The early twentieth-century fictional Harlem musician Coalhouse Walker in E.L. Doctorow's novel"also the centerpiece of this musical"is a powerful symbol of racial injustice. And yet it is a…
An incisive, suitably atonal but pitch-perfect Chicago premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury's 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning play that leads, relentlessly, to unexpected heights of humor and drama…
The minimum-wage workplace as depicted in this world premiere drama is a nightmare of tedious toil, endless surveillance and absolute disrespect.
Lifeline's funny, poignant, zippy production of Endesha Ida Mae Holland's 1990 play about the writer's life-long journey from the Jim Crow South, through the Civil Rights Movement of the 196…
For Ellyzabeth Adler, founder and artistic director, T.S. Eliot's heap of broken images is a longtime literary favorite and the source material for the first dance theater piece she created …
"Big River" is a musical based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, with songs by Roger Miller. Mercury Theater's production is crisply moving, superbly sung and highly entertaining.
Get downtown and see this show. It may change you for good. It will certainly raise your standards on what to expect from a musical, including one direct from Broadway.
The Lincoln Lodge's "Latest and Greatest" show serves up a perfect mix of rising talents and veteran favorites
This is true, exciting storefront theater, set in a literal, narrow storefront on 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood. It's challenging, passionate, and beautifully in your face.
May is for musical comedy and edgy new work.
The playwright messes with the rituals and conventions of theater to get deep inside messy interlocking themes, including ethnicity, bias, justice, empathy and creativity.
From Frank Lloyd Wright to T.S. Eliot, dance shows its range in May.
It's the story of a man so desperate for the Washington Senators to trounce the Yankees that he is willing to sell his soul to do it.
Paramount Theatre's eleventh anniversary Broadway Series concludes with "School of Rock," a light-hearted rock musical based on the 2003 comedy movie of the same name.
The old music is an impressive collection of folk standards. The new play is a trio of voices working their way through a familial landscape.
The five lead dancers skillfully meld precise, athletic movement"in a contemporary ballet mode"with expressive theatricality.
The title character of Jessica Dickey's play is also the subject of Dava Sobel's bestselling book of the same name. Sobel's book about the great scientist's brilliant, illegitimate cloistere…
A full and convincing portrait of a family that works against great odds to stay together and give its members the support and tough love they need.
No one does thriller or horror like A Red Orchid Theatre, truly.
Pat McGann may have started his stand-up career later than most, but he's on top now with two April 22 shows at the Chicago Theatre
The show centers around waspy, middle-class suburbanites, The Healy family, each of whom are suffering from a different existential crisis.
For Goodman's current production of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," Robert Falls has adapted the classic for speed and to make the laugh lines snap so wickedly hard that they elevate t…
"I get to see gay love in a way I've yearned for most of my life and never believed I would see in a ballet context."
In the current, riveting, too-short Chicago run of this forty-two-year-old Pulitzer-winning play, the young Black infantrymen play on the best baseball team in the U.S. Army.
Hedwig Dances' sequel to Oskar Schlemmer's 1922 avant-garde ballet is fascinating, playful and downright trippy. Figures parade toward the audience like a Kandinsky come to life.