On Wednesday, Prop Thtr set casting for its world premiere of "2 Unfortunate 2 Travel," a cabaret-style evening of live performances devised from Thomas Nashe's novella "The Unfortunate Trav…
No sooner are seasonal festivities over than Chicago theater opens back up for business. There are scores of winter openings. But here " in alphabetical order " are 10 shows to look forward …
Happy New Year! Here are some of my wishes for 2019. Chicago's officially designated Year of Chicago Theatre has real and lasting impact: What does the Year of Chicago Theatre mean? In essen…
Claire Anne Bataille, founding member of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and director of the Lou Conte Dance Studio, died Sunday morning with her two sons at her side, according to son Isaac So…
"I ain't saying [stuff that's] bad onstage now," comedian, actor and Chicago native DeRay Davis said early on in his 20-minute opening set Saturday night at the 4,250-seat Arie Crown Theater…
This was 2018 in Chicago theater. "Joseph" camped it up in Las Vegas, upsetting family audiences at Drury Lane. Kelly Felthous lit up suburban musical theater. E. Faye Butler finally got to …
Nan Giordano doesn't like the spotlight. She'd rather not give curtain speeches, preferring to greet her guests from Row R at the Harris Theater, across the aisle from R1, a seat adorned wit…
In the 1950s, Chicago pretty much invented improv. Decades later, a wildly innovative Chicago performance group called Manual Cinema imagined another daring idea, one that would combine the …
This is our 2018 edition of Save the Seats, the annual Tribune feature we've run since 2005 with ticket reservations for Tribune readers for New Year's Eve. And yes, New Year's Eve falls on …
Most purveyors of sleight-of-hand trickery are attracted either by the grand illusion, like David Copperfield, or close-up card sharking, like the late Ricky Jay. Jamie Allan, who bills hims…
Isaac Gomez wrote "La Ruta" for the women of Ciudad Juarez. There is work yet to do on this talented 27-year-old writer's new drama with music, which I saw Friday night at Steppenwolf Theatr…
Did you wake up today and realize New Year's Eve is less than two weeks away and you have no plans? Don't panic. Let our annual Save the Seats and Save the Tables promotions save the day. We…
Barack Obama, or Barap Obama? The former U.S. president appears on a reworked song by Lin-Manuel Miranda originally from the Broadway hit "Hamilton." Released Friday, "One Last Time (44 Remi…
On Friday, the Chicago Fringe Festival announced its end after 10 years of avant-garde performances. According to its organizers, the fest has presented 367 shows and returned $231,654 to th…
Amy Schumer is five months pregnant and wants to make sure everyone in the audience knows it. At the top of her show at the Chicago Theatre Thursday night " the second of two sold out nights…
On the day after the Chicago Plan Commission approved renovation plans for the Uptown Theatre, the non-profit TimeLine Theatre Company was to announce Friday it has purchased for itself a ne…
Promethean has cast its remount of "Gross Indecency," with artistic director Brian Pastor at the helm again. Ensemble member Jamie Bragg will reprise her leading role as Oscar Wilde. Also re…
Pride Films and Plays has announced casting for the musical "Southern Comfort." The musical will be directed by JD Caudill, while all five transgender members of the show's "family" of frien…
Critic Chris Jones, editorial assistant KT Hawbaker and Chicago's theaters serve up some holiday realness and drag the newspaper into the new year. (Kasondra Van Treeck/Chicago Tribune)
Critic Chris Jones, editorial assistant KT Hawbaker and Chicago's theaters serve up some holiday realness and drag the newspaper into the new year. (Kasondra Van Treeck/Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Shakespeare Theater said Thursday that is is postponing its planned summer production of a new musical adaptation of the 1971 Disney movie, "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" and will instea…
The New Colony announced casting for its world premiere of "Small World," co-written by Jillian Leff and Joe Lino and directed by Andrew Hobgood. The Disney-driven dark comedy will feature e…
There is only one way to solve the intractable mess known as Brexit and her name is Mary Poppins. And Lin-Manuel Miranda, the un-Trumpian personification of sunny American benevolence, is th…
Black Box Acting has announced a change in ownership. Andrew Cutler, Amanda Fink and Eric Gerard will succeed co-founders Audrey Francis and Laura Hooper. Founded in 2009, Black Box Acting h…
Issues of identity and immigration, borders and belonging, took on harsh and frightening dimensions in the headlines this year. So in looking over the shows that made the biggest impression …