On Thursday, Timeline Theatre Company announced that it will open its 2019-20 season with the Midwest premiere of J.T. Rogers' Tony Award-winning play "Oslo." "We are thrilled to further our…
Hidden away in boxes and barns " or merely hanging in sumptuous plain sight " the gorgeous chandeliers and fixtures of the Uptown Theatre have been vacationing these past few years in Barrin…
Griffin Theatre is no longer planning to move into a former Chicago police station at 1940 W. Foster Ave., said Ald. Pat O'Connor (40th) Wednesday in a note to neighborhood residents. Griffi…
The longtime Chicago actor Michael Shannon will star alongside Audra McDonald in a Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's famous two-hander, "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune," it was…
A major new musical about Michael Jackson " set on the cusp of the iconic but controversial singer's "Dangerous World Tour" and dealing more fully with his complex legacy than previous endea…
Broadway luminaries will gather at 24 W. Randolph St. in Chicago on Feb. 8 to celebrate the renaming of a theater, currently known as the Oriental, after one of their own " James M. Nederlan…
Long before "Scream" sent up the teen slasher genre, there was the "Evil Dead" trilogy. Director Sam Raimi's low-budget homage/spoof series blended H.P. Lovecraft's mythos about the Necronom…
"Djembe! The Show," which makes its U.S. debut at Chicago's Apollo Theater, announced its official cast and run dates on Tuesday, amending the show's previously announced schedule. Conceived…
It's seven o'clock on a Friday night and the WinTrust Bank on Damen and Melrose is closed. The doors are locked and the lights are mostly off. Inside the bank there's movement. In the dim li…
Now 37 years old, Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" is not only one of the funniest English-language farces of the 20th century but far and away the best comedy ever written about the perils of p…
"Thanks for coming," comedian Michelle Wolf said, taking the stage for the first of two sold-out shows at Pilsen's Thalia Hall on an especially cold and snowy Saturday night. "I almost didn'…
On Friday, Firebrand Theatre announced full casting for its Chicago premiere of "Queen of the Mist," directed by Elizabeth Margolius with music direction by Charlotte Rivard-Hoster. The prod…
Everyone is named Jones in Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses," which I last saw on Broadway in 2014 in a production starring Michael C. Hall, Marisa Tomei, Tracy Letts and Toni Collette and …
On Friday, full casting was announced for the Artistic Home's February production of "Requiem for a Heavyweight," a drama about a punch-drunk fighter long past his prime. Ensemble member and…
Saturday "Photograph 51": History may well remember the work of Watson and Crick that shaped biology, but it was British chemist Rosalind Franklin who provided the key to the double helix DN…
On Friday, Hell in a Handbag Productions announced casting for its revival of "Poseidon! An Upside Down Musical," a parody of classic 1972 film, The Poseidon Adventure. The production will f…
"I just don't feel gay anymore," says one of the central characters in "Dada Woof Papa Hot," a play by Peter Parnell with a terrible title but an honest desire to probe a particular time of …
"Cardboard Piano," the current show at the TimeLine Theatre, begins with a carefully planned sexual encounter between two teenagers in a church. On New Year's Eve. Such a locale for a rendez…
Friday "Evil Dead: the Musical": A group of college kids go to a cabin in the woods for spring break. Through Feb. 16 at Pride Arts Center " The Broadway, 4139 N. Broadway; www.blackbuttoney…
When you think of Chicago and its relation to puppets " on the very off-chance you ever do this " what do you think of? The traveling Puppet Bike that's played local street corners for years…
On Wednesday, Strawdog Theatre Company announced the appointment of Leda Hoffmann as the company's new artistic director and Charlotte Thomas as its new managing director. Hoffmann succeeds …
One day before "Hamilton" opened on Jan. 11, an openly gay rapper and progressive activist named Kevin Fret was killed as he rode through San Juan. CNN reported that Fret's death was part of…
On an October evening a small crowd of theater-goers get to meet Christopher Boone, the central character of the play, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" at Steppenwolf Thea…
Die young and there's a fuss. Die at 97 and, even when you've enjoyed an iconic showbusiness career, you've likely to have been forgotten. Not Carol Channing. Even though her final tour as D…
The arrogant, self-loathing theater critic " is there another kind? " at the heart " if he had one " of Conor McPherson's "St. Nicholas" is a man of opinions. Strongly held views are de rige…