In Shakespeare's play, a poet on the sidelines gets torn to pieces by the mob. Tim Crouch's piece, now streaming from Chicago Shakespeare Theater, brings him back to debate artistic respons…
Hot on the heels of International Transgender Visibility Day March 31, the new documentary "Mama Gloria" by Connecticut filmmaker Luchina Fisher is getting its broadcast debut this week, air…
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company presents… Artist Descending A Staircase a radio play by Tom Stoppard Available for streaming April 5 " April 18, 2021 Artist Descending A StaircaseÅ
In its 50th year the center continues telling women's untold stories. From the outside, 2109 N. Humbolt looks like a typical Logan Square home, with a handsome r…
The COVID-19 recovery has been a rollercoaster, with both the promise of vaccines and dangers of new cases in the headlines in recent days. Chicago needs careful thinking for this summer.
What if Banquo had won out over Macbeth? Tim Crouch's play, newly filmed for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, ponders the question.
Aaron Sorkin is widely considered the king of film and TV dialogue. Actors line up for a chance to feast on his words and the opportunity to deliver a Sorkin-penned speech. And yet his monol…
Aaron Sorkin has revealed that he considered making his film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, into a musical! The American legal drama film was written and directed by Sorkin, and stars Ya…
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Victory Gardens has a new artistic director, part of a new group of Black artistic leaders taking positions in the city, including at Second City and Hubbard Street Dance Company.
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The seats are flexible in the Cambria Hotel space. Plus circus people say yes. The show is on track to reopening in June.
Chicago's Harris Theater is a home venue for more than 20 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations. Now, you don't have to go to Chicago to see these thrilling events. This rich collect…
Aaron Sorkin, the writer/director of the red-hot Oscar contender "The Trial of the Chicago 7," felt the film was "pretty relevant" during production in the winter of 2019. His acclaimed Netf…
Shelley takes over for founder Nathan Allen who st,epped down last fall after 20 years as artistic director.
Frank Langella plays Judge Julius Hoffman in the Netflix film "The Trial of the Chicago 7." The actor just earned another nomination from the Screen Actors Guild Awards as part of the cast o…
Even though Aaron Sorkin has a great love for politics, he admits that he didn't know who the Chicago 7 were at first. It all started when he met with Steven Spielberg at his house and th…
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO: SEASON 43 THE WORLD PREMIERE OF "IN ANY EVENT" Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's 43rd season resumes Thursday, March 25, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. with a virtual world pr…
First show at Chicago Shakes will be "As You Like It" with Beatles music. Drury Lane plans to reopen with "Forever Plaid."
Chicago Opera Theater to Stream Chicago Premiere of Daniel Catán's La hija de Rappaccini April 2021 Production at Field Museum Marks 10-Year Anniversary of Composer's Death As COVID-19 re…
Chicago artist Lanise Antoine Shelley takes the lead at the Chicago theater company operating out of the Chopin in Wicker Park.
Are vaccine passports for audience members the quickest way back for the performing arts in Chicago?
Denise Yvette Serna discusses how she and the Strawdog ensemble devised a theater/film hybrid that interprets the stories of Chicagoans living and moving through a frenetic and claustrophobi…
In the new opera "Taking Up Serpents," set in rural Alabama, a young woman wrestles with her Pentecostal upbringing.