"The Heir Apparent," David Ives' "update" of a 17th century comedy by Jean-Francois Regnard (now at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater), is simply far too much about far too little. A cautionar…
Actress Claire Danes has been named this year's guest of honor at Steppenwolf Theatre's annual Women in the Arts fundraising luncheon. The event will be held at noon on Feb. 4, 2016 at a loc…
Griffin Theatre will present the Midwest premiere of John Van Druten's "London Wall," the rarely produced romantic drama about working women in 1930s London. It will be directed by Robin Wit…
Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago is presenting its fall concert, "One Root, Many Branches," with works that explore African influence on the culture of Jamaica, Brazil and the U.S. Performance…
"Bel Canto," Lyric Opera of Chicago's first main stage world premiere in more than a decade, was in rehearsal when terrorist attacks upended Paris last month, and it opened Monday night at t…
"There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them," wrote Vicki Baum, the woman whose book served as the inspiration for the movie and musical, "Grand Hotel." And that observati…
"Hamilton," the Broadway sensation, will open in Chicago in Sept. 2016. The post ‘Hamilton’ stage musical to open in Chicago next fall appeared first on Chicago Entertainment - …
When you've got a world premiere by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright you can be sure the casting will be A-list all the way. And so it turns out to be for the Steppenwolf Theatre's debut …
That global musical hit, "The Lion King," remains a beauty - a miraculous flight of imagination and a masterpiece of artistic craft on every level. The post ‘The Lion King’ rema…
By the age of 16, Brooklyn-born Carol Joan Klein - soon to adopt the professional name of Carole King - was already an accomplished classical pianist, had dated a guy named Neil Sedaka in hi…
"Fool Me Twice, Deja Vu," Second City's first new mainstage revue since a serious fire engulfed much of the company's Wells Street home this past September, is both confounding and disappoin…
After 12 years as artistic director of Theatre at the Center, William Pullinsi is stepping down. Linda Fortunato will succeed him. The post William Pullinsi to step down at Theater at the Ce…
Call it the latest chilling example of art imitating life, and life imitating art. And then imagine the frayed nerves of the artists who, barely a day after the terrorist attacks in Paris, a…
"A Christmas Story: The Musical" - now in an aptly high-spirited, warm-hearted, gently subversive production at Aurora's Paramount Theatre - is an intimate family story injected with great b…
A program note for "Sherlock" - the high-styled Canadian-bred show with a script by Greg Kramer that riffs on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - gets right to the point: "Late 19th cent…
"Not in a million years" did Abby Mueller ever think she'd star in "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical," the hit Broadway musical for which her sister, Jessie, won a Tony Award. Then she wa…
It is not very often that a character on stage is so real, so bereft, and so lonely that you just want to jump out of your seat and give him a consoling hug. But Eddie, the central character…
The winners of The Black Theater Alliance Awards (BTAA) for productions of the 2014-15 season were announced Monday, Nov. 16 at the Harold Washington Cultural Center. The Black Ensemble Thea…
Shakespeare 400 Chicago, the yearlong international festival that will run throughout 2016, and is designed to commemorate the four hundred years since Shakespeare's death in 1616, has annou…
Sure, it's a utopian fantasy. But who wouldn't cheer for a man who has avoided paying taxes for decades, who ditched his deadening job in favor of happiness, and who has somehow managed to c…
It is no accident that choreographer Gordon Peirce Schmidt has a fascination with gypsies. As he explains it, at least one of the reasons behind the creation of his latest full-length contem…
These days John Logan is best known for his screenplays for the James Bond movies "Skyfall" and "Spectre," the television series "Penny Dreadful," and his 2010 Tony Award-winning play, "Red,…
Court Theatre's stark but scorching new production of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" - the second in a trilogy of plays translated with clarity and poetry by Nicholas Rudall, directed with sinewy pr…
In what might signal the real start of Anna D. Shapiro's rein as the new artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre, the company has announced that Polly Hubbard will become the theater's new …
Is playwright Thomas Bradshaw just plying us with sex-race-and status porn, and getting himself declared an important transgressive artist in the bargain? The post Thomas Bradshaw’s &#…