Back in the early years of the non-Equity storefront theater company known as Theo"which began as Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre"it was pretty much founder and artistic director Fred Anzevino's…
The best thing about "Mrs. Doubtfire: A New Musical Comedy" is that it restores the heartfelt message of the original book"that divorce doesn't have to be an end for a family, but can simply…
Classics, riffs on classics, and Broadway's hottest playwright hit Chicago stages in March.
"Party at the Pantheon," running through March 23 at The Factory Theater, bills itself as "a modern Greek stoner comedy" and delivers on that tagline.
"I know the standards for what is supposed to happen onstage and they are not things that invite that deep improvisational spirit. Things that don't invite that, we thwart."
"It is one of my all-time favorite plays, and Invictus Theatre's production is a brilliant example of how to handle this intense two-hander."
This play sees the contradictions at the heart of this country"the tragic infrastructure under its noble façade. Monticello won't look the same when you think of all the people who were m…
It's solid, gripping writing, delivered with crystalline sincerity, and it hits like a sledge hammer.
When new Goodman artistic director Susan V. Booth asked Mary Zimmerman what she might want to do this season, a small-scale rethinking of "The Magic Flute" was the response. That means th…
Masood Boomgaard had to deal with a friend who was constantly trying to motivate him with self-help books throughout the early months of the pandemic. Boomgaard found great annoyance in thei…
The Joffrey Ballet's current"and spectacular"evening of dance is a modern-day rhapsody in blue, exploring with skill and sensitivity the range of moods and meanings associated with that most…
"a home what howls (or the house what was ravine)" provides insight and representation to those who have been overlooked, paved over and forgotten, and it is another win for Steppenwolf.
"Band's Visit" takes so many of the traditional musical theater-type songs and mashes them together into an enchanting story about what it means to be a person in the world with other people…
The action takes place in Duluth, Minnesota, but playwright Conor McPherson's Irish melancholy weighs heavily throughout, with nods to O'Neill and Wilder.
Its message about the need to stand and fight against a rigged system is as relevant as ever. The work itself, though, has not aged well.
As in the myth of Prometheus, Court Theatre brings the fire to Chicago audiences with "Antigone," a spectacular finale to their Sophocles trilogy.
"Judy's Life's Work" is a story about the salutary power of sibling love and familial responsibility, with a cast that really packs a punch.
New York-based Maria Torres, a dancer, choreographer and educator who works in film, television and Broadway, patented a Latin Jazz style that blends her Brooklyn-raised, Puerto Rican/Cuban/…
You don't come to "Richard III" for history"you come for spectacle and gore, and Chicago Shakespeare delivers.
In presenting the words of real people talking about America's troubled education and criminal justice system in her 2015 play "Notes from the Field," writer and actress Anna Deavere Smith f…
When the degenerate armies of the apocalypse come for you, will mother be enough? "Mothers" asks this question and more, with a gruesome twist ending.
Edelman is bringing the full ninety-minute show back to Chicago, making the leap from a comedy club to a ten-night run of shows from February 15-25 at the internationally renowned Steppenwol…
Mr. Taps has been dancing up a storm on subway platforms and sidewalks in the Loop and Gold Coast neighborhoods for forty years. He is often credited by Chicagoans as their first time seeing…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-Award winning musical about the strength of the communal family, set to a Latin-infused hip-hop soundtrack, comes to the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire.
A taught politically charged thriller played out in the shadows of America's retreat from Afghanistan.