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With a dazzling cast, inspired design and Gioachino Rossini's enduring score (that has made this work a shorthand for opera itself), The Barber of Seville will win new hearts and reinvigorat…
The acclaimed documentary "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," which will officially premiere in New York City Feb. 21, has announced additional release dates for cities across the U.S.
STATE OF THE STEPS Playing (in every sense of the word) through Feb. 23, Joffrey Ballet's three-part showcase of Contemporary Choreographers delivers some (happily) bloodless cutting-edge mi…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater CST presents Gypsy at CST's Courtyard Theater, running now through March 23, directed by CST Associate Artistic Director Gary Griffin and starring Tony Award nomi…
Picking the upcoming opening nights From "Assistance" to "Russian Transport."
RECOMMENDED Before this hour of booze-soaked sketch comedy even starts, the audience spends plenty of time drinking in the lobby. And again in their seats after the house opens. And don't wo…
Mercury Theater Chicago Presents The Hypocrites' production of INTO THE WOODS Feb. 6 - March 30 2014 Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N Southport Ave., presents The Hypocrites' product…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Chicago's Golden Soul' at Black Ensemble Theater ★★★ THEATER REVIEW: 'Chicago's Golden Soul' at Black Ensemble Theater ★★★ So what came …
RECOMMENDED Walking out of the theater, I overheard a woman telling her companion, “even when I’m already feeling good when I get here, I leave feeling better.” That sums u…
A razzle-dazzling new Blu-ray and DVD edition of multi-Academy Award-winning big screen mega-hit musical CHICAGO is out today.
HEDY WEISS: An unmitigated knockout of a revue at Black Ensemble Theater, it features an amalgam of musical talent that not only pays homage to the great names of this city's influential pas…
Over a decade since winning six Academy Awards including Best Picture 2002, Chicago is set to razzle dazzle audiences once again with a brand new, fully restored feature film - including vis…
IT DOESN’T GET MORE GOLDEN THAN THIS Hot stuff on a cold night! Just released as a companion piece to Black Ensemble Theater's runaway hit It's All-Right to Have a Good Time: The Story…
Playwright Rebecca Gilman is known for tackling the topical (racism in academia in "Spinning into Butter," stalking in "Boy Gets Girl") and for carefully, even over-bluntly, placing her char…
Stage 773 has announced the line-up for the second annual “Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival,” a festival dedicated to the geekier sect of the Chicago funny scene, representatives for…
Stage companies big and small offer $15 and $30 tickets during "an opportunity for people to step outside of their comfort zone."
PLAYING GOD AIN'T FOR AMATEURS Following his return from a decade in exile in Siberia as a dissenter against the Romanov order, Fyodor Dostoevsky intended his second novel, written as much t…
The Goodman Theatre's production of Tracey Scott Wilson’s Buzzer begins performances at the Chicago venue Feb. 8.
ANATOMY IS NOT DESTINY Bursting with more arguments than solutions; cerebral, metaphorical and personal (sometimes simultaneously); Sarah Treem's two-act, two-person drama is also two plays:…
THE DUKE WHO WAS A KING A blast from the "big band" past, Queenie Pie is the great late Duke Ellington's sole–if unfinished"opera, recently revived in Los Angeles. On February 15, Chic…
The production, which opens Sunday, illustrates the volume of music that emanated from labels like Chess, Vee-Jay and Brunswick on Chicago's "Record Row."
The Chicago premiere of the historical musical drama Dessa Rose will be presented by Bailiwick Chicago beginning March 6 prior to an official opening March 9.
The national touring company of "Motown: The Musical" will exit Chicago after no more than six months and head to Detroit and elsewhere, the producers announced on Thursday. &…