In Nilo Cruz' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2003 play, cigars symbolize all kinds of things, from capitalist commodity to an older, slower lifestyle to religious burnt offering, like smoke through …
The moving production is author Mahogany L. Browne's adaptation of her verse novel. Sky, is the thoughtful, athletic, resilient character at the center of this young-adult play.
"Fen," a revival of a 1983 Caryl Churchhill play, is about women in the rural lowlands of England. But the distant setting in a somewhat distant time doesn't matter, because the conflicts ar…
"Villette" is a new play based on Charlotte Bronte's final novel.
"Gone with the Wind"'s Hattie McDaniel's artistry and life were complicated, much like history. That's why TimeLine's production suits them so well. We get to imagine what things were like f…
This epic national touring production has a diverse cast that sing their heart out"even the kids. Each and every member of the cast and entire ensemble are always singing, dancing and acting…
Joffrey Ballet's magnificent revival, an adaptation of Tolstoy's vast novel of illicit love among the nobility of Czarist Russia, captures the book's tragic, inexorable power.
"Right To Be Forgotten" by Sharyn Rothstein, directed by Sarah Gitenstein, explores the double-edged sword of liberalism. Where do we draw the line between what can and cannot be said?
In Lucas Hnath's play "The Christians," the popular pastor of a megachurch tries something truly difficult.
The story centers around Phillip taking, not finding, for himself a comely wife.
"When I saw the finished piece, I texted Tre and was like 'are you trying to kill my dancers?'" Yonally says. "It's six minutes of athletic, virtuosic go go go, and it's in five. A not-parti…
A ruminative mashup of classic fairytales reimagined by James Lapine and the late Stephen Sondheim.
If "Lady Day" was just a concert, you would get your money's worth. But it's more than that.
A set of nine love-themed comic vignettes presented in time for Hallmark's and Fannie May's favorite holiday, Valentine's Day.
Toni Stone" by Lydia R. Diamond is about the first professional Black woman baseball player. Nothing about Stone's life is conventional.
"I want people to not be sitting there thinking 'I could have stayed home and read this book or watched this movie.' I just want people to have a good time. It always been sort of tongue in …
A young Andy Warhol hones his artistic vision while working on a tavern sign for a tough-as-nails saloon owner in this Odd Couple origin story of a fable.
Elements of magical realism elevate "Big Fish" from a rote story of father-son tension into a grandiose adventure.
Operatic Baritone Will Liverman wanted to reboot Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" to a contemporary South Side Black barbershop with himself as the barber with a hip-hop soundscape.
In this of-its-time dramedy, three intersectional women of color jump between the past and present day while tossing around quips of political humor amidst serious discussions about race.
This is an inventive and gorgeous retelling of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights."
Brent Askari places Warhol just ahead of the revolution in Iran (then Tehran) in the 1970s to get Polaroids of the Shah's wife for a portrait commission.
Whether you're looking for story ballet or experimental play, dance in February will keep you warm.
Considerations of race, gender and the music of Earth, Wind and Fire make February a fierce month on Chiicago stages.
The setting is updated to post-World War II with hunger as the theme. Sir Andrew Davis is back for his first opera as newly-announced Music Director Emeritus.