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This is a huge production with a sing-it-to-the-hilt cast with huge voices.
Playwright Inda Craig-Galván's 'Welcome To Matteson' is on stage this season at Northwestern University's Abbott Hall.
This is very much the story of one family and its experience of coming to America in search of a better life.
This jukebox musical about Johnny Cash feels like a collective concert.
Enough with comparisons to that meaningless term, "normal."
In a fall season packed full of comedians, highlights include D.L. Hughley, Ben Schwartz, Gabriel Iglesias and Trevor Noah.
The recently announced world premiere "Death Becomes Her" is also joined by "Peter Pan" and a return for "Mamma Mia!"
In the second half, this show about soul music, food and memories takes a personal turn.
A pre-Broadway tryout of a musical version of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis movie "Death Becomes Her" is coming in 2024 to the Cadillac Palace Theatre.
Chicago theater-goers can also look forward to operas at Lyric, "POTUS" at Steppenwolf and a "Twelfth Night" transported to the Caribbean.
While these are not the only options, our fall dance guide will hopefully peel back one layer of a rich art form and make you eager to see more.
Laurie Videka Krizka, of Homer Glen, has performed with the Beverly Theater Guild or other community theater groups in the Chicago area for over three decades.
Along with the return of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical is its #HAM4HAM ticket lottery.
You worry hard here for Madame Rose, disappointed in life and love. And you sure as heck feel for June and Louise.
The theater said Thursday that it was laying off 12% of its staff.
Congo Square Theatre Company is producing "Welcome to Matteson!" Sept. 6-Oct. 1 at Abbott Hall on the Chicago campus of Northwestern University.
"The Magic Parlour," performed for some 15 years at the Palmer House, is moving to Petterino's.
Theater in both Chicago and America has changed so much since 2019, it is almost unrecognizable. A long list of our storefront companies have closed.
The Tony Award winner will direct "Purpose" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, about an Illinois family at the center of Black American politics.
Current headliners include Nate Bargatze, Russell Peters, John Crist and Nicole Byer.
John Berendt's bestseller is set in Savannah, Georgia, and became a 1997 Clint Eastwood movie.
The unsparing British play by Ella Hickson is having its U.S. premiere in Chicago.
Nominations are in for this year's 55th anniversary awards for Chicago-area theater.
At the Nederlander Theatre in the Loop, the atmosphere was electric and the action on stage was halted several times for standing ovations.
This musical is bold in theme and rewards those who see the show in an intimate space.
