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If you go and see this show, you'll never again travel through Albany Park without turning your head and looking up anew at its windows.
Jacqueline Williams is Calpurnia in the national tour of "To Kill a Mockingbird," and the Evanston native still considers this story to be as important as ever.
Frenetically paced, relentlessly comedic and visually chaotic, this show is aimed squarely at middle America. God bless it for that.
Second Bold Series launches at Copley Theatre with a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical that's hard to turn away from.
The new musical based on the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie is New York-bound.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe's music and the story of her cherished relationship with Marie Knight are revived for a new generation at Northlight Theatre.
Tickets are on sale for North Central College's upcoming performing arts season, which features a mixture of returning favorites and new performers, a variety of genres and talented college …
This is a show about never giving up. Sure, it's geared toward kids, but not exclusively so.
"I want people who are fans of him to have a great time and I want people who never listen to Michael Jackson to have a great time."
While changing little of the text, director Peter G. Andersen transforms several of the key relationships, shaking up the power dynamics and exploring complex layers in a play written more t…
This show celebrates the power ballads, guitar-driven romps and heavy-metal masterworks of 1980s classic rock, god rest its soul.
In essence, Sandy Rustin (known for "Clue," the play) has penned an ersatz version of a Noel Coward comedy, as retrofitted for today's sensibilities.
Despite my quibbles with the production, this bite-sized "Beauty and the Beast" is a good candidate to help youngsters catch the theater bug.
The audience at my performance was well aware it was sitting in a great Chicago theater, listening to the words of one of the greatest playwrights ever born.
The new show at the Broadway Theatre is as artful as it is radically inventive: Think Imelda as a needy, up-from-the-sticks Evita and you won't be far wrong.
The theater also announced the hiring of Kimberly Motes as its new executive director.
The Chicago actor Mark Ulrich has taken over the role of Spooner.
This list, with stops in Chicago and just beyond, should help those looking to experience theater in a way only summer can provide.
Up and Coming Theatre Company and Elgin Summer Theatre present the musical "Fame" July 14-23.
The playwright and director has a terrific setting and concept for a great play, but not yet that play.
This follows news last month that the current dinner-and-cirque production Cabaret ZaZou was closing.
The joke in this parody whodunit is the impossibility of the actors' collective task.
The nostalgic workplace comedy captures the absurdities of working at a Midwestern discount department store chain.
Fans get a surround-sound concert of an artist who recorded so much in so short a time.
The theater has seen audiences drop away in recent months, artistic director Heidi Stillman said.
