Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Belushi, Keegan-Michael Key, and other artists with strong ties to the Windy City also joined the fun to help raise money for the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund.
A bevy of stars have come together (from the comfort of home, of course) to perform a rollicking rendition of "Sweet Home Chicago." The music video is raising money for the Arts for Illin…
An all-star line-up of Chicago natives and stars who got their start in the Windy City have come together for a new music video, performing the Blues anthem a?oeSweet Home Chicago.a??Â
The video, featuring Chicago natives and stars who got their starts in the Windy City, benefits the Arts for Illinois Relief Fund.
A GoFundMe by artists and for artists provides COVID relief. At the start of COVID-19 lockdowns, thousands of Chicago theater artists lost immediate income. In t…
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS CHICAGO'S RAVEN THEATRE REVAMP ITS 2020-21 SEASON This fall's planned revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's drama Inherit the Wind direct…
"Now even the idea of intimacy is different. The idea that I'm going to be taking off my clothes in front of people, even six feet apart, seems close."
Why have Chicago's for-profit institutions been so hit? The main reason is their total revenue dependence. A big non-profit potentially can rely on its board members to bankroll it through t…
The Chicago-area Zanies comedy clubs have announced they will reopen in July, with Vince Carone in Chicago and Pat McGann in Rosemont.
Chicago's Mercury Theater and iO are closing. Blue Man Group is in trouble. It's the for-profit theaters that are in the most danger at the moment.
Broadway.com contributor Tug Rice has been thinking up what our favorite Broadway characters are doing while theaters are closed. So, how are Chicago's merry murderesses spending their time …
JUST AS MAGICAL REMOTELY Is stuff magical only because it can't be explained? Perhaps it's more than just the absence of logic, probability, or reason. There's a presence too: Magic evokes a…
"Visionaries + Voices" presents sincere and humble work from an Ohio-based nonprofit that supports artists with disabilities. It's storming heavily outside as I …
How Cliff Raven changed the city's ink culture forever "What about Stonewall?" the interviewer asks.…
When things shut down in March, Mercury Theater proprietor L. Walter Stearns " one of the few commercial theater producers in the city to own the real estate they operate on " thought he'd b…
Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced that its previously scheduled 2020-2021 season is getting a reset in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. It will still include Tarell Alvin McCraney…
Why did the Mercury Theatre -- one of Chicago's great, intimate stages -- close?
What happens when quarantine comes to the Cook County Jail? Watch as stars of Broadway's Chicago, Amra-Faye Wright, Arian Keddell, Mary Claire King, Pilar Millhollen, Rachel Schur and Tonya …
It's been over 100 days without Broadway since theaters shut down due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and now we know how some of Chicago's merry murderesses at Cook County Jail are doing.…
The improv company, which was co-founded in 1981 by Charna Halpern and the late Del Close and numbers Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Adam McKay among its alumni, has been closed to the public si…
It's a difficult decision to make: as Joffrey CEO Greg Cameron said, "The loss of The Nutcracker alone " more than half of the Joffrey's annual earned revenue " compounds a financial crisis …
The longtime iO Theater Chicago is shutting down and the building it moved to in 2014 will be sold. Photos from the past decade.
Chicago's long-lived iO Theater will shut down and the theater building at 1501 N. Kingsbury St. will be put up for sale.
The company had been operating since 2011.