For the next ten days Chicago is the puppet capital of the world
Spring 1988. The Spanish puppet company Comediants is onstage at Park West and a 26-year-old Blair Thomas is in the audience having a revelation.…
Spring 1988. The Spanish puppet company Comediants is onstage at Park West and a 26-year-old Blair Thomas is in the audience having a revelation.…
On last night's LATE SHOW, Mel B, the new star of CHICAGOon Broadway toldStephen the real story of who gave the Girls their nicknames.
Puerto Rican independence activist will be free May 17 after Obama commuted his sentence.
Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter Tuesday to celebrate the presidential commutation of Oscar López Rivera, a 74-year-old Puerto Rican nationalist, activist, and member of the Ma…
He is celebrating the release from prison of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera.
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda said he was "sobbing with gratitude" about the news that President Obama commuted the sentence of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera and sai…
HAMILTON creator and original starLin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter today to express his gratitude following the newsthatPresident Obama had commuted the sentence of Puerto Rican nationalis…
Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce WICKED, Broadway's biggest blockbuster and Chicago's most popular [...]
A CONSECRATION AND A CONCERT FIT FOR A KING Chicago Sinfonietta's annual concert to commemorate Martin Luther King"now in its fourth decade"held more relevance and righteousness than usual, …
Goodness knows: The national tour of "Wicked" is returning to Chicago for a seven-week engagement during the holiday season at the end of this year, Broadway in Chicago announced Monday. The…
An open house will be held January 22.
The stage and screen star steps into the role of Aaron Burr.
Producer Jeffrey Seller and Broadway In Chicago welcomefive-time Emmy Award winner and Grammy nominee Wayne Brady, joining theChicago company of Hamilton as Aaron Burr for a limited engageme…
THE HERO JOURNEY OF AÂ DRAG QUEEN Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is, of course, a much-loved 1994 "staying out" film from seemingly straight Australia. It spins the peripatetic tale of thr…
Comedian Chris Tucker may not know how to structure a coherent 85-minute comedy set (more on that later) but he definitely knows how to make an entrance. Most comedians enter from stage left…
LEARNING TO BE DEAD Orpheus usually gets top billing in the classical Greek legend. He is of course the master of music who literally goes to Hell to retrieve his beloved Eurydice, abducted …
WHAT OF OURÂ SUFFERING IN THE NIGHT? Ambition should be made of smarter stuff. Nearly three hours of unfocused agitation, What of the Night? begs its own incoherent question. It's not the …
Meg Miroshnik’s drama plays Theater Wit.
To many of us at McCormick Place on Tuesday night, it felt a lot like the end of a Chicago dream. You know, those final, increasingly melancholy moments of reverie before someone wakes you u…
Adam Jacobs, Broadway's original Aladdin in the Disney musical with flying carpet rides, wish-granting genies and catchy tunes like "A Whole New World," will reprise the title role in the No…
Susan Stroman will direct Beast in the Jungle
Photo courtesy The Pasadena Playhouse Almost a year after strutting the Al-Hirschfeld stage in knee-highs in Broadway's Kinky Boots, Emmy-winner Wayne Brady will take on the role of Aaron Bu…
CATHARSIS IN A BASEMENT It's not easy for actors to lose control without losing the role as well. A master of concentrated dread and systematic despair, Kate Buddeke haunts this solo show. S…
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BroadwayWorld has learned that a Trump supporter interrupted the Saturday evening performance of Hamilton in Chicago. An audience member seated in the balcony allegedly shouted 'We won You L…