On Tuesday, TimeLine Theatre Company set the cast for the Chicago premiere of "Cardboard Piano," Hansol Jung's drama set amidst violent conflict in northern Uganda Mechelle Moe will direct a…
The opera stars Burkhard Fritz, Christine Goerke, and Eric Owens.
Saturday "Frankenstein": In its latest world premiere, Manual Cinema augments the classic story of Frankenstein with Mary Shelley's biography to show the horrors of creation. Through Dec. 2 …
Vanessa Bamber has resigned as executive director of Chicago Dramatists. On Monday, she confirmed her departure in an email to the Tribune, stating that she offered the playwright developmen…
All he cares about is love...and starring on the West End stage! Broadway alum Todrick Hall will soon offer up his acclaimed razzle-dazzle turn as Billy Flynn to London audiences, making his…
Todrick Hall may be a YouTube sensation, but he is also no stranger to Broadway, having played Billy Flynn in Chicago and Lola in Kinky Boots. Now he reprises the role of the slick, manipula…
The recording star and YouTube favorite will return to the role of Billy Flynn.
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race, American Idol and YouTube sensation Todrick Hall will star as Billy Flynn in Chicago from 19 November 2018 until the end of the show's run at the Phoenix Theatre …
RuPaul Dragrace and YouTube star Todrick Hall will be replacing Duncan James as Billy Flynn in Chicago from 19 November at the Phoenix Theatre. The post Todrick Hall to star in Chicago appea…
Star of RuPaul's Drag Race, American Idol and YouTube sensation Todrick Hall will star as Billy Flynn in CHICAGO from 19 November 2018 until the end of the show's run at the Phoenix Theatre …
A SHOW TO END ANY THEATER DROUGHT It's a "big sky" story with a ton of heart, this other musical created by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, composer and lyricist of The Fantasticks…
On Thursday, Interrobang Theatre Project announced casting for its Chicago premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's drama "I Call My Brother." The show follows a day in the life of an Arab-Swedish…
"A Shayna Maidel" âœÂâœÂâœÂ✠Barbara Lebow's 1980s play "A Shayna Maidel" is a much richer work than I ever realized, especially in director Vanessa Stalling's exquisitely acte…
This Hello, Dolly! is classic Broadway showmanship in all the most important ways - in Betty Buckley we have a major Broadway performer that we all ought to see at least once, a top flight s…
Chicago magician and performer Neil Tobin's show "Necromancer: Near Death Experience" will have two final Halloween-season performances at Rosehill Cemetery, 5800 N. Ravenswood Ave. The hour…
“Fantastic Beasts” actor Eddie Redmayne is in early talks to star in Amblin Entertainment’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” sources tell Variety. Aaron Sorkin is …
WHEN REALISM IS NOT ENOUGH, SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN DENMARK It's strange that an enterprise as lavishly bounteous as Goodman Theatre should seem to shrink itself: Currently it's hosting two w…
Anna Netrebko will be on stage on December 2, 2018, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, USA. Malcolm Martineau will be the pianist for the show."Her dazzling star power has lit up the world's mos…
A COLOSSAL CIRCUS CARAVAN FROM COLOMBIA Three rings do not make a circus, any more than "two boards and a passion" make a play. Sometimes all you need is fifteen performers for for sixty pow…
The Chicago Humanities Festival's fall fest, bearing the title "Graphic!," began this weekend and continues with a calendar of cultural events through Nov. 11. Saturday's programs included t…
Imported from Belarus, this slow and steady local premiere at TUTA Theatre Chicago is equal parts function and rigor.
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment’s long-awaited political drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” looks to be closer than ever to getting off the ground, with a new…
LA DIVINA EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU After she prematurely destroyed her once "smoky," soaring voice, the "prima donna assoluta" — Greek soprano Maria Callas — decided that if you c…
Here's why you need to get out more and see international artists' perspectives on our riven America and its fraught democratic processes. You will encounter things that no U.S. company woul…