theatre has announced plans to produce Today We Escape, a new stage work inspired by the 1997 Radio Head album "OK Computer," which will premiere in spring 2…
This fall, the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's hit musical CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back celebrated Broadway baby Amy Spanger in the…
Amy Spanger will play three limited engagements in the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago before the end of the year.
Look who’s back in the clink! Broadway baby Amy Spanger will return to the long-running revival of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre as the lady raking in the chips: Roxie Hart. Spange…
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 may seem like an odd thing to celebrate, but don't worry, Redmoon is sure to do it oddly. Saturday night is the big night for the Great Chicago Fire Festival "…
Saturday | "The Gravedigger": Playwright Joseph Zettelmaier's horror story is a continuation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," produced by First Folio Theatre. Through Nov. 2 at First Folio …
The title of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's fascinating, flawed play about massive social change in China, "The World of Extreme Happiness," is almost beyond ironic. Nobody in this work, premie…
LAUGHTER IS THE WORST MEDICINE Humor and hygiene play off each other in Sarah Ruhl's much-praised but not altogether satisfying 2004 romantic comedy. Now fitfully revived by the new Bluebird…