In Paul Stancato's casual production, the Plaids had adjusted to the new world order, ad-libbing about germs, but still singing "Three Coins in a Fountain" and "Catch a Falling Star."
I miss the music: After 18 months of closure, the Marriott Theatre returns with a COVID adaptation of a Kander and Ebb revue.
After a year away, Destinos: Chicago International Latino Theater Festival returns to brighten Chicago stages with presenters both local and international.
The basics remain the same: The Neo-Futurists ensemble attempts to perform 30 short plays in 60 minutes, with the order of the plays determined by the audience.
Women now hold both top leadership roles at the Equity-affiliated African American theater.
A creepy 'Macbeth' in Chicago fights deliciously with the recovery narrative so common in the arts. Here you had a night of healing togetherness followed by an opera in which the heavens unl…
"Macbeth" by Lyric Opera is the debut for music director Enrique Mazzola, a new production of the Verdi opera directed by Sir David McVicar.
Falls has been the most influential figure of Chicago theater of his generation and his departure is a milestone in the Chicago arts.
After a 35-year run leading Chicago's most prestigious theater company, Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls is to resign, effective at the end of the current season in August 2022.
Falls has been the most influential figure of Chicago theater of his generation and his departure is a milestone in the Chicago arts.
Eighteen months after the global pandemic shuttered live theater in March 2020, Broadway takes a step forward Tuesday when "The Lion King," "Hamilton" and "Wicked" open with new safety proto…
Navy Pier will host a series of outdoor performances Sept. 24-25. Dubbed "Chicago LIVE Again," the two-day festival will have performances produced by Broadway in Chicago, Chicago Children's…
Victory Gardens Theater has announced its upcoming season at the Biograph in Lincoln Park. The slate will feature three mainstage productions including a world premiere and will begin with "…
A little more than a week ago, after 14 years at the helm of 16th Street Theater, she retired from from the company she had built. A new chapter begins for her and the theater, recognized fo…
"When Harry Met Rehab," a new comedy about sobriety, has been announced for the Greenhouse Theater Center starring Dan Butler of "Frasier" fame.
A city spokesperson was noncommittal on the idea.
Theater Wit's decision to return (sooner than most) to live off-Loop performance with a reprise of its 2015 production of Anne Washburn's hit is clearly designed to get its audience thinking…
Here, in the return of a September tradition, are 10 shows that should help you remember why Chicago theater is such a crucial part of this city. Plus one more for the holidays.
Dance companies have been managing their return to live performances in fits and starts, this fall including Deeply Rooted, the Joffrey finally at the Lyric and fan favorites by Ensemble Esp…
The House Theatre of Chicago has announced its upcoming season, its first under new artistic director Lanise Antoine Shelley.
On a blistering Sunday afternoon, a walk around North Lawndale as part of Theatre Y's "You Are Here" series perfectly encapsulated both the promise and the potential pitfalls of the theater …
Theatre Y 's "You Are Here: The Emerald Camino Project," is a six-hour walking "conversation" through one of the 12 Chicago neighborhoods that make up the "emerald necklace," a boulevard sys…
Writers Theatre has announced its 2021-2022 season, with four plays for live audiences at the theater in Glencoe for its 30th anniversary.
The Lyric Opera of Chicago's new musical director, Enrique Mazzola, gave his first major public performance in Millennium Park. There was excitement in the air.
After a two-year delay, "Kinky Boots" opens at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora. You can feel the emotions bursting out of the hearts of the cast.