CHICAGO MAGIC LOUNGE KICKS OFF ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE SERIES
Chicago Magic Lounge, Chicago's home for close-up magic, kicks off its new Artist-In-Residence series with Mark Toland's Mind Reader. [...] The post CHICAGO MAGIC LOUNGE KICKS OF…
Chicago Magic Lounge, Chicago's home for close-up magic, kicks off its new Artist-In-Residence series with Mark Toland's Mind Reader. [...] The post CHICAGO MAGIC LOUNGE KICKS OF…
Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce the First National Tour of Mean Girls"the record-breaking new musical [...] The post BROADWAY IN CHICAGO ANNOUNCES 'MEAN GIRLS' NATIONAL TOUR…
Max von Essen and Nick Adams, from the First National Tour of FALSETTOS. Photo by [...] The post Broadway In Chicago Announces "FALSETTOS" Tix on Sale March 1 appeared first on Showbiz Chica…
In her play "The Madres," seen last year at Chicago's Teatro Vista, the fine writer Stephanie Alison Walker wrote about the so-called Dirty War, the U.S.-backed Argentine purge that last fro…
IF IT'S THURSDAY, IT MUST BE LIFELINE Deemed a "metaphysical thriller," The Man Who Was Thursday is religious writer G.K. Chesterton's celebrated satire from 1908. Intentionally confou…
American Girl Live-Campers at Olde Adventure Trail. Photo Credit: Amy Boyle Broadway In Chicago and Mills Entertainment are [...] The post Broadway In Chicago Announces "AMERICAN GI…
TOO MANY ACT(S) Even apocalypses, it seems, can be goofy, disruptive, and "meta" " if you go by Lookingglass Theatre Company's irritating and overlong world premiere. With two intermissions …
"I started here in Chicago at Zanies 30 years ago," said stand-up comedian and St. Louis native Kathleen Madigan proudly from the Chicago Theatre stage Saturday night in jeans and a black sh…
Director Stephen Daldry's heart-stopping deconstruction of the post-war J.B. Priestley thriller "An Inspector Calls" was, for my money, one of the best English-language productions of the 19…
Mercury Theater announced the cast and creative team of "Little Shop of Horrors," running on the main stage from March 1 through April 28. Under the direction of Walter Stearns, musical dire…
This pristine British import is both an aesthetic curiosity and a clue to an expanded theatrical language beyond kitchen sink realism.
Art on theMart, the fledgling video projection project on the south facade of the Merchandise Mart, is celebrating Chicago theater with the second round of video art it will display, the org…
Somewhere in the mid-1960s, Lee Radziwill (nee Bouvier), the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy and a socialite officially known as Princess Lee Radziwill following her 1959 marriage to Pr…
SHE STRIKES! SHE SCORES! WELL, BOWL ME OVER It's only women who perform, design, direct, write, and otherwise shape this Goodman Theatre world premiere. Rebecca Gilman's Twilight Bowl …
Chicago's iconic culinary treasure, Russian Tea Time, perfectly nestled in the heart of Chicago's Downtown at [...] The post CHICAGO LANDMARK RUSSIAN TEA TIME CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY …
Broadway In Chicago and Fifth Estate Entertainment are delighted to announce that tickets for ROCK OF AGES will go on [...] The post Broadway In Chicago Announces “ROCK …
Photo Credit: Salman Chaudry I Heart Halal™, the premier halal lifestyle festival in America, announces the second I Heart Halal event, [...] The post 2nd I HEART HA…
Question: Which Broadway show has the highest audience demand in Chicago right now? "Hamilton" or "Dear Evan Hansen"? Answer: "Dear Evan Hansen," the moody musical about a loving single moth…
Nothing that sparkles can last in Verdi's tragedy of goodness against the world.
A SMALL STORY SOARS IN THIS NEW OPERA Right now the Studebaker Theater houses a wonder. A chamber opera with a heart of gold, The Scarlet Ibis, with a supple score by Stefan Weisman and l…
The new play by Rebecca Gilman opened February 8 at the Goodman Theatre.
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," the new Broadway musical about the life and work of Michael Jackson, has canceled its Chicago tryout, slated for fall. A New York spokesman for the show, wh…
Ben Levi Ross as ‘Evan Hansen’ and the Company of the First North American Tour [...] The post Broadway In Chicago Announces “DEAR EVAN HANSEN” RETURN ENGAGEMENT appe…
Directed by Marti Lyons, this preciselessly abridged tale of ambition and fear embodies the radically modern possibilities of theater.