The year started with a flurry of promising shows, with a suburban "Grease," Steppenwolf's "Bug" and the Goodman's "Graveyard Shift" among the standouts. Then the pandemic came and everythin…
Free Street Theater to open free market in Back of the Yards
It's a virtual "Chris Jones recommends" ... Here are some seasonal Chicago attractions to support your local theater artists.
He was one of three artists from Chicago to win 2021 Creative Capital Awards given to support the creation of new artworks.
Manual Cinema has forged a live, puppet version of 'Christmas Carol,' toned to the traumas of a lonely pandemic Christmas. It begins with Lysol and Zoom.
We all hope to see performers and shows back on stages in the coming year, be they in Chicago or on Broadway. But what happens when artists have all that time away from live audiences?
The Goodman Theatre's seasonal tradition is available for free this December as an audio play. Comforting, entertaining and well worth a listen.
An old brick warehouse on S. Cottage Grove will house both the Congo Square Theatre Company and the new African American Museum of Performing Arts.
A building at 4343 South Cottage Grove Ave. is slated to be the African American Museum of Performing Arts and a theater.
The University of Michigan football team announced Monday that it would pause all of its "in person activity" because of likely positive tests for coronavirus on the team. As the pandemic ha…
In his previous book "Razzle Dazzle," the writer Michael Riedel claims 1980s Broadway saved New York City. In his new sequel, '90s Broadway comes into its own. Shows like "Rent" and "Angels …
Second City said Wednesday that it has hired a new executive producer: Jon Carr, a writer and artistic director with roots in Atlanta improv and theater.
Chicago Children's Theatre's "Walkie Talkies" self-guided podcasts are a new way for families to take a walk, release stress and create happy shared family memories until we can be back toge…
The first of what will be an annual fellowship totaling $27,500 will go to the Chicago playwright Kristiana Rae Colón and, aptly enough, Congo Square.
American Blues is presenting its long-running, old time radio-style show via Zoom this year, performed live each night for the audience from the actors' homes.
Porchlight Music Theatre found young performers you haven't seen before and the historic Studebaker Theater as a venue, then added hits ("Les Miz," "Phantom") and forgotten songs from Broadw…
When Chicago's Newberry Library opened a 2016 exhibition entitled "Civil War to Civil Rights: African American Chicago in the Newberry Collection," the artifacts on display included a sample…
A streaming video of "Eleanor's Merry Christmas Wish " The Musical" is being repackaged and offered to theater audiences all over the country. And it's not the only one. Is this a new era fo…
When Broadway closed down due to the pandemic, Tracy Letts' play "The Minutes" was on the cusp of its opening night.
Set during the pandemic, when some people have been tempted to look up old flames, James Ijames' play stars K. Todd Freeman and Jon Michael Hill and clocks in at just 20 minutes.
We've got to have something for live, downtown holiday entertainment in 2020. Art on theMart video projections are shown nightly through Dec. 30.
Other theaters are in retreat. But Steppenwolf is proud to show off the progress on its interconnected lobbies and intimate new theater-in-the-round in its campus on Halsted Street. Remember…
Chicago actor and director Donterrio Johnson was hired to take over from David Zak. Now he's resigning, saying Zak is still exerting influence on the theater.
The suburban musical house wins for "An American in Paris" and "The Color Purple." Plus Carrie Coon gets an acting trophy for "Bug" at Steppenwolf Theatre.
Taking a walk on a warm Saturday in the North Side and suddenly hearing the sounds of cars horns and cheering. But healing after this election will be no simple process.