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This may well be the finest version of the show ever mounted " the original 1998 Broadway production included.
Among the highlights of her tenure was a 2011 Regional Theatre Tony Award.
The brainy Leonard Bernstein musical unspools in an extraordinarily fine Music Theater Works production.
Performances were canceled on a day-to-day basis since Tuesday when the actor became ill while performing the one-man show about Ernest Hemingway.
The impulses that drive fiercely ambitious people are many and varied, and while there are rewards aplenty for those few who succeed on a grand level, the price exacted for such success is o…
Workshop readings of "Naked Lunch: The Musical" will focus on an obscenity trial of author William S. Burroughs,
Actor Stacy Keach, who has had to cancel performances of “Pamplona,” his one-man show about Ernest Hemingway, since falling ill during opening night’s show on Tuesday, Â …
Shannon will return to Chicago to direct the world premiere of Brett Neveu's "Traitor."
The superb revival of the musical that opened Wednesday at Writers' Theatre should bring a whole new audience to this work.
The funding will be used to bring the "Disney Musicals in Schools" initiative to Chicago-area elementary school students.
The show's star, veteran actor Stacy Keach is undergoing tests at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Actor Stacy Keach is undergoing medical tests.
Director Robert Falls stopped the action about an hour in at the Goodman Theatre.
"Cry It Out," a play by Molly Smith Metzler, will now close out the theater's 43rd season.
Demetri Martin drew on personal loss " the early death of his father, his mom's early onset Alzheimer's " to inspire his writing of his film, "Dean."
We're not quite done with the icy saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan.
"King Liz" is a no-holds-barred portrait of a powerful woman at the top of her game who must face the biggest challenge of her career.
SEEN ON THE SCENE: Ricky Gervais is so happy about the crowds at his sold-out gigs Wednesday and Thursday in Chicago, the comedian and well-known animal welfare advocate donated $10,000 t…
Here's a look at where to find summer fun in the city and suburbs.
Before being appointed artistic director of Congo Square he taught at such Chicago theaters as Victory Gardens, Steppenwolf, American Theatre Company,
Co-directed by Lavina Jadhwani and Nick Sandys, a reimagined "Great Expectations" achieves mixed results in telling the story of Pip's evolution.
Wondering where celebrities like Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Piven, Anthony Rizzo, Anna Pacquin and others have been seen around town? We've got it here.
In Court Theatre's production, director Devon De Mayo pulls off a feat as impressive as any rabbit-in-a-hat trick.
Mark St. Germain's play about a largely opaque chapter in the life of Albert Einstein is an exercise in dramatic speculation.
The "Girls" co-creator says surgery and physical therapy to treat endometriosis caused "the greatest amount of physical pain I've ever experienced."
