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What if Banquo had won out over Macbeth? Tim Crouch's play, newly filmed for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, ponders the question.
Oak Park Festival Theatre will begin live performances this July.
The storied Chicago theater is likely being sold to redevelopers. Producers for the shows currently in-house say they have been told to pack up.
Both the Mainstage and e.t.c. Stages will have shows for live audiences, but opening full, new comedy revues will take more time.
Victory Gardens has a new artistic director, part of a new group of Black artistic leaders taking positions in the city, including at Second City and Hubbard Street Dance Company.
The seats are flexible in the Cambria Hotel space. Plus circus people say yes. The show is on track to reopening in June.
Chicago theater company presents digital international Latino theater festival.
The video play by Vivian J.O. Barnes streaming as part of Steppenwolf NOW proves to be well-timed to current events with the British royals.
One year ago as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, DeSantis of Drury Lane had to shut down one show, abandon plans for another and tell a bunch of brides their wedding were off. "I just felt l…
"Encore" by the Goodman Theatre puts videos of past shows online to stream for free, a rare opportunity not to be missed.
"The Queen's Gambit" centers on Beth Harmon, an orphan who discovers she has a preternatural ability to move the pieces around a chess board and dominate the competition.
First show at Chicago Shakes will be "As You Like It" with Beatles music. Drury Lane plans to reopen with "Forever Plaid."
If you were an exhausted actor straight from the dressing room, Petterino's bartender Ed Judge would know your drink and have it waiting.
"Rent" is still as powerful now as it was when it opened on Broadway in 1996.
Pandemic limits for restaurants are relaxed and baseball may have live fans in the stands this summer. But the rules for indoor live entertainment in Illinois remain stuck, and make little s…
Chicago artist Lanise Antoine Shelley takes the lead at the Chicago theater company operating out of the Chopin in Wicker Park.
Are vaccine passports for audience members the quickest way back for the performing arts in Chicago?
The popular annual Canadian theater festival plans shows in outdoor tents, with titles to be announced at a later date.
In the new opera "Taking Up Serpents," set in rural Alabama, a young woman wrestles with her Pentecostal upbringing.
Kamala Sarankam and Jerre Dye's "Taking Up Serpents" is performed by Chicago Opera Theater.
The Joffrey Ballet's new streaming production is free to watch on the company's website, a fine reminder of this Chicago institution, and of the spring that is coming.
The Joffrey Ballet's new "Boléro" is named after the orchestral piece by composer Maurice Ravel and is choreographed by Joffrey artist Yoshihisa Arai.
Actor and typewriter enthusiast Tom Hanks donated an autographed vintage Corona for Shattered Globe Theater's 30th birthday. It was his idea.
Wisconsin's leading theater plans to reopen with "Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song," starring the Chicago actress Alexis J Roston.
With 150,000 tickets sold, "Immersive Van Gogh" is a huge pandemic hit in Chicago and there are lessons here for the future of live entertainment.
