Written by John Pielmeier in 1979, the play is about a young nun named Agnes found bleeding and unconscious in her convent bedroom. The audience gets the full, hurricane blast of this perfor…
"Pippin" is not your everyday musical. A fictional work that makes loose use of medieval historical figures, the title character is Charlemagne's oldest son returning home from university an…
"The Memory Place" is the tenth iteration of Pivot Arts' annual festival of theater, music, dance and multidisciplinary performance. This year the co-curators gathered five pieces under a te…
When a terrific singing actress is in the role of Rose, you can't take your eyes from her, and you can't help but sympathize.
This is the original "West Side Story" as it was originally conceived in 1957, which is to say the original song order is preserved and its radical elements are left to pack a wallop.
The narrative unfolds like viewing a picture up close and slowly stepping backwards to get the big picture. Through a series of short vignettes unfold the lives of townsfolk living in a Poli…
"Tango" addresses the social stigmatization toward gay people in the context of modern-day Singapore.
It is in sleep that everything happens, and an office drone becomes a hero and a warrior. His quest is figuring out how to bring his dream life into his real one.
Comic Hari Kondabolu brings his unique point of view to life to his beloved Chicago audiences at the Den Theatre
Take your pick: musical or off-center romantic comedy
Nick Sandys is directing the world premiere of "Shaw vs. Tunney" produced by Grippo Stage Company
Court Theatre continues their series of plays by Sophocles about the last days of Oedipus reimagined as a Pentecostal church service. There is lots of singing, with each cast member displayi…
Known for dances made alongside original music, CRDT presents an evening of work by choreographer Monique Haley. The program, centered around the world premiere of the now-complete "Soul Rem…
Dance puts a toe into the great outdoors this month
Heidi Schreck's play showcases our narrator regaling us with her complicated love story. This romance between an American teen circa the 1980s and the United States Constitution circa the 17…
Eli is a TV writer who has become sick of writing fictional stories about fantasy heroes, and instead decides to speak only hard, personal truths designed to free himself and others from the…
Parental sacrifice figures large in this original musical.
The Raven Theatre is transformed into the basement apartment of a three-flat in the 1960s on the South Side of Chicago, where a Black grandmother works tirelessly to protect her home and gra…
Rennie Harris' new piece, a tribute to Chicago House music and legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles, will appear alongside recent commissions from Hope Boykin, Randy Duncan, and a world premiere fr…
A show that portrays "real" Muslim characters who spend half the show in their undergarments, twisting and contorting in all manner of sexual positions, and the other half having deep conver…
What does an early twentieth-century Arctic explorer and a modern-day single mother/struggling musician have in common? Almost nothing! And yet they make for the most charming companions in …
Edwards owes his impressive comedy career to working at a drive-thru.
Antonio Edwards Suarez puts in a career defining performance in this insightful meditation on race and identity.
This British musical seems to pull off the impossible. The mesmerizing but highly complex score requires singers and musicians who can manage its intricate rhythms with precision and still a…