Broadway In Chicago has announced the upcoming 2013 fall season line-up. Broadway In Chicago’s 2013 fall season will include BUDDY, FLASHDANCE, TO MASTER THE ART, EVITA, ONCE and ELF. …
Two productions in Chicago, "Teddy Ferrara" and "columbinus," exemplifies the challenges that playwrights face when they draw on a specific real-life events.
Nora Dunn, a prominant former cast member of "Saturday Night Live," is to premiere a new one-woman show at Theatre Wit in Chicago this summer.
PARADOXICAL DUALITIES It's brainy almost beyond endurance and savvy in its approach/avoidance strategies of gaming love. Happily, Itamar Moses' Completeness at Theater Wit is also engrossing…
Something old, something new and something born and bred in Chicago. That's the mix for Broadway in Chicago's 2013 fall season lineup which will include: "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" (June…
Broadway In Chicago has announced TO MASTER THE ART by William Brown and Doug Frew, directed by William Brown will play the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Che…
This is Julius Caesar that shouldn't be missed. This is one of those productions that lets Chicago theater fans see how lucky we are to have such a talent pool that we can populate a huge pr…
The first national tour of "Once," the Tony Award-winning musical based on the movie of the same name about an Irish street musican and his Czech angel, is headed to Chicago. "Once" will pla…
THEATER REVIEW: "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology" by Collaboraction Theatre Company ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology" by Collaboraction Theatre C…
(POSTED BY DOUG GEORGE) Levi Kreis, the original Jerry Lee Lewis in "Million Dollar Quartet," is slated to perform at Davenport’s Piano Bar in Chicago.
The new touring production of "Les Miserables," which was a huge hit in Chicago this fall, is headed back to Broadway, producer Cameron Mackintosh announced Tuesday.
EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, in conjunction with Choose Chicago and Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events(DCASE…
Four leading Chicago contemporary dance companies, each helmed by a female artistic director " The Dance COLEctive, Hedwig Dances, Same Planet Different World Dance Theatre an…
TWO BATTLES IN ONE WAR As sturdily written and swiftly moving as it was in 1982, Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play remains an enduring testament to the homefront battles that African-America…
Broadway In Chicago has announced that Wicked will return to Chicago — where the hit musical had played a lengthy, sit-down run — in celebration of its 10th anniversary on Broadw…
Tickets on sale for the return of TEDxWindyCity taking place February 23, 2013, at Northwestern Law's 725-seat Thorne Auditorium. The 2013 event will be held from 9:00 am – 7:00 pm,…
SPRINGING INTO SPRING In Chicago, spring can never come early enough. But, alas, it's February, so it has to be an indoor sport. Leave it to our homegrown dance company, the Joffrey Ballet,�…
As you enter Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Court Theater to see English director Jonathan Munby’s take on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, you know you’re in for somethin…
The Broadway musical "Wicked," which ran for more than three-and-a-half years in a dedicated Chicago production from 2005 to 2009, is making another return visit to the city that so embraced…
RECOMMENDED "What the hell is Mike Tyson gonna do up here on stage tonight?" This is the thought that Tyson attributes to every member of the audience early on in "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Tru…
The Dinner Party makes a fun and tasty evening out at an affordable price, not so formal as a concert or theatrical event or so casual as dinner and drinks, but with elements of each. (read…
Mercury Theater Chicago, 3745 N. Southport, announces an all-star cast of award-winning actors for the circus-themed musical BARNUM, previewing March 27, opening on Thursday, April 4 a…
There is a compulsion today to jam a play’s relevance down the audience’s throat"spicing up classical texts with easily digestible contemporary settings. Too often though, what w…
When you're a young aspiring rock star, you start out in your parents' garage. Why should it be any different if you're an aspiring theater artist? Chicago's Steppenwolf doesn't think it sh…
YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LENDÂ THIS PRODUCTION YOUR EARS Brutal and relentless, Julius Caesar chronicles a fateful course of envy and revenge defeating idealism and loyalty: Brutus and C…