4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
Prolific playwright Ike Holter turns his incisive gaze toward the Chicago storefront theater scene in this meta dramedy at Steep Theatre.
Duty and autonomy collide in this earnest investigation of modern parenting.
Windy City Playhouse's revival of Michael Frayn's backstage comedy is exactly what it satirizes: a soulless execution of entertainment industry mores.
The latest from wordsmith Will Eno concerns the limitations of language.
Based on the cult horror franchise of the same name, this 2003 musical is a bloody good time.
What is broken and what can be fixed are essential and uneasy questions in this local premiere from playwright Hansol Jung.
Written more than four hundred years ago, this play about collective resolve against singular authority remains urgently contemporary.
This world premiere from Vanguard Arts Collective suggests that the best tool for fighting sexual assault is...more sexual assault.
The world is a mess. Go spend a couple of hours with the March women. You'll be glad you did.
Can the anthropomorphic heroes of Nickelodeon's staggeringly successful "PAW Patrol" rescue the American theater by turning a legion of device-addicted toddlers into future theater patrons? …
Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play is as heartbreaking and hilarious as ever.
The local premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri play is a meditation on identity and community in crisis.
For their tenth anniversary, RE|Dance offers two works that together are a spectral musing on what it means to be civically engaged in today's complex sociopolitical climate.
They are descending on Chicago from around the globe to relate these stories.
Puppetry, dance and performance in January.
Site-specific suffragettes, "All Our August," plays at Trader Joe's: local dramaturgs share their interests and ambitions.
A hit from Humana, the second of three world premieres from Ike Holter and the woman hidden in the history of DNA are just a few of the productions debuting in the first month of the new yea…
Collaboration, in an age when funding for the arts has thinned to a pitiful trickle, turned out to be a font of creative abundance.
It's the story of artists.
If you've got holiday money burning a hole in your pocket, Chicago Shakespeare Theater offers a wondrous outlet.
Returning to its original home at The Neo-Futurarium, The Ruffians' annual holiday tradition remains as anarchic, hilarious, and deeply terrifying as ever.
This Steppenwolf Theatre Company world premiere from local playwright Isaac Gomez serves as a promise to keep alive the true stories upon which this play is based.
Now in its fourth year, this Chicago-originating musical, based on the movie "Elf," moves to Pride Films and Plays, losing none of its willful cheer.
Theo Ubique christens their new home in Evanston with a production that shows just how far they haven't come.
This multidisciplinary performance at the MCA's off-site warehouse space addresses issues of race, opposition, hostility, identity and disappearance, bringing into question what it means to …
