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The Golden Girls will make their return in Hell in a Handbag's 2018 season, along with a revival of "L'Imitation of Life" and a Charles Ludlam play, the campy Andersonville company announced…
"There is no present or future," says the character James Tyrone in "A Moon for the Misbegotten," "only the past happening over and over again " now. You can't get away from it." Sitting the…
Celeste M. Cooper and Cliff Chamberlain are joining Steppenwolf Theatre Company's storied ensemble, artistic director Anna D. Shapiro announced Thursday. Both Chicago-based actors have been …
There will be no opera singers in the Lyric's production of "Jesus Christ Superstar." Broadway performers and artists from the bands Postmodern Jukebox, Tune-Yards and Diane Coffee will star…
William Dwyer sings a sentimental song from "Yank! A World War II Love Story" in the latest Theater Loop Showcase video. In "Yank," now playing at the Pride Arts Center, Dwyer plays Mitch, t…
Remember those old commercials for Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport? "Forty-five minutes from the Lake Forest Oasis" was the tagline, trying to tempt residents of Chicago's…
"The Sting," the musical, has found its Henry Gondorff. Harry Connick Jr. will play the role made famous by Paul Newman. The crooner will star in the upcoming musical version of the Chicago-…
From the moment he first met her behind a potted plant in 1975, Alan Zweibel loved Gilda Radner. Despite the unwieldy and inaccurate subtitle, "A Sort of Love Story," the play "Bunny Bunny,"…
Jo Cattell is the latest early-career Chicago-based director to be named a recipient of the annual Michael Maggio Fellowship, Goodman Theatre announced Tuesday. As the 2017-18 fellow, Cattel…
On a chilly January morning, a team takes the turf field at the CIBC Fire Pitch facility in Chicago. The group of women, wearing a mix of cleats and sneakers, practice high knees under the w…
The Yard, a Chicago youth ensemble, will bring its production of Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli's "columbinus" to Steppenwolf's LookOut Series this spring, it was announced Tuesday. Directed…
Walking out the side door of the Empty Bottle onto Western Avenue at 12:30 in the morning, I looked past a group of smokers huddled around a sign decidedly not at the corner instructing them…
Friday "4:48 Psychosis": Saltbox Theatre Collective stages Sarah Kane's descent into the mind of a woman on the brink. Through March 11 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave.; 773-327-5252 and w…
This week's Showcase features a chummy tune from the 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical "Merrily We Roll Along." In the video, Neala Barron, Jim DeSelm and Matt Crowle, who star in the Porchlight…
Ian Merrill Peakes and Chaon Cross will star in Teller and Aaron Posner's music and magic-infused "Macbeth," Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced Monday. Joining Peakes as Macbeth and Cross…
Kelly Felthous, who plays Sally Bowles in the Paramount Theatre production of "Cabaret" did not get a lick of applause Saturday at the end of the show's famous title number, despite this bei…
The Joffrey Ballet's 2018-19 season will include the world premiere of Yuri Possokhov's "Anna Karenina," presented as part of a first-time collaboration between the Joffrey and the Australia…
If the plethora of activity in Chicago alone is any indication, the field is experiencing a veritable golden age of new American chamber operas. This season is bringing the local premieres, …
"All My Sons" âœâœâœâœ In an extraordinarily intense and emotional production of "All My Sons," now at Court Theatre, director Charles Newell approaches Arthur Miller's great…
Heavy snow couldn't keep dance fans away from the Dance Center of Columbia College for opening night of New York-based Doug Varone and Dancers. Braving the weather was wholly worth it, if on…
"You Got Older," a play by Clare Barron about losing someone you love to cancer, was slated to open at the Steppenwolf Theatre last Monday, on the evening that news came of the death of one …
When Claudia Cassidy, this newspaper's chief arts critic for the mid-section of the 20th century, and arguably the most powerful female employee of the paper's Colonel McCormick era, died in…
This season, it seems as though there is no challenge the Joffrey Ballet can't meet. Last fall, "Orphee et Eurydice" marked the company's first collaboration with the Lyric Opera. Stunning p…
Hershey Felder, the writer-actor-pianist whose biographies of composers have a broad following in Chicago, is returning to town. But he's not coming to his usual haunt, the Royal George Thea…
Wanna see "Love Never Dies," Andrew Lloyd Webber's throbbing sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera"? It opens Wednesday, you know. Right here at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago. On Vale…
