For its seventy-fifth anniversary, the legendary New York City Ballet, founded by George Balanchine, performs its first appearance in Chicago in eighteen years. Three programs offer a sampli…
Despite his name being in the title, the protagonist of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is not the most celebrated character in the work. That would go to the Weird Sisters, the trio of cave-dwellin…
Ronnie Marmo returns in his celebratory exploration of one of comedy's most complex figures.
In Margaret Atwood's retelling of the life of Penelope, the veiled, enigmatic, ever-weaving wife of Odysseus, is reborn.
The show mixes dramatic depth with plenty of laughs as Akana recounts dealing with her sister's suicide when she was seventeen and her own mental health struggles. She promises Chicago audie…
"End Days" reminds us that the overtones of strangeness, precariousness and disequilibrium that define reality these days began exactly at the moment when the American public lost its sense …
The first delicacy one notices in RE|dance Group's new work is the quality of the light. Illuminated rectangles of varying dimensions are scattered across the black floor, casting a soft glo…
It was an inspiring bit of casting to reunite soprano Michelle Bradley and tenor Russell Thomas as the doomed lovers Aida and Radamès.
"Wipeout" is a reminder that there is no age limit on adventure, and that personal growth is a lifelong endeavor.
Jacobs-Jenkins invites audiences to rethink the concept of family in "Purpose" at Steppenwolf Theatre. "I'm interested in exploring the political dynastic family, and how there is a very thi…
It is the treatment that women receive in male-dominated industries that is the subject of "Silent Sky," written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Beth Wolf. On stage at Citadel Theatre th…
"The Time Machine," written and directed by Daryl D. Brooks, focuses on the chart-topping tunes of the 1980s, ranging from R&B super groups like New Edition and DeBarge to the bombastic …
The past, present and future of dance will get you on your feet.
"I wanted a place to do comedy for people my own age and with the same lived experiences of being a mom, being married, trying to work and just be a human being," explains Telisman.
Back in the early years of the non-Equity storefront theater company known as Theo"which began as Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre"it was pretty much founder and artistic director Fred Anzevino's…
The best thing about "Mrs. Doubtfire: A New Musical Comedy" is that it restores the heartfelt message of the original book"that divorce doesn't have to be an end for a family, but can simply…
Classics, riffs on classics, and Broadway's hottest playwright hit Chicago stages in March.
"Party at the Pantheon," running through March 23 at The Factory Theater, bills itself as "a modern Greek stoner comedy" and delivers on that tagline.
"I know the standards for what is supposed to happen onstage and they are not things that invite that deep improvisational spirit. Things that don't invite that, we thwart."
"It is one of my all-time favorite plays, and Invictus Theatre's production is a brilliant example of how to handle this intense two-hander."
This play sees the contradictions at the heart of this country"the tragic infrastructure under its noble façade. Monticello won't look the same when you think of all the people who were m…
It's solid, gripping writing, delivered with crystalline sincerity, and it hits like a sledge hammer.
When new Goodman artistic director Susan V. Booth asked Mary Zimmerman what she might want to do this season, a small-scale rethinking of "The Magic Flute" was the response. That means th…
Masood Boomgaard had to deal with a friend who was constantly trying to motivate him with self-help books throughout the early months of the pandemic. Boomgaard found great annoyance in thei…
The Joffrey Ballet's current"and spectacular"evening of dance is a modern-day rhapsody in blue, exploring with skill and sensitivity the range of moods and meanings associated with that most…