The Chicago Tribune reported today that Actors' Equity will launch a new advertizing and social media campaign in Chicago that will 'educate' audiences about the difference between Equity an…
On Nov. 23 at 7 PM, the long-running, Tony-winning revival of Chicago will play its 7,486th performance, surpassing Cats to become the second longest-running show in Broadway his…
Ready to paint the town…and all that jazz? As previously reported, Chicago will become the second longest-running Broadway show of all time on November 23. With its 7,486th bow, the T…
Casting has been announced for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company world-premiere production of Airline Highway. Written by Lisa D’Amour and directed by Tony winner Joe Mantello, the produ…
Theater Review: A new staging of Richard Wright's novel about race and power is as strong and serious as it timely.
Actors' Equity, the labor union of professional actors and stage managers, said Thursday that it intends to use Chicago as a test city in a new advertising and social-media campaign designed…
Tony winner Jessie Mueller and her sister, Abby Mueller, headed back to their hometown of Chicago on September 22 to help launch FWD Theatre Project. Mounted as an incubator for theatre proj…
RECOMMENDED The main issue one encounters when judging a musical based on the "Evil Dead" series of movies is how to pull it off without Bruce Campbell. The beloved B-movie actor anchors the…
STOREFRONT SHENANIGANS Have you ever heard of Bad Settlement Theatre Company? Well, don't worry about it if you haven't. Up until the opening of House Theatre's production of Season on the L…
Bill Hanney's award winning North Shore Music Theatre NSMT presents the killer hit musical, CHICAGO for two weeks only. CHICAGO began performances last night, September 23 and plays through …
Sunday | "The Night Alive": When a stuck-in-a-rut guy comes to the aid of a distressed woman, both of their lives are changed for the better. Francis Guinan and Tim Hopper star in Conor McPh…
By Dani Snyder-Young. The expectations of audience behavior are different in park spaces than in formal theater spaces. Children can dip in and out of the performance, running off to play ne…
Bill Hanney's award winning North Shore Music Theatre NSMT presents the killer hit musical, CHICAGO for two weeks only. CHICAGO begins performances tonight, September 23 and plays thru Sunda…
The North Shore Music Theatre production of the Tony-winning John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical Chicago plays the Massachusetts venue Sept. 23-Oct. 5.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) continues the dynamic World's Stage Series with the U.S. debut of Théâtre de la Ville's Ionesco Suitefrom Paris, France. Directed by Emmanuel Demarcy…
This Tuesday, September 23rd, Young Americans all across Chicago will be celebrating the Golden Years of Ziggy Stardust himself on David Bowie Day. And what better way to honor the mu…
GOTHIC FRICTION There soon will be plenty of haunted houses and Halloween-themed plays cropping up, but if you’re looking for a genuinely creepy production now, you'll find it in Lifel…
The image one usually comes away with from a production of "King Lear" is that of the aged king, stripped down to his skivvies and raging against the elements. But one comes away from Chicag…
Eight veteran actors, directors, writers, choreographers and producers have created FWD Theatre Project 'Festival of Works in Development', a grass-roots initiative for the discovery, develo…
Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller joins her sister Abby Mueller and Karen Mason for a one-night-only Sept. 22 concert at Chicago's City Winery.
AFTER THE FALL IS OVER A Midwest premiere by Northlight Theatre, Amanda Peet's topical domestic drama The Commons of Pensacola isn't exactly about Bernie Madoff's unimprisoned wife nor how h…
Sheldon Patinkin, a crucial figure in the development of improvisational comedy in Chicago and a mentor to numerous generations of American and Canadian comedians and aspiring theatrical dir…
SUNSET ASSISTED DYING Samuel D. Hunter, Victory Gardens Theater ensemble playwright and recent recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award, specializes in tender tales of gutsy outsiders, spunky…
On Monday, September 29, the company of Broadway’s Tony Award-winning, record- breaking hit musical Chicago welcomes a brand new “Countess of the Clink” to the cell block, …
TALESPINNING AT ITS MOST LITERAL Running only through this weekend, Joffrey Ballet's captivating evening, Stories in Motion, delivers three richly imagined dance narratives, complete with st…