As spinoffs go, "Hamilton: The Exhibition" " a U.S. history showcase derived from a play about a treasury secretary, mounted in a sprawling, spare-no-expense rendering in a sort of airplane …
Forget Jussie Smollett. Kim Foxx, the State's Attorney for Cook County, let Hamlet walk on Thursday night. In a murder trial held before the federal judge Joan Lefkow, the relentless Chicago…
Chicago Children's Theatre has announced its 2019-20 season in the West Loop, including the Chicago premieres of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Me ... Jane: The Dreams & Adventures o…
For an eleventh-hour replacement, Maurice Jones is a darn fine Hamlet. Jones, a Broadway actor, was only cast in the theater's most iconic role in March, following the withdrawal of Raul …
If you've ever watched the sun rise from the seat of a red-eye flight, then you have an idea of what Andrew McNicol's "Yonder Blue" looks and feels like. "Yonder Blue" opens the Joffrey Ball…
Incredibly, the dangerously titled Michael Jackson musical, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," is moving forward in New York. Its creators are using what I'll call the complexity defense. It'…
FRIDAY "Sentimental Journey": Chicago stage veteran Ross Lehman premieres his own solo show with music about his parents. Citadel Theatre, 300 S. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest; 847-735-8554 or …
A new 120-seat theater is coming to the Loop. On Wabash Avenue, right by the Halal Guys and a Taco Bell Cantina, just across the street from the Elephant & Castle pub, will sit The Lion …
In its first full season under artistic director Cody Estle, Raven Theatre scored the most nominations in the 2019 Non-Equity Jeff Awards, with the all-volunteer committee of Chicago theater…
Small towns afraid of dancing and alternative lifestyles (such as … enjoying dancing, I guess) have provided a fair amount of fodder for musicals. "The Prom," the sweet-and-snarky musical …
The most fun you can ever have as a critic is watching a talented scribe take a great leap " in both thematic ambition and theatrical accomplishment. "Cambodian Rock Band," already the winne…
Can the famously smart and creative minds at Hamilton Inc. pull off their biggest gamble yet? With the acclaimed visual designer David Korins spinning the artistic roulette wheel, the brain …
Putting up a standalone exhibition derived from a work of entertainment doesn't happen every day in Chicago. This leaves few points of comparison for the forthcoming "Hamilton: The Exhibitio…
Sept. 1789: Alexander Hamilton is first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, serving until 1795. March 2008: "In the Heights" opens on Broadway, a musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, directed …
Lin-Manuel Miranda " the creator of "Hamilton" " needs no introduction. He talked with the Tribune from New York about his mostly parental role in "Hamilton: The Exhibition." This is an edit…
Joanne B. Freeman is one of the world's foremost experts on Alexander Hamilton. A professor of history and American studies at Yale University, Freeman is the historical advisor for "Hamilto…
My top-five recommendations of where to get a pre- or post-visit bite on an outing to "Hamilton: The Exhibition" on Northerly Island. Del Campo's Taco's on 12th Street Beach: The closest res…
David Korins is best known as a designer of Broadway shows, including, among others, "Dear Evan Hansen," "Passing Strange," "Beetlejuice" and, of course, "Hamilton." But through his New York…
The temporary exhibition opens April 27 on Northerly Island and will travel to other cities after the Chicago engagement, which is expected to last several months.
The moody Dane, known to his friends as "Hamlet," is back in town. In honor of Barbara Gaines' new production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, which stars Maurice Jones, let's take a look bac…
Saturday "Othello": Shakespeare through a nontraditional-casting lens. Babes With Blades Theatre Company at Factory Theater, 1623 Howard St.; www.babeswithblades.org Monday "Language Rooms":…
Kate Fodor set the stakes high in her first play, 2003's "Hannah and Martin," which debuted at TimeLine Theatre (and enjoyed a reprise with them the following season). By putting the thought…
The New York dancers who talked into a tape recorder for the rapacious director Michael Bennett at the Nickolaus Exercise Center on E. 23rd Street in 1974 are now, on average, more than 70 y…
Despite the title " or maybe because of the title " there's a real warmth to "Grinning From Fear to Fear," the new revue from Second City's e.t.c. company and the director, Anneliese Toft, o…
Comedian Tom Segura has a message for anyone offended by his jokes (or, as he put it Saturday night during the second of two sold-out shows at the Chicago Theatre, anyone who tells him, "I w…