Chicago, which ended a 15-year run in the West End last year, is to receive a brand-new production in the UK at Leicester's Curve, beginning performances Nov. 29 prior to an official ope…
What has happened to social media and the way we communicate The parody 'Chats' is here to answer that very question.
Brigadoon, the musical fantasy of two Americans stumbling onto a Scottish village lost in time, will get a major revival by Goodman Theatre in Chicago in summer 2014. With permission from th…
It's almost like being in love Goodman Theatre proudly announces a Summer 2014 production of the 1947 musical Brigadoon, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewem…
PUPPET SHOW Ethan Lipton's Luther received rave reviews when it premiered in New York last June, yet it enjoyed only a brief run. So it makes sense that Steep Theater would want to try out t…
Victory Gardens Theater and League of Chicago Theatres host a town hall discussion entitled “Playing Race” livestreaming on the open-source #NEWPLAY TV channel on Thursday,…
Stage Left Theatre announces the upcoming Chicago premiere of Rabbit written by Nina Raine and directed by Elly Green. Rabbit is the third production of Stage Left's 31st seas…
The Hollywood Bowl’s 2013 summer season will include an all-star production of Chicago, Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth, John Williams: Maestro of the Movies narrated by Julie Andrews an…
The Hollywood Bowl has announced its 2013 summer season, and it's just as extensive and eclectic as fans of the venue have come to expect. "I think that at the Bowl we want to have something…
The Hollywood Bowl has announced its 2013 summer season, which will include a star-studded production of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association today announced the Hollywood Bowl summer 2013 subscription series and single events for its 92nd season at the historic venue. The Hollywood Bowl is…
A DAISY CHAIN OF DEAD ENDS MAKES FOR INVIGORATING THEATER Shattered Globe Theatre has uncovered yet another tailspinning drama to live up to their name. British playwright Lucinda Cox shows …
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that individual tickets forCATCH ME IF YOU CAN go on-sale to the public Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 at 10 a.m.  Based on the hit DreamWorks film…
RECOMMENDED Actor/magician Dennis Watkins, hot off of last year's widely praised extended run of "Death and Harry Houdini," is currently enjoying an open run of his one-man magic show, "The …
Lesley Nicol, who will pay tribute to the namesake of the Chicago Cultural Center's noontime concerts, plays Mrs. Patmore on the PBS hit. Demanding as the kitchen boss can be, Nicol conclude…
BONDAGE IN EGYPT AND VIRGINIA Of the 150,000 Jews who lived in the U.S during the Civil War, twice as many (6,000) fought for the Union as for the Confederacy. Less well-known is the fact th…
A CIRCUS BUT NO BREAD The theater space is a cavernous church gym with lousy acoustics. The intrepid thespians at Red Tape Theatre transform it into the title setting, an arena of death with…
RELIABLE CROWD-PLEASER ONCE AGAIN, WELL, PLEASES THE CROWD Puccini's La Bohème has succeeded numerous times at Lyric Opera since its first performance in 1954, but their newest production i…
Fran and Harvey Kaluzna and Amy Robbins have had some of the best roles on stage that money can buy. That's because the three suburbanites are annual participants in the Chicago Casting Auct…
Why wander when potential riches are just ahead to the south? At first glance, the Chicago Cultural Mile ("Where Culture & Commerce Meet") resembles nothing so much as a gerrymandered congr…
A SPECTACULAR AND FASCINATING JOURNEY IN WHICH THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM Cameras have evolved from room-sized camera obscuras, to the box-like contraption of the nineteenth century, to the…
Oscar is breaking out his dancing shoes. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of the 85th Academy Awards, announced the upcoming telecast will feature a special tribute to movie musicals of…
The musical as a motion picture genre has had a remarkable renaissance in the last decade, said producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. We are excited to showcase three musical films -- 'Chica…
The Leicester Curve will mark its fifth anniversary this Christmas with a "brand new" production of multi award-winning musical Chicago. Directed by Curve artistic director Paul Kerryson, …
If you've never seen La Bohème, you should see this production. It'll make you an opera lover (and maybe a better lover). If you've seen it before, you should revisit this La Bohème. It…