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"Wife of a Salesman" is full of cogent points about being a woman that are just as relevant now as they were in the show's 1950s setting.
This is an enjoyable production with a good cast of show voices.
It is a fascinating exploration of lives and a friendship that ends in a tie, pretty much in the state in which it started. At the same time, it is a play about the lives of men.
This is a sumptuous and traditional production of "Tosca" visually with every inch of the cavernous stage filled with a three-dimensional, captivating set.
The long-running, ever-changing show is a cirque du smirque that mixes song, comedy and acrobatics.
"Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is a multi-genre work and the first opera in the Metropolitan Opera in New York's history written by an African-American composer, jazz trumpeter and composer Tere…
Hubbard Street Dance's spring seriesis comprised of two programs running over two weeks. Program A of "RE/CONNECT," was clearly about lifting spirits after a long, dark series of winters.
Written in 1888, the play centers on Ellida, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper who grew up near the open sea.
What Anaïs Mitchell has concocted is something quite remarkable.
"Solaris" takes us on a mind-bending philosophical and spiritual journey, probing into the nature of reality and identity.
The program, choreographed by artistic director Julianna Rubio Slager, is heavily inspired by figures in literature and art.
Billed as a parody of the 1956 film "The Bad Seed," the plot focuses on eleven-year-old Carson who will do whatever it takes ito become the reigning Drag Queen of his private school.
Much like the show's spirit, the cast of this production is an homage to togetherness.
A hilarious ride that imbues subtle touches of humanity.
For all the trouble "Ruined" so powerfully captures, it also gives us the human capacity for tenderness in the face of anarchy and hellish violence.
Local and national companies greet the coming of spring on big and mid-sized stages.
March is such a robust month, we did not even have room for Hades Town, Moulin Rouge and Six at Broadway in Chicago.
The play focuses on Anthony and Rosemary, forty-ish neighbors whose farms and personal histories are deeply enmeshed.
A musically superb, deeply affecting songfest.
The story captures God's chief expectation, that people spend their lives bettering life for all on Earth.
Attendees to "The Light Returns" will move through Unity House, the dramatic entryway to Unity Temple, and onto the stage.
"Sons of Hollywood" tells the story of little-remembered Ramon Novarro, in parallel with that of his close friend and former lover William Haines.
For most people, calling off a wedding is a tragic occasion. But for Hansen, it turned out to be the start of an entirely new phase of her comedy career.
