Seth Rudetsky Brings Deconstructing Broadway to Chicago October 28
The Playbill columnist is playing a benefit for the Chicago Theatre Workshop.
The Playbill columnist is playing a benefit for the Chicago Theatre Workshop.
SINGING, SURVIVING, AND SPIRIT It's a fine fit: As much as molding character is the goal of the imaginary Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys in Choir Boy, it's also the purpose of Chica…
Join Chicago Theatre Workshop on October 28th for their Fall benefit featuring Seth Rudetsky in his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway.
In the deliciously chilling words of Nelson Algren, "Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring." It is all the more an October sort of city when October is actually looming in the im…
The prolific monologist Mike Daisey will return to Chicago next month to perform three new shows about present-day America, Theater Wit announced Tuesday. The three plays, titled "This is No…
News of the two new shows set for pre-Broadway debuts in Chicago during the 2018 season have already been announced, and include “Pretty Woman: The Musical” and “The Cher S…
Broadway in Chicago announced its complete 2018 season lineup Monday, including its subscription series and off-season specials. As previously announced, subscribers will see two pre-Broadwa…
A fresh take on one of Shakespeare's most socially construed works.
MORE “FUN” THAN THE FIRST TIME AROUND Wise and warm, the 100-minute family memoir Fun Home charts the twisted courses of two generations of the Bechdels—a self-shamin…
As we spin our way into October, the nights come earlier and last longer, and things go bump in them. In the suburbs, on some nights, there can be heard the sounds of screaming. Mostly Thurs…
Funeral homes in Chicago, which are not much fun, are sometimes located right next to senior living facilities. Noting such a juxtaposition the other day, my son suggested that there would n…
The inaugural theater festival celebrates the work of Latinx artists from around the world with a special emphasis on local theater companies.
NEW YORK (AP) -- To many fans of Pearl Jam, the band's two-concert stand last summer at Wrigley Field in Chicago was epic. What happened a few months later at that hallowed v…
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The Lyric Opera's new partnership with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago is, at its core, an acknowledgment that it is no longer viable for even a world-class institution like the Lyric to susta…
There is nothing more absurd in the world than familial battles to control the power of overwhelming love which one can see most especially in the brilliant work of CATHERINE COMBS, ANDRUS …
Director Barbara Gaines' all-female Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of William Shakespeare's notorious comedy "The Taming of the Shrew" contains references to the Chicago Cubs, a McCo…
"The Cher Show" will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at the Oriental, running June 12 - July 15, 2018.
The Broadway-bound musical THE CHER SHOW, which celebrates the life and music of global superstar Cher, will premiere next June at Chicago's Oriental Theatre. The five-week pre-Broadway enga…
"The Cher Show" " a fully authorized, bluntly titled, biographically oriented, Broadway-bound musical celebrating the life, works and times of the iconoclastic cultural phenomenon with the A…
Lyric Opera opens their latest season with this stunning collaboration with future resident dance company The Joffrey Ballet.
Myrna Salazar was in Houston the day I talked to her by phone, with a lot to worry about. She has family in Puerto Rico"including her mother, whom, she said, she was trying to get off the hu…
Broadway In Chicago and Producer Paula Wagner are thrilled to announce a new musical based on one of the most beloved [...]
“Pretty Woman” is finally in place to be a Broadway musical. The Garry Marshall-directed hit film starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere Categories: Featured Theater(Read mor…
"EmpowerYouth! Igniting Creativity through the Arts" is a multiyear after school educational and creative partnership that kicks off Oct. 4.