"IT'S A FREE COUNTRY!" It's one of the seven wonders of the American theater: Few sights on stage are as magical as watching Billie Dawn wise up. This dumb-as-a-rock good-time girl slowly wa…
The season will welcome the new outdoor performance space, the Yard.
Monday, May 1, 6:45 - 9PMMerle Reskin Rehearsal Space, 1624 N. HalstedIMPACT/REACT is a symposium in which leaders from various Chicago theatres and theatre service organizations will engage…
More Shakespearean classics fill out the company's 2017-18 season.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced most of its 2017-18 season of theatrical productions Thursday " including the first programming at The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, its newest indoor th…
AN IDENTITY QUEST COMES UP EMPTY As the cops say, "Nothing to see here, folks. Move right along." Or, as Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, there is no "there there." Both cautions apply to Goo…
DEATH BY ANECDOTE A playwright dredges up her past at her peril. As with Goodman Theatre's current confusion King of the Yees, Sarah Ruhl's For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday is a very…
By Delia Kropp. Artist Delia Kropp discusses the state of transgender theatre in Chicago, Illinois and shares current initiatives to produce work by and for trans and gender-variant artists.
Trap Door Theatre, Chicago, will play host to the production of 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui', on stage from April 13 through April 22, 2017.Directed by Victor Quezada-Perez, the play i…
Bianca Marroquin, a regular fixture of Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical Chicago, announced via twitter today that she will return to the show as 'Roxie Hart'beginning May 1st for a …
The team behind ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, coming to Broadway in Fall 2017, has just announced it will beholding an open casting call in Detroit, MIand Chicago, IL this weekend, April 14 amp 15, 2…
Hotcha! A Chicago veteran is back to rake in the chips. Bianca Marroquín will assume the role of Roxie Hart in the Tony-winning revival from May 1 through July 2, taking over for Char…
The star will perform in the Tony-winning revival for the 17th time.
Had I not seen Chicago's run at the National Theatre eight years ago, maybe I'd consider the current production at the Kennedy Center great instead of good. But I did, so I don't. The chorus…
The Chicago visual artist Herman Aguirre is among the eight early-career artists who have been chosen to receive this year's $50,000 awards from the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund f…
The Tony nominee steps into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
'The Shack' is being screened at Chatham 14 Theatre, Chicago through April 13, 2017.The film is directed by Stuart Hazeldine and casts Sam Worthington, Radha Mitchell, Octavia Spencer, Graha…
FINDING FOCUS Linda Vista is billed as "an adult comedy about immature behavior." Surprisingly tender, Tracy Letts' Steppenwolf stunner examines one man's mid-life crisis from all sides and,…
What a difference a special makes. A year ago, before her Netflix special "Baby Cobra" " one of the best stand-up specials of 2016 " was released, Ali Wong wasn't a name that you would have …
A SPADEFUL OF SUGAR As the supplicating ballad puts it, "Let's hope she will stay." Not just the quintessentially "practically perfect" nanny, Mary Poppins is a kind of cosmic cure. Given th…
Electronic music sensation deadmau5 will be performing at Aragon Ballroom on May 4, 2017 from 9 pm onwards.deadmau5 is a musical project started by DJ Joel Thomas Zimmerman(b. 1981, Niagra F…
"Chicago" was on fire–not literally when Brandy Norwood hit the stage on Thursday night as the show opened at The Kennedy Opera House. A story of murder, corruption, exploitation and a…
The popular musical show 'Chicago' is being staged at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, and will run through April 16, 2017.The show portrays the tale of Roxie …
Grammy Award-winning, R & B superstar Brandy Norwood brought her razzle and dazzle to the Kennedy Center's Opera House, reprising her Broadway debut as "Roxie Hart" in the touring produc…