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Veteran actor Joe Foust tactfully navigates the emotional landscape of this powerful one-man show about an extraordinary boy and the town that knew him.
Chicago dance month is packed with performances from companies near and far.
This explosive political drama reflects the all-too-recent past as well as our current political moment.
Part workplace social comedy, part hyperactive fever dream, this world premiere has plenty to sip on.
Chicago is one of the great global centers of dance.
A rock 'n' roll comedy from the preeminent meta scribe of our time, the conclusion of an epic saga, a wild love story, and more opening this month across our city's many stages.
This aesthetically adventurous adaptation follows many tributaries before arriving at its destination.
How to learn to stop worrying and love the lettuce.
Beyond the window, the show is happening.
Anna Jordan's play, receiving its local premiere at Raven, examines toxic masculinity in terms of maternal care and its absence.
This heartfelt musical by Steve Martin and musician Edie Brickell is a marriage of old and new.
This simple but hardly straightforward world premiere finds one woman speaking her truth with honesty and self-reflection.
Annie Dorsen's performance sparks a line of ontological inquiry about the nature of how our digital and corporeal existences dovetail begets more and more questions.
The first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Lynn Nottage's latest play arrives direct from Broadway but its spirit can be found in countless barstools and beer steins ar…
Miranda Davis' new piece about hope in the face of adversity is the latest in a series of commissions intended to push the company's boundaries and explore the intersections of jazz, modern …
In its attempt to break the mold, this world premiere leaves a lot on the table.
Millennial mores take center stage against the backdrop of intragalactic travel in this local premiere by MJ Kaufman.
Ginger Krebs' new hourlong performance shows us a game in which the current winner is the moneyed, narrative-owning powers that be, but the underdog team, though skittish and sustaining dama…
This heartfelt new musical feels like the first signs of spring: hopeful and encouraging.
With a third local production in as many years, this Alan Menken and Howard Ashman musical is showing its age.
This breathless Midwest premiere written by Greg Keller and directed by Wardell Julius Clark is a definitive work from the ascendant theater company.
Hardly seen stateside, this tautly silly production of Erik Satie's play is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Casting the audience into the role of congregants, this production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is more canny than most about what it let's us see.
Directed by Jessica Fisch, this regional premiere evinces just how starved the theater world is for fat-positive representation.
