A dazzling new production of the long-running Broadway revival CHICAGO directed and choreographed by Broadway veteran Gerry McIntyre opens Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston's 45th anniv…
It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' round-up. Today's photos feature Mother's Day SIPs from Kinky Boots, CHICAGO, NEWSIES and more, plus …
There is churchly ambience to “Henry VIII,” which opened Wednesday night at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Catholic clergymen clad in red vestments descend the central aisle to the…
Robert "Bob" Sickinger, widely considered "the father of Chicago's Off Loop theater movement," and the man instrumental in the founding of the hugely influential Hull House Theater at Broadw…
Robert Sickinger, a director who played an significant role in shaping Chicago's modern theatre scene, died May 9 in Delray Beach, FL. He was 86.
A revised production of In the Company of Men, an early play by Neil LaBute better known for its controversial film version, premieres May 10 at Chicago's Profiles Theatre.
A fascinating phenomenon is occurring in the theater, one which was elucidated by many shows that I saw in Chicago over the past couple of weeks. As the art of playwriting (to wit: storytell…
England's King Henry VIII is familiar to us as the man who had six wives, who severed ties with the Roman Catholic Church in order to divest himself of one of them, had another beheaded, and…
Picking the upcoming opening nights Picking the upcoming opening nights.
Robert Sickinger, a pivotal figure in the development of Chicago's Off-Loop theater scene died on Thursday morning at his home in Delary Beach Florida. Sickinger was 86. His daughter, Eri…
THE PLAY’S NOT REALLY THE THING, THE PRODUCTION IS Further earning a proud name, Chicago Shakespeare Theater has produced Henry VIII for the first time in professional Chicago theater …
SECONDS WHICH SHOULD BE SKIPPED, NOT SPLIT Within the messy, overwritten and frustrating new script, If You Split A Second, is a potentially interesting premise: In an instant of unthinking …
I REMEMBER THE AMUSEMENT PARK BUT FORGOT WHAT THE RIDE WAS ABOUT The more I think about the Hypocrites' latest theater spectacle, Ivywild, the more entranced I feel about the imaginative pro…
Oklahoma! feels right at home in one of the world's great opera houses, showing how the definition of works to be performed here can change even as the institution's mission remains constant…
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CORNOGRAPHY It's been 70 years since Rodgers and Hammerstein ushered in the "golden era" of Broadway musicals with Oklahoma! and some dust has settled on the green corn of the 40s. Well, an …
BIG FISH, a new musical based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, just had its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatr…
The world premiere of the new musical Big Fish, based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August, concludes its pre-Broadway engageme…
PLEASE, SIR, I WANT SOME MOOR Alas, this is mainly a review of record: This is the final weekend to savor the triumphant revival of the Joffrey Ballet's Othello. Originally given its world p…
PERFECTED STORIES Ever since Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories premiered at South Coast Rep in 1996, and especially after it hit the Broadway boards starring Linda Lavin in 2010, the…
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"New Dance Horizons II," a showcase for local ensembles, returns.
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Classical Musical at Washington National Opera at The Kennedy Center. This is not my first time on the Boat. Back in 2009, I was part of Signature Theatre…
LiveWire Chicago is looking to donate some of the stock from our set of A Permanent Image closing May 5. Stock includes: 2 flats that are 4x8, 2 flats that are 2x8, 4 jacks at 10ft, 1 jack a…
On Saturday night, the Lyric Opera of Chicago officially gets into the business of Broadway musicals.