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The Chicago company is selling a building it own just south of its main campus, where it already has three theaters of various sizes.
Saturday "Plantation!": A Texas family discovers the roots of its ancestral home in this world premiere directed by David Schwimmer. Through April 22 at Lookingglass Theatre, 821 N. Michigan…
"I started Cloud Gate with no professional experience behind me," said Lin Hwai-min in a phone interview with the Tribune. The Taiwanese writer begin seriously studying dance at age 23 while…
Stage 773 will present a new open forum series, the company announced Monday. Hosted by the Young Professionals Board of Stage 773, the first event is slated for April 2. The panel, about di…
Nearly a year after his death at 90, Chuck Berry is getting the bio-musical treatment at Black Ensemble Theater. The man who helped create rock and roll music (as well as writing, well, "Roc…
Are cops a force for good? In his three compelling mystery plays about the Chicago Police Department " "A Steady Rain" in 2008, "The Detective's Wife" in 2011 and, here in 2018, "Six Corners…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company plans to sell a landmark building just south of its main campus, in a deal expected to fund construction of a large new theater and other improvements to the Hals…
"Blind Date" âœâœâœ Rogelio Martinez's "Blind Date" is a world premiere drama that returns us to the 1985 meeting in Geneva between President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev,…
First you walk into the laundromat. Someone hits the spin-cyle button, a panel gives way and then you head into the room for the magic. A very nice 1930s-style, 120-seat salon. Replete with …
Ballet is about legacy. Works are passed down from mentor to student, until the student becomes the mentor to someone else. It was three years ago Feb. 22 that Ivan Nagy, one of ballet's gre…
"Diet Coke Ginger Lime," says the red-headed guy on the low-rent couch, taking a swig on his beverage of choice as he stares into a camera that feels not unlike the one in your cracked smart…
The gritty romance of the war photographer/correspondent has long cast a spell for writers and filmmakers. (Think "The Year of Living Dangerously" or "The Bang Bang Club.") Often, they strug…
At the end of last year, 20 Chicago theater companies received a seasonal surprise: quiet $10,000 checks from the newly formed Bayless Family Foundation. The only significant condition? A wi…
The Wolves are players on a fictional, under-17 girls soccer team, the scourge of their suburban league. But the play by Sarah DeLappe that created them isn't so much a work about the world'…
There was a standing ovation after the world premiere of "Birth of a Nation" at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The film, about the 1831 slave uprising led by Nat Turner, was directed, prod…
Sometime in the mid-1980s, writer Keith Huff found himself at what is now the Brown Line station near Lawrence and Western avenues. As he was walking up the stairs to the platform, he heard …
Sunday "Anna Karenina": A world premiere adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel, about a woman torn between two worlds, opens at Lifeline Theatre. Through April 8 at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N…
While growing up in the northwest suburbs, I have vivid memories of my parents bringing me downtown to the Auditorium Theatre to watch American Ballet Theatre. For a young student of ballet,…
Court Theatre will stage two world premieres, from Manual Cinema and David Auburn, in its 64th season, as well as plays from August Wilson, Anna Ziegler and Ntozake Shange, the Hyde Park com…
Philip Earl Johnson and Scott Jaeck will lead Robert Falls' new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People," Goodman Theatre announced Tuesday. Johnson will play Thomas Stockmann w…
It's 11 o'clock on a Saturday night inside the Wintrust Arena " the stadium and event center that opened in the fall next to McCormick Place and is the home court for the DePaul Blue Demons …
The American playwright Antoinette Nwandu made such extraordinary progress between "Breach," which is the kind of predictably self-questioning play most writers get out of their systems in s…
Most shows save their full-throated power ballads for late in the night. But at "Love Never Dies," the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-smash "The Phantom of Opera," the lush strings are…
Victory Gardens Theater will stage the Chicago premiere of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated drama "Indecent" as part of its 44th season, along with two more Chicago premieres and two world…
The NBC police drama "Chicago P.D." was "slammed," the Tribune reported in a Wednesday headline, for filming too close to the Thompson Center in Chicago's Loop, where Chicago police Cmdr. Pa…
