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On Friday, Black Button Eyes Productions announced its 2019-20 Season, featuring two Chicago premiere musicals. The season kicks off this summer with "Ghost Quartet" by Broadway composer Dav…
Director Stephen Daldry's heart-stopping deconstruction of the post-war J.B. Priestley thriller "An Inspector Calls" was, for my money, one of the best English-language productions of the 19…
Mercury Theater announced the cast and creative team of "Little Shop of Horrors," running on the main stage from March 1 through April 28. Under the direction of Walter Stearns, musical dire…
I remember the miracle of watching "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" for the first time. I was sitting on a couch in St. Louis with the person I thought I loved most in the world. He'd just come o…
Art on theMart, the fledgling video projection project on the south facade of the Merchandise Mart, is celebrating Chicago theater with the second round of video art it will display, the org…
Somewhere in the mid-1960s, Lee Radziwill (nee Bouvier), the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy and a socialite officially known as Princess Lee Radziwill following her 1959 marriage to Pr…
The consortium of universities known as the Big Ten has famous football and basketball programs (Go Buckeyes!), and a plethora of other varsity sports from lacrosse to judo to 10-pin bowling…
On Wednesday, the Court Theatre announced its production lineup for 2019-20, marking its 65th season. Things kick off with a staging of August Wilson's "King Hedley," directed by Ron OJ Pars…
Most people don't particularly relish delving into the failures they've experienced in life, especially not in front of a group of strangers. But most people aren't stand-up comics. On any g…
August Wilson believed strongly in leverage " the idea that, in a capitalist economy, we have to be cognizant of our value in the marketplace, understanding that our clout can and will go do…
The word Amazon is never mentioned in Abe Koogler's play "Fulfillment Center" " I suspect Koogler is well aware of the giant retailer's capacity for litigation " but this wry, poignant, plai…
Question: Which Broadway show has the highest audience demand in Chicago right now? "Hamilton" or "Dear Evan Hansen"? Answer: "Dear Evan Hansen," the moody musical about a loving single moth…
Few productions at the Harris Theater have been more highly anticipated than the North American premiere of English National Ballet's "Giselle." Running Feb. 28-Mar. 2, the tour of this firs…
Never mind Ross, Rachel, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler and Monica for a second. Forget The Ophthalmologist, The Ugly Naked Guy, The One With the Monkey, The Ones Where Everyone Got Paid One Million…
Three people were injured after mistaken reports of an active shooter at a San Francisco production of "Hamilton" caused attendees to flee the theater. CNN reported that a woman experienc…
Sometimes, a dance can be greater than the sum of its parts. I came away from "Shyamali: Sprouting Words" " through Saturday at the Dance Center by Minneapolis-based Ananya Dance Theatre " f…
On Friday, Steppenwolf announced the addition of longtime stage manager Malcolm Ewen into its ensemble. He is the first stage manager in Steppenwolf's history to do so. Ewen has worked at th…
"Dear Evan Hansen" is one of those rare Broadway musicals to seep into the consciousness of its target demographic " the first national tour opened at the newly renamed Nederlander Theatre o…
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," the new Broadway musical about the life and work of Michael Jackson, has canceled its Chicago tryout, slated for this fall. A New York spokesman for the sho…
As the overture to composer Ilya Demutsky's glorious score swelled under the baton of Maestro Scott Speck on Wednesday, haze filled the house of the Auditorium Theatre and billowed across a …
Friday "Act(s) of God": As a family gathers for an overdue dinner, a mysterious envelope arrives with astonishing news. Through April 7 at Lookingglass Theatre, 821 N. Michigan Ave.; 312-337…
On Wednesday, the Bayless Family foundation announced the winners of its 2019 "Stepping Stone" grants, along with the funding of theater programming in Millennium Park. The grants " $150,000…
As sleet and snow slashed the air outside on Tuesday night, a theatrical fire blazed onstage at the Den Theatre. In "The Total Bent," the polymath known as Stew, perhaps best known for his s…
So excruciating were the acceptance speeches at Sunday night's Grammy Awards that Trevor Noah compared them to irritating people who wait in line at Chipotle, "get to the front and go, 'uh â…
The world premiere of "Hamilton: the Exhibition," scheduled to debut in Chicago on Northerly Island this spring, has announced a new opening, with its first public admissions now set for Apr…
