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In a career that spanned seven decades, Avian appeared in, staged, produced, directed or designed the dances for dozens of Broadway hits -- his resume reads like a history of musical theater…
We have to be spontaneous and organic, letting Chicago artists and street festivals lead the way, and DCASE and the city must with the plans. And soon.
Even after the pandemic has passed and Chicago comedy theaters are back to doing live shows, the popular ComedySportz chain wants to keeps its successful e-shows running.
"Boléro" will be streamed by the company in a world premiere Feb. 12, the first Joffrey performance since the pandemic.
This new show, livestreamed from Scotland, is on the cutting edge of translating old-school magic into our new online worlds. Worlds where ostensibly we're all connected.
Part of the reason some voters got the wrong sense of who was winning and losing on Election Night may have been in the way TV networks reported votes as if they were sports results.
Don't miss "A Lady's Facade," "Containment" and "These Glass Lives" as the winners of Pegasus Theatre's 34th annual Young Playwrights Festival.
The Scottish illusionist has a new kind of livestreamed show, and has figured out how to project an audience on the walls of his childhood home.
"Love" may be too strong, but Abi Sanchez, Calvin Evans, Jeanie Doogan, Alex Kumin and Pat McGann share what they've learned, and changed, in doing livestreamed shows online during the pande…
Sidelined 'Mean Girls' musical won't reopen on Broadway
In the final days of 2020, the COVID-19 virus revealed the same disrespect for the calendar as it had previously shown for national boundaries, political affiliations and state lines.
The Paramount Theatre in Aurora is know for its Broadway musicals. Now it is trying something different, putting new plays and marginalized voices on the stage, first via Zoom.
Only a few people got to see "Lazarus," the musical that was Bowie's last artistic creation. Now a video of the London production will stream on the fifth anniversary of his death.
Amanda Kloots, the window of Nick Cordero, the Broadway star who died from COVID-19 complications in summer 2020, reflected on her "tough" year following her husbands death in an Instagram p…
The Chicago theater on the move has added director Laura Alcalá Baker, actor Debo Balogun and others to its growing ensemble.
Rebecca Luker, the Broadway actor who earned Tony nominations for "Mary Poppins," "The Music Man" and "Show Boat," died on Wednesday in Manhattan, her agent told The New York Times. She was …
Actress E. Faye Butler is our Chicagoan of the Year for Theater
The second entry in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's virtual season, "Wally World" by Isaac Gomez is an audio play set in a big-box store in the bordertown of El Paso, Texas.
Joffrey Ballet gets $3 million in new funding from Abbott Labs
August Wilson's monologues hold a singular place in American theater, as evidenced by the late Chadwick Boseman's devastating performance in the Netflix film of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" an…
The artistic director of a Chicago theater company plans to move on.
The first national tour of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical!," the hit Broadway show based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann movie, now will begin its North American tour in Chicago. That's the good news. …
Ann Reinking, critic Chris Jones argues, choreographed the very soul of the City of Chicago.
The North Side theater known for European plays has taken the first steps of a radical transformation, with plans for both theater and theater artists to relocate to the West Side.
Media personality Dean Richards, 66, said his illness was not serious. He plans to broadcast his Sunday morning WGN radio show from home.
