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The Tony-winning director visits the critics and breaks down his artistic process on 'The Waverly Gallery' and 'The Band's Visit,' and explains his love affair with the Windy City.
When he became CEO of the city's natural history museum in 2012, it was in enough financial trouble that its debt was on the verge of being downgraded. Then there was the "cringeworthy" Nati…
A letter from eight of the 13 departing board members noted that two leading candidates for CEO of the theater withdrew after meeting with the president of Roosevelt University (which owns t…
"Alright, come on," comedian Hannah Gadsby said to the uproarious applause that greeted her when she walked abruptly out onto the stage of the Chicago Theatre Sunday night, eschewing an open…
Sunday "Ada and the Engine": During the start of the Industrial Revolution, Ada sees the unlimited potential in Charles Babbage's invention of the first mechanical computer. This play with m…
A LITERAL STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS Only 65 minutes long, British playwright Jez Butterworth's spell-casting The River manages, as few plays have, to simulate a dream on stage. Heraclitu…
THESE CASCADING CRISES ARE NOT SOON FORGOTTEN Sometimes, given the right writing, a seemingly small struggle can defy and define supposedly close kinfolk " and even stamp a society: The futu…
FRIDAY "If I Forget": Before Sept. 11, three siblings clash when reunited to celebrate their father's 75th birthday. Will they negotiate how much of their past, family secrets, and long-held…
Producers have announced that Australian superstar Jason Donovan will be playing the role of the cunning and charismatic lawyer Billy Flynn in Chicago this December in Melbourne. He joins Na…
And a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives provides the visual aids.
When the annual Pride Parade steps off from the intersection of Broadway and Mon…
It is sleek, sharp, and cool.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's Summer Series performed at the Harris Theater June 6 through 9 was a sleek and futuristic vision: t…
Australian producers John Frost and Suzanne Jones have announced that Australian superstar Jason Donovan will be joining the cast of the multi-award winning, record breaking musical Chicago …
"As part of the Courtroom Artist Residency, artists may sit among the friends and family members of defendants waiting to be tried at Cook County's Criminal Court and witness the brisk flow …
If Chicago Tap Theatre (CTT) is known for one thing outside the dance world, it's probably their Pride-themed extravaganzas. Tap dancing, beloved LGBT arts organizations like the Chicago Gay…
Thirteen out of 34 members of the board of directors, including chairman John Svoboda, resigned this week following a disagreement with Roosevelt University, which owns the building, over th…
The actor concluded her run in the long-running hit revival June 3.
FRIDAY "Sweet Texas Reckoning": Kate comes home to Texas with her African American wife. Artemisia Theatre at the Den Theatre, 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave.; www. artemisiatheatre.org SATURDAY "Get…
After more than 20 years in the musical, Donna Marie Asbury played her final Broadway performance this week.
"Along with other postmodern architects of international repute, among them the late Philip Johnson and Michael Graves, Tigerman in the 1970s and 1980s broke the mold of modernist, steel-and…
"We have no children and no relatives we trust with money, so at a certain age we were thinking about what [our] legacy is and our bequest to the future."
Walk into "Ms. Blakk for President," the new Steppenwolf Theatre show from Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau about the remarkable political odyssey of Terence Smith, one of the founders …
Museum management said in a statement that "this auction allows us to deaccession a number of works in areas where we have significant breadth and depth and the proceeds will return to the A…
Working opposite ends of the volume spectrum, two musicals, the new "Six" and a reinterpreted "Next to Normal," find their levels.
There are a number of checklist items that allow a comedian to claim Chicago roots. A comic could be born here (luck), live here currently (choice), or develop their comedic voice in the clu…
