The latest from Steppenwolf's educational arm is among the most unflinching and edifying works the company has produced in recent years.
This world premiere is indeed memorable though perhaps not for the reasons its creative team intended.
The iconic company celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with three unique programs featuring classic works and world premieres.
Nearly three hundred years since its premiere, Handel's opera of desire and power gains insight and urgency in this modern staging.
This quixotic adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's novel is both reverent and ridiculous.
A conversation with the ascendant music director of Thompson Street Opera Company.
This biennial festival celebrates dancemakers whose work is grounded in African and African Diasporic forms and provides presentation and professional development opportunities for this hist…
Epic titles follow ambitious work in this month's selection of theater openings.
Oscar Wilde gets a punk rock treatment in this remount of Promethean Theatre Ensemble's 2016 production of Moisés Kaufman's play.
Actor Kareem Bandealy's first foray as a playwright finds him laying the groundwork for an absurdist family comedy only to squander the work with an overcooked metatheatrical twist.
This world premiere from Rebecca Gilman traces the borders and barriers of class in small town America.
English National Ballet returns to Chicago for the first time in over thirty years with a real stunner.
Akram Khan's highly collaborative and unorthodox reimagining of the classic ballet has yielded a modern masterpiece.
One of the premier directors of August Wilson's work, Ron OJ Parson guides this ensemble of large personalities through the narrow gate of the sublime.
This world premiere from Dan Giles brings home the bacon of laughs but leaves audiences hungry for the meat of its subject matter.
By going with the padded Broadway version, rather than the tighter TV or movie screenplay, this production of Rod Serling's noirish melodrama delivers something less than a knockout.
This pristine British import is both an aesthetic curiosity and a clue to an expanded theatrical language beyond kitchen sink realism.
Nothing that sparkles can last in Verdi's tragedy of goodness against the world.
The Comrades step into the dark with this noir-ish thriller from Sarah Ruhl.
Directed by Marti Lyons, this preciselessly abridged tale of ambition and fear embodies the radically modern possibilities of theater.
With artistic director Cody Estle behind the wheel, this production alternates between slamming the gas and mashing the breaks.
Paramount Theatre makes a strong case to take a drive to Aurora with their production of this Tony Award-winning musical comedy.
Dominique Morisseau returns to Chicago with an urgent new play that maps the direct route from education to incarceration for America's youth of color.
Master of the theoretical dramatic exercise, playwright Lucas Hnath's latest takes on the legacy of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and the institution of modern marriage.
Florian Zeller's award-winning 2012 play gets its moving local premiere at Remy Bumppo.