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Friday "Flies! The Musical": This world premiere is part parody of "Lord of the Flies," part high school musical. Through June 10 at the Broadway at Pride Arts Center, 4139 N. Broadway; 800-…
Here's a trivia question for you: What was the first jukebox musical? The answer isn't "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical," nor "Jersey Boys" or "Motown: The Musical." It wasn't "Million D…
"I almost didn't make it here," Leslie Odom Jr. said in his Tony acceptance speech in 2016. There's a story behind that, and he tells it here. It's almost impossible to imagine anyone else o…
Dance for Life Chicago announced the lineup of companies for their August 18 benefit performance, marking the event's 27th annual staging. The partner dance companies that perform each year …
Nothing has changed, but everything is changing. That's the first gut reaction to "Columbinus," the docudrama about the 1999 attacks at Columbine High School that ended with 15 dead, includi…
On Monday, Sideshow Theatre Company announced casting for its world premiere of Kristiana Rae Colon's 'Tilikum.' Directed by Lili-Anne Brown, the show will feature Sideshow ensemble member M…
"Hamilton," the phenomenally successful musical written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, brought so much posthumous celebrity to Alexander Hamilton that America's first secretary of the t…
On Friday, the Goodman Theatre announced the cast for its Chicago premiere of "Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)" by Suzan-Lori Parks. The show was a 2015 finalist for the Pul…
On Friday, Underscore Theatre and the Den Theatre announced casting for a new staging of "Haymarket," a folk- and blues-infused musical that chronicles the fallout of the 1886 Chicago Haymar…
For the last 412 years, "Macbeth" has been a great bear of a play to produce. I don't mean because it's boring (it's not), or suffering of a deficiency poetical (hardly), or lacking great ch…
On Friday, City Lit announced its 2018-19 season, with a roster of five different shows. Starting things off in the fall will be George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," directed by Brian P…
Chicago's famed improv comedy theater Second City is teaming up with DePaul University to offer degrees in comedy filmmaking. The comedy troupe already has its own film school but is collabo…
The stock market closed lower Wednesday but stock in Apple soared. The reason was not growth in iPhone sales " in fact, analysts reported, the level of demand for the costly new iPhone X see…
The young artists of Albany Park Theater Project have explored the theme of "home" many times in the past, including in their celebrated production of "Home/Land," which looked at the plight…
"Birdland" âœâœâœâœ Playwright Simon Stephens' "Birdland," the fabulous new show at Steep Theatre, is a totally gripping examination of what it's like to be a rock star. Can…
"Was I," said Julia Sweeney at Second City on Wednesday night, "the Al Jolson of androgyny?" The reason for the sincere self-questioning " which is an especially funny part of Sweeney's fabu…
Come with your dancing shoes, come barefoot, come as you are, this summer's lineup for Chicago SummerDance begins in June 2018 in Grant Park. The June 28 to Aug. 24 lineup, announced Thursda…
Broadway in Chicago announced on Thursday that a new 20-week block of tickets for "Hamilton" will go on sale May 8 at 10 a.m. The tickets will be available for performances from September 4 …
Laugh Factory Chicago will host a run of Jeremy Piven's stand-up performances, slated for May 10-13. Piven, an Evanston-native best known as boorish Hollywood agent Ari Gold on "Entourage," …
Prior to the restoration of a democratically elected government in 1983 and the subsequent, Nuremberg-like "Trial of the Juntas," the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 thr…
"On a personal note, I would like to announce my upcoming retirement as classical music critic of the Chicago Tribune. When I step down July 1, I will have held this position at the paper fo…
As I walked my dog near Wrigley Field the other night, the two of us stopped among the bars and the noise, and stood and stared outside 3408 N. Sheffield Ave. That address used to be the hom…
Friday "columbinus": Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli's docu-drama takes on the social ills that lead to the shooting rampage at Columbine High School. Through May 26 at Steppenwolf Theatre, 1…
Tiffany Topol and Barry DeBois are not new to "Once." Both of the stars of director Jim Corti's beautiful and moving new Paramount Theatre production were understudies on the recent national…
Firebrand Theatre announced its 2018-19 season on Tuesday, with a lineup that includes two musicals, one of them a Chicago premiere. Kicking things off in September will be a revival of the …
