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Pearl Cleage on what it means to have a Chicago festival focused on her work, including "The Nacirema Society" at the Goodman Theatre.
Monday was an especially good night for the Goodman Theatre, winning for "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Who's Tommy."
Playwright Sarah Ruhl doesn't just look at the relationship between Eurydice and Orpheus but at that between Eurydice and her dead father.
It wasn't so much that this three-act script was a literary masterpiece as it was a blueprint for thrilling theatrical storytelling.
There's a wonderful goofiness to the production, directed by Tommy Rapley.
Wagner's fantastical 1843 opera is about a sea captain fated to sail forever. Director Christopher Alden's production doesn't offer him much hope.
This is a knockout show, as hilarious as it is cutting and as emotionally warmhearted as it is politically potent.
Playwright Pearl Cleage's comedy of manners pokes gentle fun at a society with Black debutants in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early 1960s.
"Boop! The Betty Boop Musical" is slated to play from Nov. 19 to Dec. 24 at Chicago's CIBC Theatre.
Martyna Majok's play is staged in the round and for the first minutes, the characters of B and G circle each other in a rapid-fire series of sparing scenes.
Singer-turned-illustrator-turned-comedian Matteo Lane is returning to Chicago for a sold-out show at the Chicago Theatre Sept. 29.
The celebration of the company's co-founder at the Auditorium Theatre included dancers from across the country. That's the Joffrey's influence.
This promising new show taps into the true-crime story of Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek, a one-time Milwaukee cop and Playboy bunny, with music by Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes.
Many are open this weekend. There are even a few new ones this year " and whether or not you've heard of Raven's Grin Inn in Mount Carroll, read on.
In Jim Cartwright's play, the struggling title character escapes from her chaotic life into a world of songbooks.
Writer Pearl Cleage's play is about characters trying to hold on to their idealism, and their relationships, even as conflict lurks around every corner.
"Baked!" is a sweet, funny, coming-of-age show about a bright-eyed valedictorian who finds herself short of tuition for Harvard.
In Brett Neveu's quirky new comedy, a young retail worker's birthday is in need of saving.
Under his leadership, the Hyde Park theater won the 2022 regional Tony Award.
First-timers got special buttons when Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the Founding Fathers opened back in the Loop Thursday night. It's hard for me to put myself in their place.
For my money, Noah Haidle's play is precisely why people go to the theater.
While this offbeat world-building is entertaining, I was left uncertain of why "Cat's Cradle" is being revived in 2023.
The playwright and screenwriter said it was important to support small theaters, especially during the Hollywood writer's strike.
He told the Tribune that he was proud that the company had not hibernated during the pandemic, but created risky but successful projects including a drive-through production of "Twilight: Go…
This is not an operatic production, it is raw, simple and potent.
