Stages, Sights & Sounds, the performance festival for the humanities-devotees-in-short-pants set, has announced its lineup for 2015. This spring's fest, put on May 7-20 at the Victory Garden…
Stages, Sights & Sounds, the performance festival for the humanities-devotees-in-short-pants set, has announced its lineup for 2015. This spring's fest, put on May 7-20 at the Victory Garden…
Valentine's Day, St. Valentine's Day, the Feast of St. Valentine "whether you embrace it or resist it, it is here this weekend. If you're in need of some entertainment for the occasion, read…
Valentine's Day, St. Valentine's Day, the Feast of St. Valentine "whether you embrace it or resist it, it is here this weekend. If you're in need of some entertainment for the occasion, read…
Clockwise Theatre Company founder and artistic director Madelyn Sergel is stepping down from her post, the Waukegan theater announced Tuesday. She will be replaced by Bob Sanders, the direct…
"Lookingglass Alice" has added another week of performances in the Water Tower Water Works. Adapted and directed by David Catlin from the Lewis Carroll story, the long-time hit for Lookinggl…
"The Selfish Giant," part of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, opens Friday and runs through Feb. 22 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St. Several of th…
"The Table," part of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, is open in previews and runs through Jan. 25 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre on Navy Pier. The puppet work by Blind Sum…
It been running for 26 years but still takes place in a theater so authentic it can't afford vowels. Some of the curated events are by fringe theater veterans such as Greg Allen and Beau O'R…
It been running for 26 years but still takes place in a theater so authentic it can't afford vowels. Some of the curated events are by fringe theater veterans such as Greg Allen and Beau O'R…
The Paramount Theater in Aurora recently released photos from its new production of "Tommy," the 1993 musical based on the rock opera by The Who " the one about the deaf, dumb and blind kid …
"Airline Highway," the current play at Steppenwolf by Lisa D'Amour ("Detroit") and directed by Joe Mantello ("Wicked"), has added a few more performances in February. The play, about the wor…
This is our annual "Save the Seats" for New Year's Eve, which the Chicago Tribune offers up every year on the last Friday in December before the big night of the ball drop, the citywide cham…
There are some dark moments, to be sure, in Conor McPherson's "The Night Alive" at the Steppenwolf Theatre. On Thursday night, Halsted Street delivered an extra one.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 may seem like an odd thing to celebrate, but don't worry, Redmoon is sure to do it oddly. Saturday night is the big night for the Great Chicago Fire Festival "…
Fans of falsehood, devotees of deceit, boosters of bull, er, baloney, this is your event. The "25th Annual Chicago's Biggest Liar Contest" is 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ravenswood United Church …
It's not that the dead have stopped talking — it's that the show has reached its 10-year mark and its creator/solo performer/necromancer is ready to move on.
Back for a second year, Chicago Theatre Week 2014 kicks off Tuesday and continues through Feb. 16 — presented by the League of Chicago Theatres in partnership with Choose Chicago. Abou…
Welcome to the Tribune's annual "Save the Seats" edition for New Year’s Eve. This is the feature we run on the last December Friday before the big-night-ball-drop-calendar-flip-hoo-ha.…
Garrison Keillor spoke from the kitchen of his home in New York — he has another residence in St. Paul, Minn. — and said that he could see from his window the high buildings of t…
 An upcoming work by Thodos Dance Chicago will be a collaboration between a leading artist of the dance world and a leading artist of the architecture world. Troupe founder and artistic d…
The Thursday-night performance of the  “The Color Purple,” recently opened at the Mercury Theater, has been cancelled. The official word from theater owner L. Walter Stearns i…
(BY DOUG GEORGE) "Killer Joe" will be unleashed on Broadway in 2014, its producers announced Thursday, in a production that will reunite Tracy Letts and director Pam MacKinnon. &n…
Giving Chicago's credentials as a sports town and a theater town, this new rock musical may already be a point ahead. "The Lockout: A Musical" will have its world premiere Aug. 23 (previews …
Christopher Mannelli, the interim managing director at Victory Gardens Theater Company, has been made permanent in the post, artistic director Chay Yew and board president Steve Miller an…