Chicago theaters to dim lights in honor of Martha Lavey
Chicago theaters will honor Martha Lavey by dimming their marquee lights and observing a moment of silence this Friday. Lavey, the former Steppenwolf Theatre Company artistic director and lo…
Chicago theaters will honor Martha Lavey by dimming their marquee lights and observing a moment of silence this Friday. Lavey, the former Steppenwolf Theatre Company artistic director and lo…
BEFORE ANY GLASS MENAGERIE, A PRISON SWEATBOX It's not the "odor of mendacity" that wafts through this Tennessee Williams play"it's more like the whiff of tear gas. The "kindness of stranger…
Ms. Lavey was the theatre company’s first female artistic leader.
She spent two decades in the post and influenced the careers of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts and many others. read more
PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS Growing up on a steady diet of animated and live-action Disney films and in the shadow of the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, which I visited every year until I was 1…
The 44th annual ceremony will be held June 5.
DISCO DESPAIR Now festering at Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre, 3C, David Adjmi's 90-minute one-act, is perversely perky, as zany as a zombie. With rapid-fire non-sequiturs and six crazy/need…
HAPPY HOAX OR LITERARY LARCENY? Can we really separate a creator from his art? Can our sense of Shakespeare feel more real to us than his characters do? These aren't rhetorical questions: A …
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce their annual FREE BROADWAY IN CHICAGO SUMMER CONCERT, sponsored by ABC 7 [...]
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce the premiere engagement of the eagerly-anticipated North American [...]
HIVE AGAINST HIVE Bees, it seems, are humming their last. In the future,honey could well be synthetic. Appropriately debuting on Earth Day weekend, this world premiere from Chicago's Victory…
Center Theatre Group will partner with regional theaters in Chicago, New York and London to co-commission works by renowned playwrights including Pultizer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and Paul…
Chicago Theatre Workshop announced the cast of the Chicago premiere of "Little Miss Sunshine" Thursday. The production stars Sophie Kaegi as Olive Hoover with Greg Foster as Richard, Sharyon…
The gleaming white teeth of Adam Jacobs have done many sparkly trips around the rialto since their owner opened on Broadway atop "Aladdin," the most frenetic and intentionally cartoonish of …
"Unforgettable" will be screened at Hollywood Palms Cinema, Naperville, Chicago, from April 21 through April 27, 2017.The film is directed by Denise Di Novi and stars Katherine Heigl, Rosari…
The title of this engaging dark comedy by Tracy Letts ("August: Osage County," "Superior Donuts"), "Linda Vista," refers to the San Diego community in which protagonist Wheeler (Ian Barford)…
SONDHEIM'S CARE PACKAGE FOR LOST LOVERS In a melodically and lyrically mediocre time like, for instance, 2017, even lesser songs by Stephen Sondheim beat half the musicals at large. In 1981 …
Underscore Theatre Company is currently accepting submissions for its 4th annual CHICAGO MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL, set for February 2018 (venue to be announced). Applications can be submitte…
When the Stephen Petronio Company visited from New York in October 2015 to open the season at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, it performed the first episode in a dance series P…
The RHOBH star would make the ideal Roxie Hart, here's why.
On Sunday, April 16, SAKS FIFTH AVENUE and President MARC METRICK, in partnership with BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS, hosted a selection of musical performances from top Broadway shows ou…
It's Saturday, and that means it's time for what has become one of the theatre community's most beloved traditions- BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup This week the casts a…
Rachel Rockwell directs Lee Hall's adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film.