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The magical adaptation from the "Ring" cycle is unlike anything you've seen before, with scenes and music in an automobile processional.
Lately, those critical of Broadway theater say it compromises art and hurts artists. Karen Olivo quit the cast of "Moulin Rouge!" But consider this ...
When John Kramer first tended bar at Second City in 1981, the co-founder Bernie Sahlins signed every check himself. Kramer says he won't set foot in the theater again.
The theater is celebrating Shakespeare's birthday with a video Friday and inviting the Chicago rapper.
Ambitious and "unprecedented," the new Arts 77 plan promises millions to fund arts recovery in Chicago.
The Goodman Theatre said Monday that it will join with a video production company and create three new productions in coming weeks, including "The Sound Inside" in its first live production …
The move comes more than a week after The Hollywood Reporter's cover story on Rudin contained accounts of the producing heavyweight throwing glass bowls, staples and baked potatoes at former…
If you're looking to get out and see a live show, may we suggest Chicago's comedy clubs.
The election in Chicago follows similar union victories at Second City theaters in Hollywood, Calif. and Toronto, Ontario.
Recent news that live theater will once again fill the Kennedy Center was greeted with suspicion on social media. How to heal this divide, between politics and the safety afforded by vaccine…
Alexis J Roston will host the latest edition of the popular series that tackles a particular year and Broadway season, with songs sung by a cast of new faces and up-and-coming talent.
This last week was a start reminder that the performing arts, when they do return to the stage in Chicago, need to address the fears and tensions we all feel this spring.
The longtime husband of Queen Elizabeth II died Friday at the age of 99. But he once looked a schoolboy at Bury Grammar School in the eye, and the boy has not forgotten.
Pivot Arts on Friday announces the lineup for its ninth annual Pivot Arts Festival. Titled "Reimagining Utopia," it will be May 21 to June 6, 2021 at indoor and outdoor performance spaces.
Our theater and dance companies are nearly ready to rush back to Chicago stages. There won't be enough stages to go around. Here's a way to look elsewhere.
Beginning with a musical about Green Bay Packers fandom and including a Beatles-Shakespeare mashup also bound for Chicago, the Milwaukee Repertory Theater has posted its upcoming 2021-22 sea…
The Mercury didn't stay closed for long. It's coming back to life with a new artistic director, Christopher Chase Carter, as well as a new restaurant and plans for the cabaret space.
In Shakespeare's play, a poet on the sidelines gets torn to pieces by the mob. Tim Crouch's piece, now streaming from Chicago Shakespeare Theater, brings him back to debate artistic respons…
While Broadway remains closed, so does the door on Armie Hammer's career.In light of an LAPD investigation and sexual assault allegations -- which Hammer strongly denies -- the actor has dep…
Writing team Bob Druker and Steve Dawson have created a new musical with messages about mental health, to be released as a 6-episode podcast soon.
The COVID-19 recovery has been a rollercoaster, with both the promise of vaccines and dangers of new cases in the headlines in recent days. Chicago needs careful thinking for this summer.
Stage 773, a longtime anchor of the Belmont Avenue theater district in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, will be rebuilt as a single theater with an immersive audience experience.
In an unprecedented move, a live stage recording of "Diana" is coming to Netflix on Oct. 1, two months before preview performances are expected to resume on Dec. 1 at the Longacre Theatre.
The series kicks off Thursday with "The Thanksgiving Play" by Larissa FastHorse, directed by Leigh Silverman starring Reeves, Bobby Cannavale, Heidi Schreck and Alia Shawkat.
Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament will reopen Chicago castle doors next month.
