It will be shaking, rattling and rolling for just 12 more weeks. Now in its eighth year, "Million Dollar Quartet" - the rollicking musical hit about the night in 1956 when rock 'n' roll lege…
With its gloriously full sail world premiere production of "Treasure Island," Lookingglass Theatre has headed out to sea again, riding with abandon on the formidable current generated by its…
Mona Golabek, the concert pianist, writer and actress who enjoyed a hugely successful run of ... The post Golabek returns with a “Willesden Lane” for young audiences appeared fir…
Very few works of international theater make it to Chicago these days. But the Chopin Theatre, located at 1543 W. Division, continually makes a valiant effort to fill the gap with examples o…
In the human nervous system, a synapse is a structure that permits a neuron (or nerve cell) to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron. The term came to mind Thursday as Hubb…
The Theatre School at DePaul University and its dean, John Culbert, have announced the three winners of the 2015 Awards for Excellence in the Arts, to be presented Nov. 9 at the school's gal…
Anyone who still believes that classical ballet is a 19th century art form trapped in amber is advised to take a look at the Joffrey Ballet. As Exhibit A: The altogether stunning production …
Here's the crucial problem with "Unspeakable," the fantasia inspired by the life of Richard Pryor that has taken up temporary residence at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place: While …
Choreographer John Neumeier is a passionate man of deep intellect and wide-ranging creativity. You need do nothing more than listen to him talk about "Sylvia," the contemporary reinvention o…
David Rabe has long been acclaimed as the "playwright laureate" of the Vietnam War - a man who captured the profound psychological impact of that conflict in a trilogy that includes "Sticks …
"Ride the Cyclone" the eerie, tragicomic, dizzyingly talent-filled musical vaudeville - born in Canada, and now receiving its U.S. premiere on Chicago Shakespeare Theater's Upstairs stage - …
For her 2003 Jeff Award-winning set design for director David Cromer's Seanachai Theatre production of "Journey's End," Elizabeth Schuch created a World War I trench environment so real it m…
While it is not essential to know that playwright Scott McPherson died of the complications of AIDS at the age of just 33 before heading to the exceptionally winning revival of his play, "Ma…
Actor-writer-producer James Murray Jackson, Jr. discovered Richard Pryor for the first time when, as a kid, he caught the actor-comedian's hit movies from the early 1980s, "The Toy" and "Sti…
The list of Jeff Award winners honoring excellence in Chicago's Equity contract theaters during the 2014-2015 season are notable for a number of reasons. Check out the list of recipients nam…
There are two solidly dramatic moments in "The BlackWhite Love Play (The Story of Chaz & Roger Ebert)," Jackie Taylor's new show at the Black Ensemble Theater about the 24-year marriage…
At the heart of Willy Russell's heart-wrenching musical, "Blood Brothers" - a show that might well be described as a Greek tragedy of the British working class, and is receiving a superb pro…
The boxing ring is a very particular kind of stage, and when it is lifted onto the platform of a genuine theater it undergoes a fascinating transformation. Yes, the battle for physical domin…
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" is pure delicious fun - a superbly crafted musical that, in its sparkling inaugural national touring production, is being delivered with the greatest…
He's cooking up a new show. Alton Brown - the Food Network star and author who has a taste for both culinary chemistry and performance - has created a new show for the live stage. Titled "Al…
They are both widely known, and known primarily within their specific areas of activity. While most of them are based in the United States (including three in Chicago),they also hail from Gh…
The Goodman Theatre certainly has not neglected female playwrights in recent decades. It has produced the work of Rebecca Gilman, Regina Taylor, Tanya Saracho, Mary Zimmerman and many others…
Watch as John Steinbeck’s decidedly tragic 20th century Biblical story, “East of Eden,” unspools on ... The post REVIEW: ‘East of Eden’ a modern Biblical tale a…
Written by an Austrian (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), with an Italian libretto (by Lorenzo da Ponte) based on a French play (by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais), "The Marriage of Figaro" - now in a…
"La Revolution Francaise," a musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil (of "Les Miserables" and Miss Saigon" fame), will receive a concert reading featuring its new English langua…