Chicago's next pre-Broadway tryout: "Pretty Woman: The Musical," a new show based on the 27-year-old Julia Roberts-and-Richard Gere romantic comedy about a Sunset Boulevard prostitute who fa…
The musical will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell ("Kinky Boots").
If audiences turned out to the Auditorium Theatre over the weekend expecting to see an Olympic-style spectacle, they surely left disappointed. While Shen Wei, the MacArthur "genius"-award wi…
Michael George, a Columbia College graduate and Chicago-based actress, will join the cast of the Chicago production of "Hamilton," it was announced Monday. George will join the company as a …
Ready to listen to "(Just a) Simple Sponge" on repeat? The SpongeBob SquarePants cast album is now available from MasterWorks Broadway. Produced by Scott Riesett and Tom Kitt, the …
A quiz for you: Which Chicago venue is the host of the following A-list attractions in October? One week of tapings of "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah." Stephanie Miller's "Sexy Liberal Res…
The Sarah Siddons Society of Chicago honored its 2017 recipients of the prestigious Actor of the Year Award in a lavish event this week at the Hilton Orrington Hotel in Evanston. Kate Baldwi…
Like a pimply adolescent morphing into clear-skinned maturity, Navy Pier is slowly transforming itself from a hyper-commercialized shopping mall-by-the-lake into an appealing public space. T…
Sadly, the whole production wears you down as often as it enchants.
"My Brother My Brother and Me" will be staged at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago.The McElroy brothers are popular. The brothers, Justin, Travis, and Griffin are known for their advice show call…
MORE PLAYS ON THE PIER Tuesday night's "consecration of the house," attended by Chicago's Mayor Emmanuel, was a celebration that this care-ridden city badly needed. The big news is the gr…
UNSTOPPABLE AND UNSPARING This week Goodman Theater's season-opener, a landmark drama from 1955, exploded into relevance. A rarity worth a return, Arthur Miller's original 120-minute, one-ac…
A PAINTING IS A PORTAL Art is never still, not just still lifes but landscapes, genre scenes, even abstract configurations and, especially, portraits. Every painting is a time capsule that a…
The change to the marquee follows an acquisition from CIBC.
Broadway In Chicago announced today that The PrivateBank Theatre at 18 W. Monroe will have [...]
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) opens its new, innovative third theater on Navy Pier, The Yard at Chicago [...]
A small but enthusiastic crowd assembled at Skokie's North Shore Center for the Performing Arts for Visceral Dance Chicago's fall offering, the official season opener for the fledgling compa…
ORWELLIAN OR TRUMPIAN?:Â 1984Â MEETS 2017 Everything evil is new again: What George Orwell wrote 69 years ago still remains ahead of our time—but, with a President in power who pur…
The parody of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s megahit Hamilton opened in Chicago last spring.
Today, the producers of 'Spamilton,' the critically acclaimed parody of 'Hamilton,' announced an October 8 closing date for the Chicago run at the Royal George Theatre 1641 N. Halsted.
Brian d'Arcy James of Netflix's series 13 Reasons Why, Academy Award-winning film Spotlight, and Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Hamilton is set to take on the 26.2-mile-long challenge of th…
"Spamilton" will end its open run in Chicago Oct. 8, the New York based producers of the hit "Hamilton" parody announced Thursday. The skewering of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize-winnin…
The new musical opens on Broadway this fall.
The Yard theater at Navy Pier has a unique feature: It can transform. Nine huge seating towers can be moved around with ease, to create a wide range of stage and seating configurations for a…