"a home what howls (or the house what was ravine)" provides insight and representation to those who have been overlooked, paved over and forgotten, and it is another win for Steppenwolf.
"Band's Visit" takes so many of the traditional musical theater-type songs and mashes them together into an enchanting story about what it means to be a person in the world with other people…
The action takes place in Duluth, Minnesota, but playwright Conor McPherson's Irish melancholy weighs heavily throughout, with nods to O'Neill and Wilder.
Its message about the need to stand and fight against a rigged system is as relevant as ever. The work itself, though, has not aged well.
As in the myth of Prometheus, Court Theatre brings the fire to Chicago audiences with "Antigone," a spectacular finale to their Sophocles trilogy.
"Judy's Life's Work" is a story about the salutary power of sibling love and familial responsibility, with a cast that really packs a punch.
New York-based Maria Torres, a dancer, choreographer and educator who works in film, television and Broadway, patented a Latin Jazz style that blends her Brooklyn-raised, Puerto Rican/Cuban/…
You don't come to "Richard III" for history"you come for spectacle and gore, and Chicago Shakespeare delivers.
In presenting the words of real people talking about America's troubled education and criminal justice system in her 2015 play "Notes from the Field," writer and actress Anna Deavere Smith f…
When the degenerate armies of the apocalypse come for you, will mother be enough? "Mothers" asks this question and more, with a gruesome twist ending.
Edelman is bringing the full ninety-minute show back to Chicago, making the leap from a comedy club to a ten-night run of shows from February 15-25 at the internationally renowned Steppenwol…
Mr. Taps has been dancing up a storm on subway platforms and sidewalks in the Loop and Gold Coast neighborhoods for forty years. He is often credited by Chicagoans as their first time seeing…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-Award winning musical about the strength of the communal family, set to a Latin-infused hip-hop soundtrack, comes to the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire.
A taught politically charged thriller played out in the shadows of America's retreat from Afghanistan.
The social media world is a "cool" place (in Marshall McLuhan's term)"you have to fill in the details. The story might work better in a cooler medium, like television.
"Flood" by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, presented by Shattered Globe Theatre, imagines an extinction-level event out of the Book of Genesis occurring in modern times.
"The Best Damn Thing" is a semi-autobiographical retrospective on pop singer Avril Lavigne, developed in a show-within-a-show format told through the lens of two high school age women, Ellie…
February is a month of debuts"new artistic directors, new spaces and world premieres.
February brings local favorites like the Joffrey and Hubbard Street, along with international stalwarts to Chicago dance stages.
In its Chicago premiere, "Champion" has strong vocal performances, exuberant dancing and a creative, multi-level set by Allen Moyer, which uses projected images of real newspaper headlines a…
What if the rain never stopped? Where do you go when the world tries to drown you?
Deanna Ortiz is one highly ambitious and in-demand comic.
Ponnelle's mounting remains a near-ideal take on the piece, and his whimsical grey-stone settings and eye-catching costumes emit as much fairytale dazzle as ever.
"This is one of the finest productions of a Brecht play I've seen in Chicago, or anywhere else for that matter."
Steppenwolf is the most recognizable name in Chicago theater. Since 2016 the venerable institution has become an incubator of multidisciplinary and experimental performance as well, presente…