Can the anthropomorphic heroes of Nickelodeon's staggeringly successful "PAW Patrol" rescue the American theater by turning a legion of device-addicted toddlers into future theater patrons? …
Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play is as heartbreaking and hilarious as ever.
The local premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri play is a meditation on identity and community in crisis.
For their tenth anniversary, RE|Dance offers two works that together are a spectral musing on what it means to be civically engaged in today's complex sociopolitical climate.
They are descending on Chicago from around the globe to relate these stories.
Puppetry, dance and performance in January.
Site-specific suffragettes, "All Our August," plays at Trader Joe's: local dramaturgs share their interests and ambitions.
A hit from Humana, the second of three world premieres from Ike Holter and the woman hidden in the history of DNA are just a few of the productions debuting in the first month of the new yea…
Collaboration, in an age when funding for the arts has thinned to a pitiful trickle, turned out to be a font of creative abundance.
It's the story of artists.
If you've got holiday money burning a hole in your pocket, Chicago Shakespeare Theater offers a wondrous outlet.
Returning to its original home at The Neo-Futurarium, The Ruffians' annual holiday tradition remains as anarchic, hilarious, and deeply terrifying as ever.
This Steppenwolf Theatre Company world premiere from local playwright Isaac Gomez serves as a promise to keep alive the true stories upon which this play is based.
Now in its fourth year, this Chicago-originating musical, based on the movie "Elf," moves to Pride Films and Plays, losing none of its willful cheer.
Theo Ubique christens their new home in Evanston with a production that shows just how far they haven't come.
This multidisciplinary performance at the MCA's off-site warehouse space addresses issues of race, opposition, hostility, identity and disappearance, bringing into question what it means to …
This world premiere at Strawdog Theatre Company provides much-needed holiday fare for families of the non-Noel persuasion.
Christopher Wheeldon's well-crafted choreography is framed by theatrical sets which, while minimalistic in design, use projection and lighting to conjure a sense of depth and scale that is b…
Midsommer Flight continues its holiday tradition of staging this Shakespeare classic amidst the flora of the Lincoln Park Conservatory.
Co-founders Kevin Iega Jeff and Gary Abbott have been making and presenting dances that celebrate community.
There are just not enough laughs to sustain the premise of this self-consciously Mormon-centered musical.
Star of Broadway and MCU alike, Danai Gurira ("Eclipsed") turns her talents back to playwriting with this portrait of an intergenerational immigrant family negotiating the expectations of tr…
First person accounts from the Chicago theater community on a subject that has been raised to a level of national discourse well beyond the theater.
Hot, bothered and blue collared, these world premieres and classic mishaps will keep the dawning reality of yet another Midwest winter at bay, at least temporarily.