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Acclaimed actor, veteran Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member and two-time Oscar nominee John Malkovich will serve as the narrator of Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” in …
The show is deeply rooted in Regan's family home located on a lake outside of Mankato, Minnesota.
Pegasus Theatre’s Young Playwrights Festival has been in operation for 31 years, along the way capturing the shifting zeitgeist of adolescent life. Under the program, professional thea…
Artistic director Carlos Kalmar brings rarely heard treasures as well as familiar classics to Millennium Park starting in June.
WEISS: The gently campy musical burlesque seems custom-made for Black Button Productions and its affinity for the surreal.
Fink arrives in Chicago after serving as managing director of Theatre Bay Area.
Closing out the imaginative company's season is "Nevermore " The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe."
Albert, who in November announced he would be leaving his position at Court as of Fall 2018, had been quietly fighting cancer for several years.
He was a producer on TV series including "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Wayne Brady Show."
From movies to music to television and beyond, 2017 saw the passing of some of our most beloved artists from across the entertainment spectrum.
Her career started when she was a toddler, stretched nearly a century and included success in theater, radio, nightclubs, movies and TV.
Both the level of choreography and the dancing in the many theaters now producing musicals in this city witnessed exponential growth.Â
A slew of incisive and imaginative productions ignited Chicago's theater scene in 2017.
There are several numbers delivered with great feeling and vocal aplomb, worthy tributes to the man and his music.
Nataki Garrett's cast is remarkable, both as an airtight ensemble and in the actors' ability to breathe life into their respective characters.
"Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider," promises the comedian's present-day take on everything from parenting to feminism and everything in between.
The former PBS host had been scheduled to speak at the Chicago Theatre on Jan. 20.
FACE TO FAITH: "As you grow older, the scriptures and your relationship with God . . . matures," stage actress Felicia P. Fields says.
WEISS: Dion Johnstone makes a remarkable transition from young and self-confident to old and bitter in handsome Chicago Shakespeare Theater staging.
Tickets for the stage show at the Cadillac Palace will go on sale Dec. 13.
WEISS: While touring production of the Oz musical stays true to the original staging, the meaning of its story seems to have evolved in emphasis.
There is far more to this show than biography.There is the vibrant sense of a musical era in the making.
The show's playful yet pungent parody seems more timely than ever.
Puccini's melodies are beyond rapturous, with several haunting themes and variations exquisitely laced throughout the opera's three acts.
Chicago actor "totally blown away" at being handpicked to play a government agent for director Guillermo del Toro.
