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Blue Man Group returns to Chicago's Briar Street Theatre after a COVID-19 pandemic pause. Critic Chris Jones reviews the latest iteration.
"I decided to just create my own theater where I can do the scouting and the searching myself for improvisers of all backgrounds, and give them a platform where they can not only perform, bu…
To get back on stage in front of live audiences, or not? That remains the pressing question for many of Chicago's smaller and midsized nonprofit theaters. Raven Theatre in the Edgewater neig…
Shakes in the Parks has always prized entertainment over iambic pentameter, and with that in mind, this year's "Dream: A Community Reimagining of A Midsummer Night's Dream" will be less abou…
Chicago's Den Theatre has announced some big comedic names for fall 2021, including Maria Bamford, Nick Kroll and Cameron Esposito.
A large number of Chicago-area theaters and performing arts companies, led by the League of Chicago Theatres, announced Tuesday morning they will require COVID-19 precautions including proof…
At the Chicago Magic Lounge, the new Trickery and the Magic Parlour, the close-up magic is back. But magicians are finding their stage nerves, if not their hands, need some time to adjust ba…
Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre has announced titles for the company's 2021-22 season, with the opening production, Jason Robert Brown's "Songs For a New World," directed by artistic director Fr…
Tickets go on sale at noon Aug. 11 for a special appearance by TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi.
Porchlight Music Theatre returns to live performances in late October at the Ruth Page Center for Arts with "Pump Boys & Dinettes."
Hot Tix, that Chicago answer to discounted theater tickets, will reopen Aug. 11, according to the League of Chicago Theatres. On sale: Select performances of Broadway In Chicago's upcoming p…
This play directed by Lili-Anne Brown was closed on the edge of its opening night in 2020. All but one of the cast is back. But dusting it off and getting it back on stage has been no simple…
Its late-night show "The Infinite Wrench" is back soon. The season also includes a planned collaboration with the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and the world premiere of a Lu…
About Face Theatre, dedicated to stories about gender and sexuality, is planning to return to live, in-person theater in March 2022 at the Den Theatre.
Hell in a Handbag Productions is back on stage with its unduplicated, uncopiable theatrical celebration of camp and parody, including a murder mystery, "Christmas Dearest" and a whole new wa…
TimeLine Theatre Company is making progress on its new home in the Uptown neighborhood and the theater's managing director Elizabeth K. Auman will step away from her current role to focus on…
The Goodman's first show back is an exuberant production from the director Lili-Anne Brown that is an excellent match for the moment.
"School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
The organization last month purchased property at 1012-16 Church Street in downtown Evanston as it moves closer to building a new theater complex on the site.
Chicago's venerable Studebaker Theater, opened in 1898 and located inside the Fine Arts Building at 410 S. Michigan Ave., has both a new artistic director, Jacob Harvey, and a hefty renovati…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced its new indoor fall season, blending postponed productions from last season with new attractions.
I covered Jackie Mason's live shows in and around Chicago for 20 years. This involved a variety of unchanging rituals and mutually assured deceptions.
Glenn Davis, 40, and Audrey Francis, 42, will succeed Anna D. Shapiro, who announced her departure in May, effective at the end of August, and after six years in the high-visibility and inev…
The first big show to return to Chicago's Loop, Teatro ZinZanni is, at its core, a continental-style dinner circus with shades of old-school vaudeville.
Writers Theatre said Wednesday that Michael Halberstam, its co-founder and the only artistic director it has known during its decades of growth, was resigning effective immediately.
