The Goodman Theatre said Friday that the planned performances at Indian Boundary Park (Friday) and Portage Park (Saturday) this weekend of "Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!," a touring outdoor…
The artistic leader of Chicago's Teatro Vista company is stepping down and says he hopes to return to acting.
The streamed British production of "Romantics Anonymous," directed by Emma Rice, is presented for Chicagoans by Chicago Shakespeare Theater. It is what people used to call a whimsical musica…
The pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests seems to have brought arts organizations to a moment of reckoning.
The Equity musical house just across the state line in Munster, Ind., is in trouble, with no shows planned on its calendar.
The circus being the circus, these performers always find a way to go on with the show. Chicago's Midnight Circus tours city parks this fall.
"Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!" by the Goodman Theatre is Cheryl L. West's play about the civil rights activist, starring E. Faye Butler in a tour of Chicago parks.
Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance presents Destinos al Aire at ChiTown Movies
Destinos al Aire offered a drive-in celebration of artistic resilience.
Already Chicago theaters are planning virtual holiday productions in place of their usual cash cows like "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
The Big Ten is back in business this week, even as theaters remain shut and schooling remains on your screen. That exposes a whole lot of double-thinking.
In a pandemic-era first, "Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak On It!" brings a story about civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer out to the neighborhoods. Live, with music.
Chicago theater's Jeff Awards on Tuesday announced the nominees for the 52nd annual awards for Equity theaters.
As Samuel Beckett said, we must go on, and as Tony Kushner said, the world spins forward. These two playwrights weren't talking about the current moment, but they might have been. In this mo…
When audiences return, will COVID redesigns make Chicago's theaters look different? What is Steppenwolf doing with its new theater-in-the-round? Theaters big and small have some answers.
Its 43rd season will be composed of online presentations, the virtual presentations of new work by five choreographers.
It's tough to laugh right now, and it's essential to laugh right now. But how and at what? Zanies in Chicago takes steps to reopen, and I'm reminded of advice from Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and…
Online shows will also include "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblin," a holiday favorite.
"Incidental Moments of the Day: The Apple Family: Life on Zoom" is free to watch, starring Steppenwolf's Sally Murphy in a quiet story worth watching.
The core asset of Ayad Akhtar's "Homeland Elegies," his latest deeply moving autobiographical novel, is the complexity of its thinking, its innate understanding that seeing the absurdity of …
The longtime chief theater critic of the New York Times announced Thursday that he is stepping down.
When the pandemic forced all of live Chicago theater onto a screen, the Neos got it done. Next up for the small but thriving North Side company is "45 Plays for America's First Ladies."
Chicago's grand old hotel has roots in the Chicago arts that run deep. Now it's in financial trouble. Lose the Palmer and we lose part of Chicago.
My picks for the best bets for Chicago theater are a blend of virtual and live, outdoor experiences.
The stage program at the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced two virtual programs for the fall, one of which involves an audience doing their own at-home performance.