CDC celebrates two decades of making high-energy performances that blend hip hop, contemporary dance and storytelling. "Booms Day" follows the adventures of a young girl and her boombox thro…
A full-time professional barber up until a few years back, but his comedy career took off.
What a delight it is to sit on the grass and watch this talented, diverse troupe of actors perform one of Shakespeare's most popular and accessible comedies.
August stages are filled with famous people, both living and dead.
Summer abounds with free and family-friendly dance.
With a universal appeal, it speaks to "class" as a through line in the bigger American story.
The fiftieth anniversary tour of "Jesus Christ Superstar" takes very seriously the notion that the work belongs to the Passion genre.
At the same time that his comedy was resonating on the South Side, he was picking up paid gigs on the North Side as well.
Well cast and imaginatively staged by adapter/director Kevin Theis, Oak Park Theatre Festival's telling of "The Winter's Tale" is a consistently engaging and occasionally enthralling way to …
Before the two lovers met in person, they knew each other only through letters traded during the final two harrowing years of World War II.
"It's been really moving and important and central to all of us that at the heart of 'The Devil Wears Prada' is a young person trying to figure out how to live."
"Perforated Play" tells the story of three people who find themselves impaled together on the same iron pole due to an unseen accident.
Fields and her ensemble are a superb mix of musicians and entertainers. Fields, a Tony nominee ("The Color Purple") and local favorite, is a commanding contralto with a powerfully sweet rasp…
Madeline Sayet, a Mohegan writer/performer brings her autobiographical one-woman show, "Where We Belong," to the Goodman's intimate Owen Theatre.
Many of our city's theatrical leaders agree that Chicago is at the forefront of defining the future of the American theater.
The "Inside/Out" showcases bring audiences into an intimate setting and allowing artists to share work "at a vulnerable juncture" in the process of creation.
"Antigone" is perhaps the oldest depiction we have of civil disobedience, focusing on the tension between the state and the individual conscience.
In this Lincoln Center production making its long-awaited national tour stopover at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, Eliza is in as much control as Higgins.
madeleine george's modern-day Greek comedy "Hurricane Diane" could not have come at a better time.
Parodic pageantry of buffoonish characters dealing in quirks, quips, double-entendres… maybe even murder.
Among other compelling reasons to see "Choir Boy" is the power and musicianship on songs sung by the young men who play the students in the choir at the Black, Christian Charles R. Drew Scho…
July dance takes place all across the city, indoors and out, on the ground and in the air.
The brilliance of this musical about the family and circle of a self-help guru manifests from so many directions that the show sweeps one magically, whimsically, sometimes tragically, in a w…
An eclectic month of performances culminates with the Broadway-bound "The Devil Wears Prada"
Though "Godspell" was first produced fifty years ago, its lessons could not be more timely. Now is the time to come together in peace and love.