The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has confirmed the appointment of Chris Jones, chief theater critic and a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, as Director of the O'Neill's National Critics In…
Chicago Tribune chief theatre critic Chris Jones has been appointed director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Critics Institute.
A PLAY THAT PUTS YOU INTO THE COLD TAKES YOU OUT OF THE COLD When The House Theatre of Chicago decided to bring Rose and the Rime back to the stage this winter, they couldn’t have pred…
The story is silly fun, and the music is the major draw for the fantastic Mr. Chickee's Funny Money, with Lamont and Paris Doziers delivering a memorable score that has this reviewer crossin…
From "Plainsong" to "Crime and Punishment."
Sophia Bush on Law Enforcement Training for "Chicago PD" The YH Studio welcomes the lovely Sophia Bush, who stops by to scoop us on her badass role as a detective on the NBC crime drama seri…
Kris Jenner, star of Keeping Up With the Kardashians on E, admitted on Sunday to friend Jonathan Cheban and her daughter Kim Kardashian that she loves the song 'All That Jazz' and has been t…
Kris Jenner, star of E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians, has Broadway ambitions even though she’s not a singer, dancer or actress by trade. Check out this snippet from the Janu…
Jeff Garlin, the Chicago comic and improviser who found fame after his stint on the HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm," is headed home for a series of intimate gigs at the Zanies comedy club.&n…
Tony Award winner Rob Ashford, most recently represented on Broadway with the 2013 revival of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, will direct the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel for the …
Acclaimed mezzo soprano Denyce Graves has been announced as a lead performer in acclaimed directorchoreographer Rob Ashford's upcoming production of Rodgers amp Hammerstein's classic musical…
Seth Bockley's new comedy runs May 25-June 22.
AN EXALTATION OF LARK We all know Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, and The Children's Hour, even the 1977 film Julia, based on her book Pentimento. But The Lar…
The British comedian Eddie Izzard, known for his cross-dressing and also his highly intelligent comic material, is to return to Chicago in June. The Chicago gig is part of Izzard's "Force Ma…
NO CLOSURE EVER A tangle of shifting sympathies and treacherous turns, Johnna Adams' spare 75-minute, two-hander one-act teeters on a knife edge during every burning second. Its setting and …
In producing Broadway's longest-running musical revival, the marketing geniuses behind "Chicago" have alchemized stunt casting into its own special kind of dark art.
DONE TO DEATH A ton of fun gets dumped in this calculated musical spinoff from Mel Brooks' funniest film. As with The Producers, Brooks' expanded version of Young Frankenstein (with his own …
MDQ Chicago :15 second spot Inspired by the true story of the legendary 1956 recording session, which united famous rock 'n' roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis a…
Seven former Chicago stars we'd like to see follow in Bebe Neuwirth's footsteps and return to the long-running Broadway musical.
Myriad musicals hit local stages, including "Chicago" at Segerstrom Center, "The Light in the Piazza" at South Coast Rep, "Forever Plaid" at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and "The Produ…
Picking the upcoming opening nights The stories of the patrons of an Asian restaurant are told in Roland Schimmelpfennig's stylized play, "The Golden Dragon." And others. …
Once was the time, when it came to performing arts, that Chicago was a great place to come from. But thanks to the constant upward trajectory of our community, Chicago is now a great place t…