The producer of "Showboat" and "Ragtime" and also a convicted felon is coming back to Chicago with a new show, "Paradise Square." It's a big bet on COVID-19 recovery.
A new show, "Breathe," claims to be the first COVID-19 musical. But where are the seniors who suffered the most?
The Paramount Theatre in Aurora has set a reopening date " it will be back in front of live audiences in August and the welcoming show on its stages will be the postponed "Kinky Boots."
Adam Rapp's terrific play is about a Yale professor and her relationship with a freshman student, starring Mary Beth Fisher and John Drea, directed by Robert Falls.
Back in front of live audiences, the cast has a new show in Chicago. It's a very tentative return but welcome nonetheless.
Here's a COVID-19 recovery policy I hope sticks around: tickets that are both changeable and refundable.
When it came to defiant artistic visions, Helmut Jahn, Mark Rothko and Stephen Sondheim had a whole lot in common.
Directing a new production of the play "The Sound Inside," Goodman Theatre's artistic director Robert Falls takes in the empty Owen Theatre in a recent rehearsal with actor Mary Beth Fisher.
"The Sound Inside," directed by artistic director Robert Falls, is part of the Goodman's "Live" stream series where three plays will be performed live inside the theater and streamed in real…
As Broadway's biggest hits, they're usually competitors, but they've jointly announced a grand reopening of New York theater next September. Get your tickets now.
The dinner-and-circus show Teatro ZinZanni is likely to be the first show back in Chicago's theater district when it reopens July 8.
Millennium Park will be full of music and dance this summer, performances are coming back to theaters and venues in Chicago on Broadway. The arts recovery is happening, and fast.
Broadway is coming back on Sept. 14., with its historic theaters selling tickets to their full capacity. Advance tickets are to go on sale Thursday.
The tennis is only suggested on stage at Writers Theatre in this streaming play. But tennis fans won't look away for a second as an aging champ battles a younger opponent, and time.
Kristin Chenoweth, Laura Benanti, Sierra Boggess, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Santino Fontana, Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, Norm Lewis, Kelli O'Hara and Sally Wilfert will perform in a …
Streaming ballet by Joffrey rehearsal director Nicolas Blanc is set to music by Italian composer Ezio Bosso, from which it borrows its title. It's well timed for our current moment.
The artistic leader of Steppenwolf and the director of "August: Osage County" is stepping down from her post effective at the end of August.
It's been so long, we've almost forgotten what a live show can be like. Up in Wisconsin, "First Lady of Song: Alexis Roston sings Ella Fitzgerald" takes that first step back into a theater.
A filmed version of the popular Broadway musical "Come From Away" will debut on Apple TV Plus.
New president Jeffrey P. Haydon and his staff have come up with an ambitious plan to present music outside in Highland Park this summer. Ravinia has been much missed.
The Joffrey Ballet's "Under the Trees' Voices" will have its world premiere via streaming, choreography by Nicolas Blanc.
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced its upcoming 2021-22 season in its new theater campus on Halsted Street.
The Grammy-nominated leader of Florence + The Machine is supplying the lyrics and co-writing music for a stage musical adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," it was announced Wednesday. No cast o…
Assuming the Chicago theater community puts its focus on its audience, live shows are about to come roaring back.
The work was created by Joffrey artist Nicolas Blanc with both cameras and possible future live audiences in mind.