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The pre-Civil War era melodrama by Dion Boucicault is receiving a smartly staged production by director Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
The plays will be presented at Shattered Globe's resident home at Theater Wit.
The peerless songs of George and Ira Gershwin are paired with the sinuous direction and brilliantly varied choreography by Christopher Wheeldon.
The lineup will also inaugurate the Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, dubbed "Destinos."
A family musical at heart, the show might just be the ideal tonic for any grownup in search of a brief, zany escape from news of the real world.
Consistently true to its title, "Luzia" is infused with dazzling effects of light, color, texture and water that evoke Mexico in the most poetic ways.
Early on in “Something Rotten!,” the irreverent musical farce that imagines the birth of the Broadway musical as it might have happened during the Elizabethan era, a character su…
Compile a list of some of the most famous directors of Broadway musicals " Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune, Graciela Daniele, Kathleen M…
Wandachristine who masterfully brings her characters to life under the fluid, incisive direction of Ron OJ Parson.
Raven Theatre will begin a national search for a new artistic director immediately.
As you enter Steep Theatre you instantly become part of designer Joe Schermoly's genteel living room set.
The season will include the Midwest debut of David Rabe's "Cosmologies" and Stacy Amma Osei-Kuffour's "Hang Man."
"Something Rotten!" is no serious meal of a musical. It's an elaborate dessert that might have been cooked up by a popular chain.
Has time been kind to "God of Isaac"? The answer requires a bit of a Talmudic approach.
As the show's title suggests " Luzia fuses the sound of "luz" ("light" in Spanish) and "lluvia" ("rain").
Taylor Mac's play receives one of those take-no-prisoners, anything goes Steppenwolf productions.
The one-man show features co-author Erik Jensen in a bravura turn as the dissipated but fervent Lester Bangs.
Douglas Carter Beane's poignant yet high-spirited play-with-music is now receiving a terrific Chicago premiere by Pride Films & Plays.
It is worth heading to the Drury Lane Theatre production of D.L. Coburn’s two-character play, “The Gin Game,” simply to watch the countless variations actor John Reeger can…
Francesca Johnson, the Italian war bride who has been married to an Iowa farmer for 18 years, could easily have locked the door when Robert Kincaid, an interesting stranger who just happens …
The superbly cast revival brings the family comedy "Ah, Wilderness!" to life with all the pathos, heart and sheer old-fashioned goofiness it demands.
Director hasn't found a fully cohesive style for the production that might balance its Old World operetta style with contemporary pacing.
While this touring edition of the 2015 Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater revival is not perfect, it looks beautiful in the Oriental Theatre.
Claire Kiechel's "Pilgrims" is now being staged in a beautifully realized world premiere at The Gift Theatre.
Director John Doyle’s acclaimed Broadway revival of “The Color Purple,” the musical based on Alice Walker’s novel about four decades in the life of an African-America…
