Mr. Cellophane shoulda been is his name! Tony nominee Christopher Fitzgerald is going to be anything but invisible, inconsequential when he takes over the role of Amos Hart in the long-runni…
Podcast with cast of Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s CYRANO De BERGERAC from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. A insightful discussion about bringing this classic to modern day audiences, with c…
Two-time Tony Award nominee Christopher Fitzgerald will join the long-running, Tony-winning revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's Chicago beginning Oct. 28 at the Ambassador Theatre.
In this gaudy Mama Mia look-alike, everyone is mugging at such a ferocious volume that it can only be matched by the massive live band playing over all. Slick as an iPhone, We Will Rock You…
When I started going to the Chicago film festival in the late 1990s, the child prodigy Mark Zuckerberg was just learning computer programming via Atari software (does anyone even remember th…
Even though, it has been said that the art of cabaret is no longer a viable form of entertainment, Sunday's CCP Gala at Chicago's Park West proved these nay-say are very wrong. Chicago Cabar…
REINVENTING ROCK A huge West End hit for over a decade, this compilation jukebox musical does for Queen what Mamma Mia! did for ABBA, Buddy for Buddy Holly and the Crickets, and Jersey Boys …
You can see Harry & the Thief for its message, its spectacle, its action, or its humor, but you should definitely see it. Most of all, see this production because Pavement Group present…
Two Tony Award-winning Chicago theatre companies — the Goodman and Steppenwolf — will take part in the 3rd annual Flag Football Game Oct. 26.
RECOMMENDED The Chicago Mammal’s "ALL GIRL FRANKENSTEIN" is more akin to sculpture, film, dance, performance art or poetry than strictly narrative-based theater. But, as a Rorschac…
If you've been reading my blog from the beginning, you know that by the time the second week of the Chicago International Film Festival comes along, I've turned into a cantankerous, bleary-e…
Broadway In Chicago is honored to announce that WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will spend its 10th anniversary with Chicago audiences, celebrating ten phenomenal years on B…
Last night, Oct. 20, Broadway vet Elaine Stritch attended the Chicago International Film Festival, taking in a screening of her film Elaine Stritch SHOOT ME - afterwards, she partook in a Qa…
On Monday, October 21 stage and screen veteran Roz Ryan, who currently plays Matron “Mama” Morton in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning smash hit musical Chicago, breaks a longt…
Broadway In Chicago has just announced that WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster, will spend its 10th anniversary with Chicago audiences, celebrating ten phenomenal years on Broadway, Wedn…
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch delighted the Chicago International Film Festival audience of the new documentary, "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me," at AMC River East on Sunday afternoon by part…
Today, October 21, the company of Broadway's Tony Award-winning, record-breaking smash hit musical Chicago celebrates yet another record-breaking milestone.
On Oct. 21 Roz Ryan, who currently plays Matron "Mama" Morton in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, breaks a longtime company record with the most performances of any leading act…
I'm always blown away by Puccini's haunting way he captures the misery of loving deeply and tragically. For diehard and wannabe opera lovers, this Madama Butterfly is especially exquisite. …
For an opera with a long and troubled history, about a troubled man who was a revolutionary leader two centuries ago of a still troubled nation, the decades-belated Chicago premiere of "Trou…
By HowlRound. From October 31-November 2 nd , HowlRound, in partnership with the Latina/o Theatre Commons will host the largest formal gathering of Latina/o theater-makers since 1986 at Emer…
BOYS WILL BE MONSTERS William Golding's 1954 cautionary thriller depicts a world on the edge of nuclear war. But when a plane crashes, a tiny portion of humanity is given a do-over. Tragical…
The Table Derived by the Company Directed by Mark Down Chicago Shakespeare at Navy Pier (map) thru …
A PUPPET IN THE WILDERNESS In The Table, a curious creation now on its first U.S. tour, three members of the U.K.'s Blind Summit puppet theater depict a garrulous Bunraku-style hand puppet, …