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"Taste of Soul" has a little something for everyone. For those who grew up with soul food and music, it's a delightful trip down memory lane.
From futurism to Jungle Book revisited, this fall dance season has a big range.
"Mic Father Like Son" is full of charm, wit and shtick, an appealing performance for those in the mood for a goofy comedy with a lot of heart.
Paramount Theatre's "Little Shop of Horrors" has it all"fantastic singing, fleshed out characters, hit songs and a hyper-detailed set. If you're in the mood for the macabre, this is the show…
Drury Lane's production of "Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash" is a lovingly performed tribute to a music legend.
For twelve years, Kokandy Productions has been presenting high-quality musicals designed for wide appeal and shallow pockets. Known for producing Chicago premieres of cult-status film proper…
"The Innocence of Seduction," the third in a comic book-themed trilogy written and directed by Max Pracht, begins just before the implementation of the Comics Code.
On January 14 of this year, the big brother to dozens of ballet luminaries in the United States would have celebrated his hundredth birthday. To commemorate the occasion, the Gerald Arpino F…
Majok is back in Chicago, getting ready for a production of her 2020 play "Sanctuary City," at Steppenwolf Theatre, where it will run from September 14 through November 18. Majok says she's …
Growing up queer in a religious household in Missouri, Zach Noe Towers learned how to navigate living in two distinctly different worlds at once.
The television show "Dance Moms" has gained wide popularity for featuring overbearing mothers obsessed with their child's (re: their) dreams of grandeur and stardom, but none of these ladies…
The fall season kicks off with some laughs, some music and some heavy themes about America, race and capitalism.
Fall festivals in comedy and Latino theater? Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
The fall season kicks off with a series of festivals.
The goal of the evening is to serve as an "appetite whetter" for the Lyric's new season.
Harris will kick off its emerald anniversary with an all-day, outdoor festival spread across Millennium Park. Festivities culminate in a three-hour performance in the Pritzker Pavilion of a …
Pharoah will be bringing his potent mix of impersonations and vividly funny tales of his personal life to the stage of Chicago's Den Theatre August 26 as he tapes a new hourlong special.
"The Light" by Loy A. Webb is a seventy-minute one act play about a young Black couple who struggle with a revelation from the past that threatens to break up their budding relationship.
"Dance for Life" is an annual concert that raises money for The Dancers' Fund, which provides health care assistance for dancers and people who work in the dance field. But it also happens t…
As a fan-favorite monthly panelist on the long-running comedic game show "Wait.. Wait…Don't Tell Me!," comedian Alonzo Bodden has been bringing some of the sharpest political jokes on the …
I agree with real-life director L. Walter Stearns' note in the program, that "This show has a little something to offend everyone." The goal is not to offend for the sake of offending, howev…
What is wonderful about "MJ: The Musical" is that it raises as many meaningful questions about creativity when it has a cavernous cultural response and impact as it answers.
"Next to Normal," with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, is not up to the challenge and complexity of its subject.
Performances by Muntu invoke the power of the past in brilliant hues and thunderclaps: drumming, dance and song so joyfully kinetic it would be cruel to ask any other company to follow them.
Big musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
