Mark your calendar for noon this Saturday (Feb. 20) at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. That's when the Chicago premiere of "My America Too (Taking Theater to the Streets"), an int…
Careening seamlessly between the goofily sublime and the utterly ridiculous, "Sister Act" is pure musical comedy "nunsense" - a show (like the 1992 film that inspired it) designed to supply …
On a recent New York afternoon, Joel Grey, 83, was in high spirits, marking the publication of his memoir, "Master of Ceremonies." For a performer who hid who he was for decades, Grey is now…
Scan the Chicago cultural landscape and you will notice that in many cases it is ... The post Chicago’s Lookingglass, A Red Orchid theater companies among 2016 MacArthur grant recipien…
The Joffrey Ballet makes no small plans. And anyone who has caught its current "Bold Moves" program - running through Sunday at the Auditorium Theatre - will know that its sensational dancer…
This month, in a fine confluence of events connected to Shakespeare 400 Chicago "Â the celebration ... The post A play and a ballet: Double exposure for Shakespeare’s ‘Othello&…
A man of easy elegance and self-possession, as well as impeccable discretion and discipline, Alonzo Fields served four United States presidents - Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H…
"Madness is contagious." We hear this warning often throughout "2666," the monumental, labyrinthine, altogether hypnotic 5 1/2-hour magnum opus that has now arrived on the stage of the Good…
Three world premieres, two Midwest premieres and performances by Mike Nussbaum and Francis Guinan. That is the one-sentence summary of the 2016-2017 just announced by Skokie-based Northlight…
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "The Bodyguard" and "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" are among the lineup for Broadway In Chicago's 2016-17 season, joining the previously ann…
The first thing you might want to do before seeing Annie Baker's 2014 Pultizer Prize-wining "The Flick," now in an ideally realized Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, is to re-set your…
The clash of social classes has served as the high-octane fuel for countless British plays, from John Osborne's landmark 1956 work, "Look Back in Anger," to Laura Wade's scathing "Posh," fir…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Broadway debut of "Cabaret," Kander and Ebb's genius of a musical about the end of the flamboyant era of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the N…
The national tour of the thrilling musical "Cabaret" is about to launch and it's led by a young woman who knows it intimately. After all, Andrea Goss watched it for a year on Broadway " from…
Blair Brown has joined the cast of the Steppenwolf Theatre world premiere of Tracy Letts' "Mary Page Marlowe." The post Blair Brown joining cast of Tracy Letts’ ‘Mary Page Marlow…
BY TRICIA DESPRES | FOR THE SUN-TIMES As a child, Marc Salem knew what he was ... The post Marc Salem mines his audience for mind-blowing experience appeared first on Chicago Enterta…
Still haven’t locked down your plans for the weekend? Here are some suggestions sure to ... The post The Mix " The Chicago Auto Show (and 4 more cool things to check out this weekend) …
"Far From Heaven," the musical by Scott Frankel (music), Michael Korie (lyrics) and Richard Greenberg (book) - based on the 2002 film by Todd Haynes that starred Julianne Moore as Cathy Whit…
Noted musical theater star Norm Lewis, who made Broadway history as the first African-American to star in the title role in "The Phantom of the Opera," will be the headliner at the Goodman T…
First, a toast to many things: To Queen Victoria, cigars and brandy, the arrested development ... The post The British Empire rules again in hilarious ‘Explorers Club’ appeared f…
A publicist for Ken Watanabe says the Tony Award- and Oscar-nominated actor has been forced to delay his return to Broadway's "The King and I" while he battles stomach cancer. The post Tony-…
By Wynne Delacoma | For the Sun-Times Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" is a poignant blend ... The post Lyric Opera’s charming ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ a beauty to beh…
The fourth annual edition of Chicago Theatre Week - a program presented by the League of Chicago Theatres in partnership with Choose Chicago, that was designed to boost theater-going during …
"The Ben Hecht Show," written and performed by James Sherman, will have its premiere here in a Grippo Stage Company production set to run June 10-July 17 at Evanston's Piven Theatre, 927 Noy…
Writers Theatre, which has called the leafy, upscale, North Shore town of Glencoe its home since its founding in 1992 by reigning artistic director Michael Halberstam, is about to open the d…