1,178 stories by "Morgan Greene"
Strawdog Theatre Company has signed a three-year lease at 1802 W. Berenice Ave., the former home of the recently shuttered Oracle Productions and Signal Ensemble Theater. Strawdog spent the …
The musical version of the DreamWorks' animated film "Madagascar," which opened at the Marriott Theatre in February, will play Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier this summer. Although …
An additional concert performance featuring Broadway star Audra McDonald has been added in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre, the company announced Tuesday. The added performance, also featur…
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance announced its 14th season of Harris Theater Presents performances Tuesday, including Monteverdi's last surviving operas, the Mark Morris Dance Gr…
The Second City e.t.c. has news for you. Tremendous news. Amazing news. Fake news. In this video, Russian hackers are getting their news across boy-band style, breaking down alternati…
Jim Gaffigan has added a third show at the Chicago Theatre in October, it was announced Monday. The Grammy-nominated comedian and New York Times best-selling author, who recently wrapped the…
Dan Harmon and Scott Adsit will headline the 20th annual Chicago Improv Festival, coming up March 27 to April 2. Harmon, creator of the TV show "Community," will perform a live vers…
Casting is complete for the world premiere of Charles Smith's "Objects in the Mirror," the Goodman Theatre announced Wednesday. "Objects" is inspired by Smith's real-life friendship with …
Remy Bumppo announced a three-play slate for its 2017-18 season Wednesday. Opening the season is Thornton Wilder's end-of-many-worlds epic "The Skin Of Our Teeth" (Oct. 4-Nov. 12), direct…
Have a little priest! This week's Showcase features a song from Paramount Theatre's "Sweeney Todd." Bri Sudia, as Mrs. Lovett, and Paul-Jordan Jansen, as Sweeney, serve up a piping-hot rendi…
Mercury Theater Chicago has announced the cast of "Mary Poppins," which will be lead by Nicole Armold as the perfect nanny with Matthew Crowle as Bert. The production will also feature…
Tickets for Lyric Opera's production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" go on sale Thursday, the company announced Tuesday. It's a significantly early release of tickets, coming more than a year…
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will perform at Steppenwolf Theatre as part of the LookOut Series, the company announced Tuesday. Presented by LookOut and Mark Cortale, the…
Tympanic Theatre announced Tuesday that after producing 10 seasons in Chicago, it will close following its current production of "Waiting for Godot." The company, founded in 2007 by alumni o…
Claude Binder will be American Blues Theater's new managing director, the Equity theater company announced Monday. Binder, who will be the first managing director for the theater since 20…
Four weeks have been added to the Chicago return of "Beautiful - The Carole King Musical," it was announced Monday. The jukebox musical charting the rise of King's career will now play the C…
Broadway veteran Destan Owens will lead the cast of Paramount Theatre's "Jesus Christ Superstar," the Aurora company announced Monday. Along with Owens as Jesus of Nazareth, the cast of Andr…
Raven Theatre Company announced its 2017-18 season Friday. First up in the fall is "Choir Boy" (Sept. 27-Nov. 12), by recent "Moonlight" Academy Award-winner Tarell Alvin McCraney. A gay tee…
Drury Lane Theatre has announced the cast of the Chicago-area return of "Chicago." Broadway veterans Kelly Felthous and Alena Watters will star as Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, respectiv…
TimeLine Theatre Company announced its 2017-18 season Thursday, including the Chicago premiere of the play that inspired Peter Morgan's hit Netflix series "The Crown." Associate artistic dir…
Fear, sex and self-loathing in Manhattan are all the rage in "The Scene," Theresa Rebeck's study in collapsed coastal morality that's sad, funny and, as the playwright-novelist-television wr…
The Chicago Neo-Futurists, along with The New York Neo-Futurists and The San Francisco Neo-Futurists, announced Tuesday their late-night show's new name: "The Infinite Wrench." After a mo…
Porchlight Music Theatre announced its 2017-18 season Tuesday, the first in its new home at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. Opening the mainstage season is "Billy Elliot," the boxing-to-b…
Time to break out those Hamiltons. The next block of "Hamilton" tickets goes on sale next week. Sixteen more weeks of performances at the PrivateBank Theatre, through Jan. 7, 2018, will go o…
It was no surprise Wednesday that the PrivateBank Theatre had yet another sold-out crowd for "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop homage to our nation's Founding Fathers. What was differ…
