A big citywide celebration is planned in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. The post Major citywide plans to celebrate a Shakespeare anniversary appeared first on Chicago…
Coming to the Goodman Theatre: "War Paint," a new musical about cosmetic titan Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, with Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole starring. The post Coming to Go…
The Goodman Theatre production of "Wonderful Town" has been rescheduled for Fall 2016. The post Goodman Theatre postpones ‘Wonderful Town’ until Fall 2016 appeared first on Chica…
By the time Robert Joffrey's production of "The Nutcracker" was ready for its world premiere in December, 1987, there was as much (if not more) drama going on behind the scenes as there was …
The Goodman Theatre's Latino Theatre Celebration and its two related productions are taking shape. The post Goodman Theatre’s Latino Theatre Festival revving up appeared first on Chica…
Broadway's Susan Stroman ("The Producers," Young Frankenstein") is directing and choreographing the Franz Lehar operetta "The Merry Widow" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago - a remount of the pr…
Okay; so take that and that and that Tracy Letts! You think you and Steppenwolf are going to have the last word on dysfunctional American family drama? Not so fast. Chicago playwright Brett …
Dr. Harlan W. Haimes was the audience member every actor dreamed of having at a show. He didn't just love the theater; he understood what was involved in the art of performing and he admired…
Six major Chicago cultural institutions have been named the recipients of 2015 "IncentOvate" grants - competitive awards totaling $400,000 that are designed to underwrite the creation of ne…
No doubt about it: Drury Lane Theatre's lavish production of "White Christmas," the classic Irving Berlin musical that is equal parts comedy, pathos, show business homage, patriotic hymn, ta…
"Four Women: Josephine, Eartha, Nina, and Tina," the special musical production created for the 2015 Chicago Humanities Festival, was a one-night-only event, presented Nov. 2 at the Francis …
There might be no more accurate clock in existence than the one powered by popular ... The post Hershey Felder portrays Irving Berlin, the voice of America appeared first on Chicago Entertai…
Sick, sick, sick. And a musical drama that just might be the most intimate and chillingly prophetic anatomy of 20th century manifestations of human cruelty, suffering and experimentation. Al…
As a professor of engineering tells us in "Spill," Leigh Fondakowski's altogether riveting oral history play about the monumental BP oil spill of 2010, there are two types of disaster. One …
Memory is an essential element of life - crucial to thought, and feeling, to learning and progress, to identity. But it also comes into play with particular power and meaning after someone w…
Beware: You might just fall in love with that elegant, somewhat self-satisfied white porcelain rabbit with the tall tapering ears, enigmatic face and fashion forward style who is catapulted …
The Joffrey Ballet and the Joffrey Academy of Dance (the official school of the Joffrey ... The post Joffrey Ballet names three winners of its choreographic competition appeared first on Chi…
"Elf" will never be mistaken for one of the great entries in the American musical canon. But this holiday season show - based on the 2003 movie of the same name, and first produced on Broadw…
This week, as part of a citywide project, pianist, actress and storyteller Mona Golabek is presenting a special young adult version of her acclaimed one-woman show, "The Pianist of Willesde…
Baby boomers and their parents will surely remember her - Hazel, the live-in maid who worked for a middle class family. She first arrived in 1943 in the form of a single-panel cartoon series…
The most direct way to describe Philip Dawkins' beguiling new play, "Charm," now receiving its world premiere in a Northlight Theatre production staged in the Steppenwolf Garage Theatre is t…
Chicago's Eclipse Theatre Company, the Midwest's only theater company to focus on a single playwright each season, will feature the works of American playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis for its …
George Orwell's classic novel, "1984," now in a stage adaptation designed for the Steppenwolf Young Adults program, remains a formidable catalyst for discussion. The post Steppenwolf for You…
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has announced that "Sense and Sensibility," the award-winning new musical commissioned by the company from Tony Award-nominated composer/lyricist/adapte…
There is much that should not be revealed about the plot essentials in Jordan Harrison's play, "Marjorie Prime," which debuted at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles last year and is about t…