HORTON HATCHES A HIT "Oh! The Thinks You Can Think!" proclaims this joyous romp as it proves what it belts. One of those powerful pensées is: "A person's a person, no matter how small." …
The Pre-Broadway World Premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy Award winner Sting, and book by Tony winner John Logan and Pulitzer Prize-winner Bri…
The pre-Broadway premiere of The Last Ship, the new musical with music and lyrics by 16-time Grammy winner Sting — inspired by the songwriter's own childhood — ends its …
HIDDEN IN THE MASTER'S SHADOW The sardonically named Twain's World (that hint of amateurism is to be heeded), this year's week-long LitFest from First Floor Theatre is devoted to the works (…
By Morgan Greene. The TYA branch of theater for, by and with young people offers a rare intersection of authorship, representation and inverted hierarchies. When the lack of youth voices in …
Obie Award winner David Cromer stars in a Chicago-area reading of Larry Kramer's AIDS drama The Normal Heart, which is presented June 12 as a benefit for the Three Oaks Theater Festival.
Sandra Oh, of "Grey's Anatomy" fame, stars in a different kind of doctor drama in Ariel Dorfman's "Death and the Maiden," in Chicago.
Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, has announced the sixth production of its upcoming 20142015 Season. As previo…
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Broadway In Chicago has announced that THE ILLUSIONISTS - WITNESS THE IMPOSSIBLE, the world's best-selling touring magic show, will play Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre 151 W Randolph for …
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The Andrew Lippa musical Big Fish, which premiered in Chicago in spring 2013 prior to its Broadway run, will return to the Windy City beginning July 25 in a new production by the Jedlicka Pe…
Jedlicka Performing Arts Center concludes its 2013-14 season with the new Broadway musical BIG FISH with music and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Andrew Lippa, book by esteemed screenwriter Jo…
MUSICALS LIKE THIS OCCUR ONCE EVERY 100 YEARS What won't some do to flee the ravages and anguish of war? In 1947, when Brigadoon confirmed the mutual genius of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick …
Waiting for LiveWire Chicago's production of "Partners" to begin, my date and I talked about how much we would like an apartment that resembled Mike Mroch's elegantly shambling set. After th…
Mexican musical theatre and television actress Bianca Marroquin returns to the Tony Award-winning revival of Chicago July 8.
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Facing over $76,000 in back rent, the Next Theatre Company in Evanston, IL, will be forced to leave its current home at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center following the conclusion of the 2014-15…
Playwright Dorothy Fortenberry, whose work has been seen in some prestigious regional theaters, has overreached in this play, cramming in too many ideas and failing to fully develop the intr…
Check out photos from this classic musical before they disappear.
Chicago's Griffin Theatre Company will present the Tony-winning musical Titanic this fall, according to the Chicago Tribune.