They're calling it "3-1-2," this season, a revamp of the Auditorium Theatre's "Made in Chicago" series, which for several years has provided a platform for local dance companies to perform o…
The performance artist Pope.L is asking a lot of Art Institute audiences these days. His "experimental restaging" of a slavery narrative credited as the oldest surviving African-American pla…
The performance artist Pope.L is asking a lot of Art Institute audiences these days. His "experimental restaging" of a slavery narrative credited as the oldest surviving African-American pla…
William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" takes its name from the coming of the Feast of the Epiphany " probably now best known as the day when you're supposed to take down your holiday decorati…
Yes, hostelry jokes abound in staging "Holiday Inn" at a Marriott. Get them out of your system. I'll wait. This show, now in its regional premiere at Marriott Lincolnshire, is not "White Chr…
What should be the arts policy of the new administration headed by the incoming Democratic governor of the State of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker? You cannot answer that question without also aski…
On Thursday, Pride Films and Plays announced casting for "I Know My Own Heart," penned by by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue and inspired by the secret diaries of Yorkshire gentlewoman A…
"The Last Session" " which I doubt you have seen staged before " is surely the only gospel-infused musical that deals with the AIDS crisis that plagued America in the waning years of the 20t…
Richard Townsend, the Driehaus Museum's new executive director, has vivid memories of his first trip to an art museum. "I was five years old, but I can still see it clearly," he said in a ph…
"We will never," said Cameron Mackintosh, sounding unusually wistful, "be all together doing this again." Mackintosh " often known by the sobriquet "Mister Producer" and the most successful …
On Tuesday, First Floor Theater set casting for its world premiere of Dan Giles' "Mike Pence Sex Dream," directed by artistic director Hutch Pimentel. The cast will feature Collin Quinn Rice…
Friday "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat": The Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice classic tells the Old Testament story of Joseph and his brothers. Through Dec. 23 at Citadel Theat…
The official lineup of the 18th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival has been announced, and its organizers call it the largest fest of its kind. The 2019 line-up will boast 120 shows in 8 …
After 92 years, the name of the Oriental Theatre is going to disappear. Early next year, the venerable, historic venue built in Chicago at 24 W. Randolph St. in 1926 on the site of the Iroqu…
The long-awaited, $75 million restoration of the 93-year-old Uptown Theatre " among the highest profile historic rehabs in the city's history " will begin next summer, Chicago's Community De…
On Monday, Stage 773 announced its acquisition of Li'l Buds Theatre Company, a not-for-profit children's theater organization based in the city. The change will be effective January 1, 2019.…
Chicago Opera Theater opened its 46th season in bold fashion Saturday night, presenting what was billed as the Chicago premiere of Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta," which bowed in 1892. What's more, …
When the stand-up comedian Mo'Nique comes to The Improv this weekend, she will be baring some of her inner flaws. "I have an outline," she said, "but I've never done the same show twice in 3…
In the summer of 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted, weirdly causing a stormy following summer in Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary Godwin was chilling with her lover (and soon to be her…
"Soon it's gonna rain, I can see it. Soon it's gonna rain, I can tell." All right, fine. Those lyrics are from "The Fantasticks" and not "110 in the Shade," the musical version of N. Richard…
Through Saturday at the Dance Center, "Eliki Munda | What Lies Within" has been a decade in the making. Shortly before Vershawn Sanders-Ward formed her Red Clay Dance Company on Chicago's So…
In the most powerful moment in "Bitter Earth," a new two-character play by Harrison David Rivers, we see a young white man berating his African-American lover for what he sees as shameful po…
"It's our birthday!" said Patricia Barretto, president and CEO of the Harris Theater, in her Thursday night curtain speech. It was 15 years to the day since the underground marvel opened its…
Stare hard into the gorgeous eyes of that gigantic gorilla, people: they're like deep emotional pools, transfixing in their moist, needy intensity. If they gave out Tony Awards for the peepe…
On Thursday, Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced the release of a new play resource called "The Mix," a list of new and underproduced plays that feature intersectional casts. The shows are…