Once upon a time, a boy and his cronies go to celebrate their first holy communion at a candy shop in town. The boy gets a belly ache and falls ill, while the candy shop comes alive with mag…
Tickets for Teatro ZinZanni's "Love, Chaos, & Dinner" go on sale Friday, with first performances beginning July 18 in the newly opened Cambria Hotel Chicago Loop-Theatre District (32 W. …
Enter the Apollo Theater and there will be a djembe drum on your seat. I speak not of some souvenir percussive takeaway nor of a cheap facsimile of the skin-covered goblet drum. Nope. Every …
The Greenhouse Theater Center has announced the fall 2019 season for its history-filled space at 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. There's a "Sons and Lovers" U.S.…
The movie titles are in for this summer's Millennium Park Summer Film Series: "Black Panther," classics such as "Music Man," 14 movies in all according to the announcement Thursday from DCAS…
What do you do if you're a Chicago storefront theater and want to stage a 1967 play about confessions? Especially now, when accusations and confessions have become, shall we say, topical? Yo…
FRIDAY "Cambodian Rock Band": A play by Lauren Yee with songs by Dengue Fever. A young woman tries to piece together her family history 30 years after her father fled Cambodia. Victory Garde…
Best puppet of the season? "King Kong" on Broadway. Height: 20 feet. Weight: 2,000 pounds. Style: Animatronic ape. Puppeteers: 14. Microprocessors: 16. Designer: Sonny Tilders. Cost: Good ch…
This summer in New York, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner are expected to begin filming their upcoming adaptation of "West Side Story," a remake of the movie that won a fleet of Oscars in 1…
Playwright Ike Holter's extraordinary Rightlynd saga " a multi-part dramatic odyssey that has taken a lucky few of us over a five-year stretch to the Jackalope Theatre, Victory Gardens, A Re…
Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company will make its first visit to Chicago in 25 years, Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced Tuesday. The RSC will be part of an expansive 2019-20 season on Na…
As word traveled that American Ballet Theatre (ABT) was making a new ballet based on Richard Strauss' "Whipped Cream," I think my reaction was similar to most everyone else: Wait, Strauss wr…
Do we all enjoy an exemption from moral, unselfish behavior when it comes to fighting for our own kids? It might seem we've decided otherwise " look at the righteous scorn heaped upon those …
A gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company," the 9/11-related musical "Come From Away," and a seven-hour gay-themed play, "The Inheritance," each won four Olivier Award…
Many years ago, I had the privilege of watching theater artist and activist Rhodessa Jones work with incarcerated women through her Medea Project in San Francisco. The women's stories, which…
An "Oklahoma!" for an anxious, riven America unable to engage in any kind of collective, cock-eyed optimism anymore, director Daniel Fish's Broadway revival at Circle in the Square Theatre i…
A timeline of Western dance history usually starts in France, with the royal courts of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Russia is a key stakeholder, credited with the classical aesthetic which broug…
The Factory Theater has announced its 2019-2020 season, the 27th for the fun-loving Chicago theater company, which also welcomes Timothy C. Amos as managing director and Anthony Tournis as c…
Joe Foust, a distinguished and versatile Chicago actor, is alone on the stage in "The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey," an 80-minute monologue that begins with a detective from a small…
TimeLine Theatre Company on Thursday announced its 2019-2020 season, the 23rd for the North Side company " and beginning with J.T. Rogers' Tony Award-winning "Oslo" at the Broadway Playhouse…
Weary of these moralistic times? Nostalgic for an emo-loving, streaming-free, pre-social-media-outrage era of acceptable decadence, amoral cinematic narratives and fanciful sensual depravity…
After more than 12 years as artistic director of the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, and an affiliation stretching back three decades, William Osetek said Wednesday that he had resig…
What's your favorite scene in "Jersey Boys"? If you saw the show on Broadway or one of its earlier visits to Chicago, dollars to donuts it's the moment when the horns come out for "Can't Tak…
Few wise heads would choose a candidate for the Mayor of the City of Chicago entirely on the basis of their arts policy " without job growth, high-quality public education, safe streets, str…
Question. What do Harry Potter, the Ramones and the magician Jamie Allan all have in common? Canada. And trash cans. If there's one common denominator to the marketing plan of the young Cana…