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Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble members Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood will be featured in LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater's production of "Pass Over," it was announced Wednesday. The…
It's New Year's Eve, 1944. Three days earlier, this newspaper had published a review by Claudia Cassidy admonishing each and every Chicagoan not to miss a play called "The Glass Menagerie" w…
Rainn Wilson, best known for playing the mercurial character of Dwight Schrute on "The Office" (U.S. version on NBC) and intern Arthur Martin on HBO's "Six Feet Under," is playing the lead i…
Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles has announced its upcoming seasons at the Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre, which will include two productions with Chicago ties. Lucas Hnath's "…
Remy Bumppo is hanging in there. This midsize Chicago theater " its budget hovers around $1 million " is in the riskiest sector of the Chicago theater, as we all learned with the loss of Ame…
Munster's Theatre at the Center announced the cast of its spring musical "Forever Plaid" Monday. The production will feature Matt Edmonds as Sparky, Adam LaSalle as Francis, Yando Lopez as J…
Caught in a poetic no man's land between Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Wilfred Owen's grim battlefield verses, Stephen Massicotte's World War I-era drama, "Ma…
"Anna Karenina" âœâœâœ There aren't many towns in the world where you can roll up and find a completely new adaptation of the jottings of Leo Tolstoy. As you can currently find i…
Should children be taught of the imminence of their own death in much the same way that they are taught their ABCs? Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women" " now on Broadway in an extraordinarily …
Saturday "Mary's Wedding": First Folio Theatre presents a love story that travels back in time to World War I. Through April 29 at Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 31st St., Oak Brook; 630-986-…
Daniel Kyri will star in The Gift Theatre's production of "Hamlet," the Jefferson Park company announced Thursday. Along with Kyri as the tragic Prince of Denmark, "Hamlet" will feature Nett…
In 1967, actress Katharine Houghton was cast by director Stanley Kramer in the role of Joanna in a movie called "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." She was to play the scion of a newspaper edito…
"Because of a financial shortfall, the Symphony Orchestra's board of directors have scheduled a special meeting late Thursday afternoon to see if the group will be able to find a way to affo…
John Mulaney is making a Netflix comeback. On May 1, the 35-year old Chicago native will release his third special: "John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City." The special, filmed during Mul…
As the movie "Pretty Woman" made a star of a young Julia Roberts, so "Pretty Woman The Musical," likely will do the same for the sensational 27-year-old Manx actress Samantha Barks. She's gr…
"Saturday Night Live" veteran Julia Sweeney will perform her one-woman show on the Second City's e.t.c stage next month, it was announced Wednesday. "Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider," Sweeney…
Act 1 of the new musical at the Broadway Playhouse, "A Taste of Things to Come," is set in a Winnetka kitchen in 1957, amid women bonding over (and singing about) pregnancy, cooking, thwarte…
"Pretty Woman: The Musical," Chicago's next pre-Broadway tryout, opens tomorrow at the Oriental Theatre. Here's a sneak peek at how the new show, based on the Julia Roberts and Richard Gere …
Space is a perennial crisis in the Chicago theater. There's not enough of it obtainable for affordable rent. And when a theater decides to try and make more, the build-out costs tend to be a…
The conceptual director Mary Zimmerman will return to the Lookingglass Theatre next season with a new family-friendly project called "The Steadfast Tin Soldier: A Christmas Pantomime," Looki…
Just 17 days after the filming ended for Stanley Kramer's beloved 1967 movie, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," its star, Spencer Tracy, died of cancer. Tracy's mortality is very evident in th…
NEW YORK " We may all be fabulous creatures in our own heads but, heaven forfend, we are doomed by the brevity of our individual lifespans to keep repeating the same mistakes. How could any …
"How does any organization make it to 55?" asked executive director Michael McStraw on stage at the Harris Theater Saturday. A valid question, though Giordano Dance Chicago, which McStraw le…
"I'd die before you'd put me in a home," says the old Irish lady. "Aye," says her daughter, "hopefully." That's not a slogan you generally read in the mailers for The Mather, The Claire, The…
Assistant to Chief Boden on the long-running NBC hit "Chicago Fire," the no-nonsense Connie, played by DuShon Monique Brown, always keeps everyone in check. On Friday, Brown died a little af…
