It's not like any other musical you are likely to see. Its clever and well-crafted songs are upbeat, life-affirming and move the action forward. The characters, however, inhabit a dark, post…
Most of the evening is devoted to circus-style acts performed to Christmas music.
What makes this show a roaring good time is the high level of detail put into the characterizations of each Girl, each actor has crafted their Girl to perfection.
Black Girls Dance is a project designed to open doors for talented, hard-working, and often overlooked young women of color to pursue dance careers.
Four couples have gathered together for a weekend retreat designed to strengthen their marriages and reset their moral and spiritual compasses, under the soothing, cliché-laden guidance of …
Northlight speculates how the beloved characters in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" spend Christmastime, 1815.
Coming in to the stage space at the Chopin Theatre this year, it feels like a retro holiday living room, complete with illuminated 1940s-style Christmas trees.
Equal parts imaginative holiday magic, Dickensian gothic style, and honest-to-goodness humanity.
Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona were inspiration for the two prisoners serving decade-long sentences, arrested for performing radical works to interracial audiences during Apartheid.
If you've had enough holiday theater already, here are five shows that are not about Christmas.
Dance reaches new audiences, and sometimes new heights, during the holidays.
Lookingglass Theatre's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," which first opened to glowing reviews in 2018, has become a Chicago holiday theater tradition, along with "The Christmas Carol" at the Goo…
Love, family, and hope are the hallmarks of any great holiday season, and "The Sound of Music" has all three qualities in abundance.
Ray Cooney's 1987 British farce, offers unredeemed silliness of the slamming-door and double-take variety. More of a live-action cartoon than a play, it will appeal mainly to those who favor…
The show is everything you'd imagine for a staged version of Buddy the Elf's coming-of-age story. You can practically taste the gooey gumdrop goodness from any seat in the house, even if you…
In the case of Disney's "The Lion King," designer/director Julie Taymor's revolutionary stage production continues to have a life of its own across a twenty-five-year existence.
The work explores the shifting morality"most of it horrifyingly immoral"that overcomes nations, young adults and abandoned children in wartime.
An original play written in the Elizabethan style…a marriage of Shakespearean tropes with a modern twist, creating something "entirely fresh, and unapologetically non-conforming."
A clever and whimsical take on the story of a Crusades-era count, who uses the opening of men off to war to woo a countess. The disguises and means to which he will go and the hijinks that e…
"Trouble" is a backstage work set during the rehearsal period for a new and controversial race-themed play, written by a white man, that's set to open on Broadway.
Lyric Opera is performing Verdi's longest and most complex opera.
The show affords a fine introduction to what The Conspirators call "The Style," the group's robotically jerky, audience-facing, hyperbolic acting method that stirs together Chinese opera, Ge…
A perfectly executed production of Christopher Demos-Brown's powerful "American Son."
"It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster," said novelist Christopher Buckley. "And I've tried."
What happens when you present "Rent" as a standard piece of musical theater rather than the "rock opera" its late creator Jonathan Larson intended?