If you like Shakespeare, well, 2016 is your year. From January 27 on, you'll be able to attend a Bard-related event nearly every day if you so desire, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare's Shake…
"People always assume it came from the play," says Beau O'Reilly via e-mail. But no. The Rhinoceros Theater Festival wasn't named for Rhinoceros, Eugène Ionesco's classic 1959 comedy abo…
The newest book from a writer the Reader thinks of as one of our own is actually a play. Chicago Dramaworks has published My Kind of Town, John Conroy's drama inspired by the police torture …
Congratulations and praise is rolling in for Chris Jones, the Tribune drama critic who just won the George Jean Nathan Award for drama criticism. The announcement of Jones's award hails his …
This isn't working for Donald Trump, and I'm concerned about him. No matter what he does he can't stop running for president. A man of his talents would be confined, hamstrung, …
What happens when drunk video gamers try to direct a stage version of Hamlet? You'll have about a minute to find out. The Neo-Futurists have chosen gaming as the theme of both their "Neoc…
At times the tale of Romeo and Juliet feels as dead as the star-crossed lovers themselves. We already have West Side Story, Leonardo DiCaprio as a knight in shining armor, and a countless nu…
The "architectural performance"Â Superpowers of Ten was performed in front of five sold-out audiences last weekend, packing the Tank, the newly renovated exhibition space on the first floo…
John Steinbeck intended East of Eden to be the book of his life. He planned to set down the story of his own personal origins for his two sons, and he meant that both literally and cosmicall…
On the third day of rehearsal for the Goodman Theatre's new production of Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced, the director Kimberly Senior took her cast and stage managing crew on a field trip to the A…
The Chicago theater community will come together Saturday for the first Chicago Theater Memorial Bike Ride to commemorate actors, playwrights, critics, and other colleagues who have recently…
Click the "all shows" link at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe site and you get 3,556 results. By comparison I count 46 for the Chicago Fringe Festival, excluding special features like the…
If you're going to produce a theatrical production based on interviews with Chicagoans talking about food, Albany Park is as good a place to start as any. Not only is it one of the most dive…
Russ Tutterow was a playwright's "greatest advocate and friend," Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls said Monday night, welcoming about 300 members of Chicago's theater community …
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Should a play that's just weeks away from opening in New York be off-limits to Chicago critics?
Sun-Times theater critic Hedy Weiss should be glad she was banned from that press conference.
In Detroit, Lisa D'Amour pulls back where she should push.
Surely no words ever written by any theater critic stirred more local buzz than Michael Billington's 2004 observation in London's Guardian that "Chicago . . . [is] the current theatre capita…