Inside a nondescript building not far from the Atlanta airport, David Korins, the set designer of "Hamilton," the creative director of "Hamilton: The Exhibition" and a man just finished with…
A Gary Griffin-directed musical (Sondheim's "Into the Woods"), a new "Doll's House," Lydia R. Diamond's "Stick Fly" and a work by Chicago's Manual Cinema are among the six productions planne…
"I just kept waiting for him to talk about it," the guy next to me said after comedian Aziz Ansari's show Tuesday night at the Chicago Theatre " the first of a three-night, four-show run. "I…
American Blues Theater has announced its 2019-20 season, including "Five Presidents" by "West Wing" writer Rick Cleveland, a Nambi E. Kelley world premiere and the Green Day musical "America…
Margaret Trudeau " the mother of one Prime Minister of Canada and the former wife of another " will perform over Mother's Day weekend. But not in Canada. In Chicago. In the UP Comedy Club at…
The first genocide of the 20th century " the German extermination of the Herero people in what is now Namibia " remains largely ignored and untaught, at least in America. Playwright Jackie S…
Picking an aptly frigid day for their official announcement, Disney Theatricals said Tuesday that the Broadway musical "Frozen" is coming to Chicago. The first national tour of the musical w…
In a development likely to reshape, and possibly reignite, the Halsted Street corridor in Lincoln Park and impact the fiscal and artistic fortunes of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company for year…
Despite its misleading, click-baity title, "I Wanna (expletive) Tear You Apart," now at the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, is actually a variously sweet and (mildly) bitter play about roomie fr…
Usually before a comedian takes the stage, the music quiets, the lights dim and " especially if they're a headliner " someone announces them onto the stage. If the comedian has an opening ac…
Tickets for the coming 20th anniversary touring production of "Rent" go on sale next week. According to a Friday announcement from Broadway in Chicago, tickets for the two-week run (May 10-1…
When "Giselle" premiered in Paris in 1841, it was an immediate success, part of a trend revitalizing ballet for everyday socialites by abandoning the Greek legends preferred by the French ar…
Performance artist David Cale's solo memoir play "We're Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time" will have a production at the Public Theater in New York this summer. According to an announcem…
SUNDAY "Mahalia Jackson: Moving Through the Light": A musical tribute to the gospel singer with classics including "Precious Lord," "How Great Thou Art." Black Ensemble Theater, 4450 N. Clar…
Northlight Theatre has announced its five-show, 2019-20 season " the Skokie-based theater company's 45th slate. Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" is the opening attraction. A play about J…
Steppenwolf Theatre's 44th season will feature a new production of Tracy Letts' 1996 drama "Bug," helmed by the Broadway director David Cromer and starring the theater's new ensemble member …
The first time Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performed at the Auditorium Theatre was Feb. 11, 1969. "Mr. Ailey is right up with the times," wrote Tribune critic Thomas Willis of the com…
Saturday "The Ruse of Medusa": The Surrealist play juxtaposes music, text and movement and is considered to be a precursor to Dadaism. Presented by Facility Theatre through April 7 at Chopin…
"Mean Girls," the Broadway musical from last spring adapted from Tina Fey's 2004 teen movie, is coming to Chicago at the end of this year. The first national tour will play the Nederlander T…
After 19 years in an old grocery store next to the Berwyn "L" stop on the Red Line on Chicago's North Side, the 60-seat Steep Theatre Company is going Equity, effective early next season. An…
In her play "The Madres," seen last year at Chicago's Teatro Vista, the fine writer Stephanie Alison Walker wrote about the so-called Dirty War, the U.S.-backed Argentine purge that last fro…
Chaos is dull. That which goes right is poetry," declares Gabriel Syme, the protagonist in G.K. Chesterton's 1908 metaphysical/satirical novel, "The Man Who Was Thursday." But in Bilal Darda…
The first act of God in Kareem Bandealy's "Act(s) of God" is an explosion of unexpected flatulence, as the visiting deity, ensconced in a redundant computer room, makes his (or her) presence…
"I started here in Chicago at Zanies 30 years ago," said stand-up comedian and St. Louis native Kathleen Madigan proudly from the Chicago Theatre stage Saturday night in jeans and a black sh…
"'Mamma Mia!' You're Showing Your Age,'" read the headline on one of my past, ever-wearying reviews of an ABBA-fueled show that is to jukebox cash-cows what eukaryotic single-celled microorg…