CHICAGO OPERA THEATER UPS THE ANTE AND PUSHES THE LIMITS The bad news: Everest and Aleko, Chicago Opera Theater's engrossing double bill at Millennium Park's Harris Theatre, clos…
The Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago celebrated its 23rd Broadway anniversary last night, Thursday, November 14th. The production is now playing at Broadway's Ambassad…
The Chicago Parks Foundation today announced that the first phase of the new AIDS Garden Chicago will be complete this [...] The post AIDS GARDEN CHICAGO To Unveil 30-Foot Kei…
The name on everybody's lips is gonna be ... Chicago! The legendary revival of Kander and Ebb's iconic musical is celebrating 23 years of all that jazz on Broadway today! To celebrate, we're…
The Kander and Ebb musical opened November 14, 1996 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
The Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago celebrates its 23rd Broadway anniversary tomorrow, Thursday, November 14th. The production is now playing at Broadway's Ambassador…
The central characters feel like an afterthought in Barbara Gaines's contemporized version. Setting Romeo and Juliet in a contemporary urban setting inevitably d…
Chicago Shakes delivers a vision of their namesake's most well-known tragedy anchored in today's headlines.
"Chicago, for all of its demographic diversity, isn't immune to the racism and (not so blissful) ignorance that plagues American theatres more generally. Many artists see the theatrical expe…
"Mark Larson's new book Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater (Agate Midway), tells the stories of the town's theatre in the words of its makers, from Steppenwolf to Second City to Go…
PICKED, PECKED, AND PACKED Some solo shows can be valued simply for their superb simulations of someone else's story. Others succeed because we pay extra special attention when the chronicle…
HE'S BACK ON DUTY It's now become a holiday classic, Mary Zimmerman's gorgeous The Steadfast Tin Soldier at Lookingglass Theatre. It was glorious last year. It's lost no luster since. In onl…
Casey Donovan has enjoyed a bold and varied career since her meteoric rise to fame at the age of 16. She became the youngest ever winner of Australian Idol in 2004 and over the last thirteen…
A SHOW THAT CASTS A SPELL Whether it really works or it's just self-fulfilling wishful thinking, magic can misfire. Â Detailing a downhome tragedy set in Memphis during the Depression, Hoo…
The production, directed by Wardell Julius Clark, began performances October 31.
The world-renowned Voice of Chicago, Chicago Children's Choir's top-level mixed-voice performance ensemble, kicks off its concert [...] The post World-Renowned Choir VOICE OF CHICAGO Kick…
The musical will make its world premiere in 2020.
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The characters in Jake Heggie's 2000 opera acquire charisma through the unhappiness of their situations and the obsessions that drive them.
You don't have to be a moron to enjoy John Leguizamo's new one-man show. But it does help to keep an open mind about just how little you might know about Latin American history.
Shpiel Performing Identity produces this eight-day event as part of the Alliance for Jewish Theatre Conference. The attack on Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue…
The full Chicago cast has been announced for the limited holiday engagement of beloved Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza, for ten performances only, December 14-29, 2019, at…
The musical heads to Chicago's Lyric Opera House in December following London and Los Angeles engagements.
Part hangout, part celebration, part theater of the mind, live podcast recordings are a performance medium all their own. Sometime next month, Action Boyz podca…