4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
Strawdog Theatre Company's immersive season opener is a bold choice though one that stops short of creating a communal experience.
At American Blues Theater, Pearl Cleage's stunning historical melodrama remains an essential addendum to the history of American expansion.
A redux of Terrance McNally's less-than-successful "Broadway, Broadway," Pride Films and Plays' production reminds us just what's in a name: quite a lot.
Porchlight Music Theatre launches its 2018/19 season with the dazzle and awe of a shooting star.
Tere O'Connor's new work finds its thematic roots in complexity, and tenders a paired down, aesthetic sparsity that concurrently riles and calms through carefully cultivated structures and f…
Make Room, T'Challa: Jimmy de las Rosas is coming to town (and Free Street Theater)!
Trap Door Theatre's staging of "Naked" by Luigi Pirandello is a little bit too close to reality to warrant production.
The most arresting moments in "Odeon" were the most intimate, with direct play between the music and movement.
In a major coup, Steppenwolf for Young Adults lands the first local-originating production of Simon Stephens' Tony Award-winning play and makes the most of it.
Structured as a series of vignettes across a range of contemporary issues, this Midwest premiere at Steep Theatre puts increasing distance between itself and its audience.
This well-intended world premiere from The New Colony feels like another in a long line of excuses for the very people it is trying to hold accountable: men.
Jen Silverman's play about the absurd world and its power dynamics burns an indelible image into the mind at Facility Theatre.
The full list of winners at the first ever ALTA Awards.
Written in the nineties and set in the fifties, the young women of Lynn Nottage's play, currently being produced at Raven Theatre, eagerly await a revolution that has still yet to materializ…
If "DDR" brings to mind not "Dance Dance Revolution" but "Deutsche Demokratische Republik", The Artistic Home's production of this Tom Stoppard play is probably for you.
The world premiere of Jen Silverman's play at Writers Theatre is a must-see for anyone who has ever considered the value of burning it all to the ground and starting again.
In this world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris attempts to redress the power imbalance between the disenfranchised and those who wield …
The Chicago premiere of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated play is an impressionistic journey through the history of a controversy.
Alexis J. Roston fully embodies the beauty and tragedy of Billie Holiday in Congo Square Theatre's reprised production.
Firebrand Theatre and TimeLine Theatre Company's co-produce this stirring revival with book and lyrics by Tony Kushner and music Jeanine Tesori.
The collaboration between Movement Art Is, Emma Portner and Third Coast Percussion is potent, urgent and highly topical.
This month features a slate of local, regional and national premieres as well as a feminist opera celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
Combining his years as an improv artist with the storytelling possibilities of radio, Nate Herman's Films for the Ears produce one-of-a-kind, off-the-cuff events.
October dance runs the gamut from whimsical to profound, narrative to abstract, in styles and genres to suit every taste.
The themes in Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre center around some of the most pressing questions of our time, and the room emotionally transforms as dancers physically interpret deeply personal m…
