4,000 stories from Newcity Stage
The local premiere of this Samuel D. Hunter play at Griffin Theatre Company gives audience to the private suffering of its postulants.
With seven companies whose specialties range from pointe to head spins, the "Dance For Life" program promises to be not only a worthy fundraiser, but one of the most eclectic dance concerts …
Dance moves outdoors for the summer, from Dance Downs in the Parks to performances on the MCA grounds.
Looking ahead to a few of Chicago's theater highlights for August.
Returning to the Goodman Theatre a year after suffering a heart attack while on its stage, Stacy Keach consummates his performance of the tumultuous, iconic Ernest Hemingway in this affectin…
Like the fields tilled by the victims of Holodomor, Abbey Fenbert's new play at Red Theater Chicago needs air and space in order to properly grow.
Eclipse Theatre Company's William Inge season continues with this 1955 play about getting lost in order to get found.
The annual tap festival is a chance to see the boundary-pushing work of CHRP's first ever artist in residence Dani Borak.
Love and intimacy remain elusive in the Chicago premiere of MJ Kaufman's play at Redtwist Theatre.
Drawn in clear and cutting language, Kristiana Rae Colón's latest receives its must-see world premiere at Sideshow Theatre Company.
Receiving its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Rajiv Joseph's latest panders to its audience under the guise of challenging their assumptions about despotism and loyalty.
Dancers take to the air in a show about freedom, potential and flight.
This world premiere musical tells the story of the architect behind the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
The Conspirators present a multi-level satire of just about everything in this sharp-edged and in touch production.
Japanese Taiko, aerial artistry and an annual tap festival take the stage in July.
The longstanding, wildly popular partner-dance series has evolved into a festival that ties together social dance, live music, spectatorship and professional performances.
Erin Shea Brady talks with casting director Catherine Miller and actors Emilie Modaff and Avi Roque about breaking down the binary in theater and performance.
Some of July's Chicago theater highlights.
Lifeline Theatre's remount of their adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel is inventive in design and powerful in its representation.
Monty Cole's unapologetically irreverent adaptation of Shakespeare's classic at The Gift Theatre focuses on grief instead of madness.
These four stories of women and their bodies at Theatre Y make the public private and vice versa.
This justice-charged work from For Youth Inquiry proves that art for change and art for joy are not mutually exclusive.
Broken Nose Theatre's production of Sam Chanse's play captures the absurd melancholy of life in the sixth mass extinction.
A romance that follows an immigrant girl and her suitor on a journey through Chicago neighborhoods.
Those who are gone ensure that they are not forgotten in the world premiere of Isaac Gomez's thriller at Haven Theatre.
