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FRIDAY "Landladies": Landlord Marti and her tenant Christine navigate a complicated relationship in this world premiere. Northlight Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts,…
A working Chicago actor at the age of 95, Mike Nussbaum gets a lot of deserved attention. He's not slowing down, either. America's oldest professional actor is slated to appear as the graved…
Can a play be sympathetic to the plight of the displaced white, working-class workers of America while also holding that same group fully accountable for its defensiveness, myopia and well-d…
The North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie has added a lineup of three plays for June and July. The plays, all coming to the northern suburbs via off-Broadway, were announced T…
"Hands on a Hardbody" opened on Broadway in a crush of shows in the spring of 2013. I remember thinking (a) that the show would never get the attention it needed to survive (b), that it was …
The terrorist murders at the mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand cast an understandable pall Friday night at the opening of Silk Road Rising's latest offering. But Karim Nagi's spirited sol…
The Loop theater presenter Broadway in Chicago announced its upcoming subscription season Monday. New shows headed to Chicago include the national tours of "Once On This Island," the disco-e…
As the story of a night of Chicago theater, this one's got everything: Heroics, villains, wrestling, cheap drinks and an audience that won't give up on the players. Last weekend on Lincoln A…
Chatting with a friend in another row Wednesday night, I inadvertently blocked the aisle of the James M. Nederlander Theatre, briefly impeding a heavyset man heading to his seat for "A Bronx…
"Pride & Joy " The Marvin Gaye Musical" is coming to the Chicago Theatre in June for nearly a week's worth of performances. "Pride & Joy" is described as a jukebox musical about the …
SATURDAY "Herland": A young high-school grad helps her neighbor create a D.I.Y. retirement home in her garage. Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.; 773-728-7529 and www.redtwist.org SU…
"I'm with the musicians," said Riccardo Muti on Tuesday, delighting the striking musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, for whom he was offering unequivocal support. Wait a minute. Isn…
The Pivot Arts Festival in Chicago's Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods has announced its lineup of music, theater and dance for this summer's fest, running May 31 to June 9 in various venue…
The Porchlight Music Theatre of Chicago has announced its 25th anniversary season, kicking off with Hollis Resnik in "Sunset Boulevard" and concluding with the local premiere of "Freaky Frid…
Got a bachelorette party in your near future? Planning a girls' (or boys') night out? Looking for a full-throated, multi-generational, warm-spirited night on the town? "The Choir of Men," no…
I kept thinking Monday night that it is mere happenstance " likely combined with some clear-eyed life choices " that you can find Kelli Harrington, a name unknown to most Chicagoans, perform…
Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri " a son of the outer boroughs of New York City, otherwise known as Chazz and now 66 years old " visited Chicago recently to talk about his life, times, and "A Bro…
Exit Michael Jackson. Enter Britney Spears. Moving rapidly, Broadway in Chicago has filled the spot vacated by the cancellation of the pre-Broadway tryout of "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"…
Dancer, choreographer and vocalist Jasmin Williams is moving. The 23-year-old Chicago native has lived in Los Angeles, New York and various places in Europe. Hyde Park is home, but she's fou…
Longtime patrons of Black Ensemble Theater are probably familiar with the post-curtain speech sometimes heard there. "Going to Black Ensemble is just like going to church " because there's a…
Summer is coming: The first draft of a calendar of events for Millennium Park's 2019 summer season is out now, including concerts, festivals and the Year of Chicago Theatre. The announcement…
Coming this spring, hard on the heels of opening day at Wrigley Field: A new Chicago-born stage musical, officially encouraged and approved by the Chicago Cubs and produced by a former state…
What do working-class Irishmen in the final throes of middle age talk about in the pub? You know, with a good pal. The kind with whom you can let down your guard. If your answer to that ques…
It's 1992. A young white man named Steve meets a young African-American man named Eric on an empty D subway train in New York City. The white man is going home to his mother in Riverdale; th…
The cornerstone of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 60th anniversary season is "Lazarus," the company's first two-act work in its history, created by choreographer-in-residence Rennie Ha…
