We were all there to make believe. And so, when the first act's showstopper ended with a charming dose of awkwardness, no one at the Saturday matinee of Disney on Ice blinked. "Coco" had sei…
On Thursday, Hell in a Handbag Productions announced its 2019 Season, launching this winter with a revival of "POSEIDON! An Upside Down Musical," an unauthorized musical parody of 1972's "Th…
If they gave out awards for acting with your eyeballs, Matt Crowle would have no competition whatsoever. He can throw 'em back into his head, cross 'em nine ways to Sunday and, in a particul…
Greetings from Hoth or #Chiberia or whatever you want to call this fresh winter mess. With the onslaught of theater closings this week " Broadway in Chicago actually shut down Wednesday's "H…
"Blue Man Group" âœâœâœ 1/2 "Blue Man Group" has been playing at Briar Street since 1997, a remarkable run of 20-plus years. The Blue Men still chomp marshmallows, bang drums and…
"Howard Schultz " more bitter than his coffee," tweeted the TV screenwriter Warren Leight on Wednesday, part of a torrent of social-media abuse, much of it from Hollywood, aimed at the forme…
To watch Ayad Akhtar's "Junk," an exciting, ambitious play about the glorification of hostile takeovers and the human costs of leveraged buyouts, in its 2017 Broadway premiere at New York's …
Cold weather has officially squelched the city's hottest show. Due to extreme weather conditions, the Jan. 30 matinee and evening performances of "Hamilton" in Chicago have been canceled. Do…
You can make a killing in the theater, but not a living, goes the theatrical cliche. The playwright Steven Dietz, whose work never has been seen on Broadway, has achieved precisely the rever…
The ambition inherent in Christina Anderson's heady, poetic and ambitious new play at the Goodman Theatre is right there in its title: "How to Catch Creation." That's quite a challenge. To m…
Tickets are to go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 15 to "Hamilton: The Exhibition," the latest high-profile project involving Lin-Manuel Miranda and the creative team behind the hit Broadway musical…
After three short weeks of sold-out performances, the hit musical "Hamilton" concluded its run Sunday at the Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The production was a much-celebr…
"You Oughta Know" Alanis Morissette is coming to Broadway. The singer-songwriter has allowed songs from her 1995 breakthrough album "Jagged Little Pill" to be used in a new musical and produ…
Look, we know you should stay in on Wednesday. History has its eye on some record-low temps for Chicago, and several institutions have already announced closures due to the anticipated tempe…
Joseph Zettelmaier has become something of a playwright in residence for suburban First Folio. In addition to a trilogy of plays that skillfully reimagined classic horror stories about Frank…
In the worlds of science, journalism, tech, business and politics, hypothesizing is a whole lot sexier than offering proof. Come to think of it " and Anna Ziegler's terrific new play at Cour…
On Monday, the Black Ensemble Theater's founder and CEO Jackie Taylor announced the company's 43rd season, "Legends and Lessons." The season will begin with "Mahalia Jackson: Moving Through …
Life teaches us that the funniest people we know often have been through the most personal trauma. You can see that with professional comedians, of course, and it can lead them into trouble.…
A bit of dazzle for you: Dennis Watkins' show "The Magic Parlour" is reaching a milestone that few shows reach, even fewer one-man shows reach and vanishingly few magic shows reach " his 1,0…
Over the years, Chicago's famous storefront-theater community occasionally has turned the lens upon itself. But in every such case that I recall, these shows have romanticized the struggles …
It was in 2013, with the addition of Stanton Welch's "La Bayadere" and Lar Lubovitch's "Othello" to the repertoire of the Joffrey Ballet, that I began to notice a concerted effort to build t…
"Magic Mike" fans will soon be able to experience the franchise in a whole new way as Broadway-bound "Magic Mike the Musical" comes to Boston this fall. Billed as a prequel to the h…
In 2004, a group of terrorists demanding independence for Chechnya descended upon School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking more than 1,100 people hostage. By the time the so-called Beslan…
Is it too late to get in on the whole "New Year, New Me" shtick? Sure hope not. This week, the Theater Loop rolls out a new approach to Chicago casting announcements. Loyal readers (and thos…
The cure for the wintertime blues is apparently "Million Dollar Quartet." Two theaters in the Chicago area " Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire and Theatre at the Center in Munster, Ind. " are…