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SATURDAY "The Mushroom Cure": Written and performed by Adam Strauss, who recounts his attempt to treat his debilitating OCD with psychedelics. Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.…
A problem with writing dystopian dramas, be they in the theater or on TV, is that the sources of societal anxiety change fast. That is not to say that we get any less anxious overall, merely…
Chicago playwright Spenser Davis, a company member of Broken Nose Theatre, is the winner of the American Theatre Critics Association's 2019 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging…
A white " and putatively liberal " politician with a rising profile finds his career threatened when a story about a racist act he committed in college comes to light. No, it's not the Ralph…
Ordinarily, I wouldn't call William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" particularly timeless " important, obviously, but a bit of a relic. Modern adaptations of the 400-year-old play contextualize its …
In Anna Jordan's "Yen," a British drama first seen at Manchester's awesome Royal Exchange Theatre in 2015 and enough to give nightmares to anyone who lives with young teenagers, two half-bro…
When I first saw the family-oriented musical "Anastasia" on Broadway in 2017, I thought to myself that the show would have to suffer its share of mockery. Replete with a tortured villain cha…
Two prominent Chicago theaters have announced their 2019-20 seasons. Lookingglass Theatre will stage a timely new play about the former Chicago mayor Jane Byrne, while the Goodman Theatre's …
"The Simon & Garfunkel Story" is coming to Chicago in the fall, a touring jukebox musical about the singer-songwriter duo that hails from London's West End. It will be at the Broadway Pl…
The Chicago dance community is losing a power couple, according to separate announcements Thursday by Dance for Life and See Chicago Dance. Dance for Life Chicago executive director Phil Rey…
You catch the 7 Line train from New York's Times Square " a chaotic urban carnival of commerce, musicals, plays, comedy and gawking, technology laying atop the grime of urban history, its li…
The Auditorium Theatre has announced its 2019-20 season in Chicago's Loop, including a visit from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet with "Swan Lake" and a live Chicago Sinfonietta presentation of Jord…
SATURDAY "The Watsons Go to Birmingham " 1963": New adaptation of Christopher Paul Curtis' book about a family of five from Flint, Mich., who heads to Birmingham, Ala., during the civil righ…
Back from spring break? Still got a week of rest ahead? Either way, the sun is shining as I write (not that it's warm or anything) and Chicago theaters are planting bulbs. Let's take a look.…
The ladies in yellow, purple, blue, green, brown, orange, red, women of color all, step out on the stage of the Court Theatre into what feels like an agora, a place of assembly, of confessio…
In Season 3 of NBC's afterlife comedy, "The Good Place," the quartet of humans who've dubbed themselves "The Soul Squad" find out (spoiler alert!) that getting into heaven has become a near-…
"The Music Man" has found its Marian, the librarian. Sutton Foster, the two-time Tony Award winner, will star opposite Hugh Jackman in the upcoming revival of "The Music Man." She will…
Christine, the central character in the world premiere Northlight Theatre play "Landladies," badly needs an apartment. She has a minimum-wage job at a taco joint, a young daughter, a trouble…
A new production of the much-admired Adam Guettel musical "The Light in the Piazza" is coming to Chicago's Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive, next winter, starring the famed opera singer…
Lifeline Theatre has announced its 2019-20 season in Rodgers Park, a season of stories including a classic whodunit, an adaptation of National Book Award winner "Middle Passage" and a world …
Despite twice hosting "Saturday Night Live" " appearances in 2004 and 2015 that surely were helpful to his rise " the President of the United States is no longer a fan of the late-night come…
Dance for Life Chicago on Thursday announces the lineup for its 2019 performance at the Auditorium Theatre, including returning companies Giordano Dance Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago…
Victory Gardens Theater has released its upcoming 2019-20 season, the 45th for the Chicago theater and a lineup including the Chicago premiere of "Tiny Beautiful Things" by Nia Vardalos and …
She tells her mom she's leaving her husband. And her kids. And the boring Midwest. Being older and wiser about life, this Midwest mother immediately senses that her grown-but-troubled daught…
"I thought to myself, 'Oh, wouldn't this be a great place to shoot an album?'" comedian Maria Bamford said Saturday night of the elegant new comedy space at the Den Theatre, where she'd just…
