Charlotte d'Amboise is returning to Broadway's Chicago on February 20. The two-time Tony nominee is replacing Spice Girl Mel B in the role of Roxie Hart at the Ambassador T…
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME I fondly recall the infectiously brilliant Cardiff Giant shows that Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann perpetrated in the 80s and 90s. After so much success in Chicago, it's …
THE URGE TO BE USEFUL Steppenwolf Theatre is great at stirring things up"on stage and in the minds of its crowds. Nobody does it so well. Exhibit A is their latest offering: There's good cau…
THE SONGS AND THE FURY Sardonic, ironic, cheeky, subversive"hip epithets can't convey the excruciating call-and-response fusion of humor and horror, laughter and tears, that you feel seeing …
Paul Organisak, former vice president in charge of programming for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust who is perhaps best known for helping to bring the yellow duck to Pittsburgh in 2013, has a n…
TAKING OUT THE (WHITE) TRASH Ever since 1981, small-town souls, Dixie doodles and atavistic Red State rednecks have fueled the fun in the Tuna trilogy. It's a hilarious perpetration by adapt…
According to the Chicago Tribune, film star and Second City alumnus Mike Myers Austin Powers, Shrek, Wayne's Worldwill play improv great Del Close in a new biopic produced by the Windy City …
Mike Myers, the actor who starred in "Wayne's World," "Austin Powers" and on "Saturday Night Live!" and whose career began at Second City, will play the role of the real-life improv guru Del…
The theatre welcomes the return of the acclaimed playwright following the success of Good for Otto.
When Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. played Aaron Burr in Broadway's "Hamilton," he seethed. Joshua Henry, who originally played the part in Chicago and will reprise the role in the upcoming tou…
More than 100 productions are taking part in the annual discount-ticket event.
Molly Brennan will play the drifter who upends a small town in American Theater Company’s production of the William Inge classic.
Mel B chats about the joys of returning to Broadway in Chicago, the Spice Girls group text and her "no filter" style of judging America's Got Talent.
ANATEVKA COMES HOME In this world premiere of a newly commissioned and instantly topical new work, Chicago Shakespeare Theater makes it clear: Karen Hartman's The Book of Joseph is not just …
Lyric Opera announced today that Tony Award-winning Broadway star Jessie Mueller and gospel and RampB sensation Michelle Williams will join the line-up of performers slated for the Chicago V…
The evening features artists with deep ties to Chicago.
HE FOUND HIS HEART IN SAN FRANCISCOÂ (AND MORE) I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett totally earns its title. Created in 2005 by David Grapes and Todd Olson, this warmly …
Mel B has graced Times Square in a brand new billboardfor CHICAGO She will continue to spice up Broadway through February 19at the Ambassador Theatre 219 W. 49th St., NYC.
PROTECTING YOURÂ ASSET The best thing about The Bodyguard, Lawrence Kasdan's Oscar-nominated 1992 film, was how it put the late Whitney Houston on the map and in our hearts. Despite zero c…
Young Jean Lee wrote and directs the piece at Steppenwolf.
THE DEAD WEIGHT OF RANDOM TALK Richard Greenberg's better works"Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain, The Violet Hour"stand out by putting enough in play to make us care. Raven Theatre's distress…