"The Beatrix Potter Drive-In Theatre Experience" at Chicago Children's Theatre is a blissful escape in a parking lot with some favorite children's stories.
Founder Charna Halpern is selling her theater, a longtime Chicago home for comedy and improv. The news comes soon after Second City's sale announcement.
Halloween has gone shut-in-and-be-scared for 2020 ... these virtual shows from Chicago theater, from H.G. Wells to Edgar Allen Poe, are designed to play on your fears in the best kind of way.
With Second City up for sale, Chicago could lose a treasured institution. The theater can still be saved, but America's sense of humor " and its basic sense of civility " needs to heal itsel…
Following an exit by co-owner Andrew Alexander over the summer, the theater is now fully on the market. It's been shut down since March by the pandemic and continues to have expenses.
A new City of Chicago program offers grants to Chicago's struggling performing-arts venues, including for-profit operations with bands and DJs.
A planned spring world premiere of Cathy Marston's "Of Mice and Men" joins the already canceled "Nutcracker." But an emergency fund to support the company has already raised millions.
You're a prestigious arts center in a pandemic. Here's what not to do: Have a nightclub on your roof called Heist X. This is one of the strangest stories of the COVID arts shutdown.
Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance and Sacha Baron Cohen lead a starry cast in a courtroom-set story of '60s activism
"There is no other way forward": reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision Chicago theater is in the midst of a historic transition, with …
In the wake of the letter from We See You White American Theater, Chicago-based actors, designers and other artists tell the Tribune what they've seen in their careers, and what changes they…
For Jackie Taylor, the founder of the Black Ensemble Theater and a woman who has seen calls for diversity come and go over the years, this moment seems different.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 is now open in select theaters, before coming to Netflix on October 16.
The film, inspired by true events, features Tony winners Mark Rylance, Eddie Redmayne, and Frank Langella.
The pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests seems to have brought arts organizations to a moment of reckoning.
CHICAGO SHAKES UP ITS SEASON Chicago Shakes' 35th Anniversary Season offers an amazing array of options, both in‑person performances and virtual streaming. Look for plays written a…
The circus being the circus, these performers always find a way to go on with the show. Chicago's Midnight Circus tours city parks this fall.
"Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!" by the Goodman Theatre is Cheryl L. West's play about the civil rights activist, starring E. Faye Butler in a tour of Chicago parks.
The long-running musical welcomed the dessert giant to the theatre district September 15.
Cast members from a?oeChicago,a?? Broadwaya??s longest-running American musical, welcomed their new neighbor and Broadwaya??s newest bright light by turning on the shopa??s Hot Light.
In a pandemic-era first, "Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!" brings a story about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer out to the neighborhoods. Live, with music.
WRITERS READY AND RARIN' TO GO Chicago's amazing company, Writers Theatre, has announced its 2020/21 Season with a new adaptive producing model, one committed to remaining flexible and respo…
As Samuel Beckett said, we must go on, and as Tony Kushner said, the world spins forward. These two playwrights weren't talking about the current moment, but they might have been. In this mo…
When audiences return, will COVID redesigns make Chicago's theaters look different? What is Steppenwolf doing with its new theater-in-the-round? Theaters big and small have some answers.