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A SEXUAL CAGE FIGHT The punning title"Cock"is a heavy clue on what to expect. From the moment you enter, you know you won't confuse this 80-minute tour de theatre with anything else. Profile…
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Director Gary Griffin's altogether enthralling Chicago Shakespeare Theatre production of "Gypsy" " the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents Broadway classic " makes all this clearer, …
RACIAL PROFILING AND YOU Smoothly staged by Jessica Thebus for the Goodman Theatre local premiere, the blame game reaches Olympic proportions in Tracey Scott Wilson's wicked two-act troublem…
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Broadway In Chicago and Producers Kevin McCollum, Doug Morris and Berry Gordy have announced an additional open call casting search for African American singers for the upcoming national tou…
The multiple-project event uses the arts to create community and activity along a stretch of Chicago Avenue.
'In love as in politics, one partner must rule. One of them must be the hammer, the other the anvil.' Venus in Fur, Chicago native playwright David Ives' 'smart, sexy, sinister comedy' Vogue…
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RECOMMENDED Insufferable people working unenviable positions for an inexcusable tyrant, the characters in “Assistance” are close cousins to put-upon office workers nationwide. In…
The Goodman Theatre's production of Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer officially opens at the Chicago venue Feb. 18 following previews that began Feb. 8.
LiveWire Chicago Theatre knows how to bring workplace tedium to a slow boil. Grueling to watch and torturous to perform, Leslye Headland's 105-minute urban nightmare depicts slackers trapped…
RECOMMENDED Walking through the cinderblock, cement and steel pipes of the parking structure and into the stark modern lobby of The Harris Theater at Millennium Park, I couldn't help but be …
James Franco is not just in Chicago for a poetry reading. The actor, who stars along with Chris O'Dowd in Anna D. Shapiro's upcoming Broadway production of "Of Mice and Men," actually is reh…
Actor-playwright Joshua Rollins, known for Chicago productions of "25 Saints" and "The Girl With Sun in Her Eyes," talks about his new play, "Darlin'," plus his training, influences, West Vi…
WHEN PLAYTIME IS OVER Somewhere between "Once Upon a Time" and "Happily Ever After" there is a very adult world of tests, losses, disappointments, and grief. Despite this, we assert our agen…
Bebe Neuwirth is bravely going where no actress has gone before—she’s tackling her third leading role in Broadway’s Chicago! After snagging the Tony Award in 1996 for her p…
NASTY NESTING DOLLS In Steppenwolf's new show, it’s the specifics that startle. There's enough grit here to repave Chicago's countless February potholes. But, despite its well-rooted s…
I recommend this show - the dance routines are a blast. The diction is impeccable. The costumes are spectacular and sharp. And, just so you know, clapping, singing along, and having a great …
RECOMMENDED This production of “Gypsy,” now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, begins gorgeously before the first note, at the silent sight of the ornate gilded frame of a stage …
A ROSE WHO EVENTUALLY BLOOMS Gypsy is as much a celebration of the addictive insanity of show business as a chronicle of the checkered childhood of super-stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Stephen Son…
Playwright Erika Sheffer puts the American dream under a magnifying glass.
The cast of Anna D. Shapiro's new Broadway production of Of Mice and Men is currently rehearsing in Chicago through the end of February. Starring James Franco, Chris O'Dowd, Leighton Meester…