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Saturday | "Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner, A Sort of Love Story": Alan Zweibel's tribute to Radner, his lifelong, loyal and funny friend, opens at the Mercury. Through April 1 at the Mercury The…
In May of last year, the venerable actor Stacy Keach suffered a mild heart attack while he was on stage opening night starring in "Pamplona" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. Keach made a gallan…
The actor John Mahoney, a longtime Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member and a performer known to millions for his work on the NBC sitcom "Frasier," died Sunday at the age of 77. Mahoney had b…
No American playwright has risen faster than Dominique Morisseau: She's now among the most produced names at regional theaters and she's on her way to Broadway with "Ain't Too Proud," a show…
The premise is familiar " a young man confronts his own past (including long-held secrets) in the aftermath of a parent's death. But like the celestial satellite that provides part of its ti…
Since 1955, when Lyric Opera mounted its first production of "I Puritani" to display Maria Callas in one of her most celebrated bel canto roles, Vincenzo Bellini's final opera has drifted in…
The ascendant Paramount Theatre in Aurora now plans to muscle in on the big Chicago business of new, pre-Broadway musicals. In 2019, the nonprofit theater west of Chicago will join with the …
"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…
In the final moments of "Ragtime," the beautifully scored 1998 musical from Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, there is a vision of how America could be: unified in diversity, learning from h…
After more than 33 years and an eye-popping 13,000 reviews, the long-standing Chicago theater critic Hedy Weiss has parted company with the Chicago Sun-Times. The paper told staffers that Fr…
Lifeline Theatre will adapt three stories for the stage in its 2018-19 season, the company announced Friday. First up is a world-premiere adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Franken…
These are the worst of times for awards shows. The ratings for the Grammy Awards last weekend were off a staggering 24 percent from the previous year. The Oscars, which are about to highligh…
Friday "Brodsky/Baryshnikov": Mikhail Baryshnikov stars in a one-man show, performed in Russian, based on the poems of Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky. Through Sunday at the Harris Theater, 20…
Not since "War Horse," now five years ago, has a Broadway production of a contemporary drama gone out on the road and played a big Chicago venue. People respond more readily to musicals; str…
Work by African-American artists has figured prominently in three bold, strong shows, all of them at long-established but smaller Chicago theater companies, none of them in any way predictab…
I met an out-of-town friend for a drink after the Porchlight Music Theatre production of "Merrily We Roll Along" on Tuesday night. "Where would you like to go?" he asked, meeting me in the l…
Where have you gone, Princess Celestia? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. And we need the Elements of Harmony now more than ever. If you got those references, then you've probably spe…
Award-winning actress Sarah Paulson was the honoree at the ninth annual Steppenwolf Women in the Arts luncheon Jan. 22 at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel. More than 300 supporters from Chicago's…
Watching John Mulaney do stand-up is like watching a pitch meeting for a multicamera, multicharacter sketch show, where an overworked but energetic and eager young writer is running through …
Will Davis, the artistic director of the American Theater Company, does not shy away from a challenge. Take, for example, what he attempts with the Chicago premiere of Basil Kreimendahl's "W…
In the summer of 1984, President Ronald Reagan made a little joke. "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever," he said,…
In the new Brett Neveu play "Traitor," a small-town Illinois teacher discovers soil near the school is contaminated with lead and it's affecting the kids. Someone is profiting off this unwel…
Broadway legend Patti LuPone will be the next diva to perform at Steppenwolf Theatre as part of the LookOut Series, the company announced Tuesday. LuPone, a two-time Tony winner, will perfor…
The work of famed Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is on tap this weekend at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, in a piece of avant-garde theater devised by director Alvin Hermanis. It's tit…
During the Great Feminist Backlash of the 1980s (not to be confused with the feminist backlash in every other decade), a Newsweek cover story proclaimed that a single white woman over 40 wit…
