It was no surprise Wednesday that the PrivateBank Theatre had yet another sold-out crowd for "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop homage to our nation's Founding Fathers. What was differ…
SINKING INTO THE STEPPES Running invisible endurance feats, the characters of Anton Chekhov expose what Henry David Thoreau called “lives of quiet desperation.” When the good doc…
Genocide, terrorism, a massacre, and police violence: Those are the not-so-cheery but exceptionally topical catalysts of four new plays opening within weeks of each other and continuing simu…
Mel B added some extra spice to Roxie Hart on Sunday during her final performance in CHICAGO.
According to a recent study, only 25% of the plays produced in Chicago’s 2015-16 theater [...]
The innovative educational program that launched last year at HAMILTON on Broadway, in partnership with [...]
THIS BROTHERSÂ IS A KEEPER This winner really is a blast from the past. Celebrating America's most explosive and enthralling tap-dancing team, My Brother's Keeper"The Story of the Nicholas…
She started with a bang! Charlotte d'Amboise returns to Broadway's Chicago on February 20. The two-time Tony nominee replaces Spice Girl Mel B, who played her last performance on Feb…
A SOUTH SIDE WEAVE The setting is a beloved beauty parlor on Chicago's South Side. It's seen better times and may soon see none. Hanging over the storefront is a gallery of famous female Afr…
CHICAGO ' Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company will have the world premiere this fall of a new play by Tracy Letts. The play will then move to Broadway.
The Chicago Improv Festival will enter its 20th year of laughter this spring, it was announced Friday. Slated for March 27 to April 2 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., and St…
NO ADO ABOUT LITTLE Never has a lesser comedy enjoyed a lovelier setting: Embraced by a Rococo balustrade, staircase, and pastoral backdrop worthy of Watteau or Boucher, Chicago Shakespeare …
The Rolling Stones' first ever major exhibition, Exhibitionism, delivered by DHL, will make its Chicago [...]
Producer Scott Rudin today announced that Steppenwolf's production of The Minutes, the new play from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Tracy Letts, will have its Broadway prem…
The popular Off-Broadway parody will have its regional premiere in the Windy City next month.
Stage 773 Director of Theatre Management Jill Valentine and co-producer Liz McArthur are happy to [...]
Still can't get tickets to "Hamilton" in Chicago? Prepare to join in the roast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical with an all-Chicago cast at the Royal George Theatre. "Spamilton,"…
Are you over the moon about Wayne Brady's return to the stage as Aaron Burrbut can't get your hands on Hamilton tickets With Charitybuzz, your dream is now a little closer than it seemedThe …
A study of a recent season in the Windy City found that women wrote just 25 percent of plays and directed 36 percent.
After four years of producing plays in Chicago, Step Up Productions is reforming as Step Up Chicago Playwrights. In its new form, Step Up will dedicate itself to supporting new Chicago plays…
Chryssie Whitehead talks about joining Chicago as Go-To-Hell-Kitty, her time in Company and A Chorus Line, and what she tells her students about getting to Broadway.
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents "Norma" by Vincenzo Bellini through February 24, 2017.Norma is a timeless story of love, loyalty, betrayal and jealousy. It was composed by Vincenzo Bellini a…