Disney Theatrical Productions announced that it will hold open auditions for its current and future productions of the musicals "Aladdin," "Frozen" and "The Lion King" in Chicago From Novemb…
"A Shayna Maidel" âœâœâœâœ Barbara Lebow's 1980s play "A Shayna Maidel" is a much richer work than I ever realized, especially in director Vanessa Stalling's exquisitely acte…
On Wednesday, Pegasus Theatre Chicago announced the authors and plays being presented at the 32nd Young Playwrights Festival at Pegasus's resident home Chicago Dramatists. The lineup include…
Sometimes, kind readers will write to thank me for pointing me toward a show they really liked. Other times, they'll ask me, usually in upper-case, some variation on the theme of: what was I…
On Tuesday, TimeLine Theatre Company set the cast for the Chicago premiere of "Cardboard Piano," Hansol Jung's drama set amidst violent conflict in northern Uganda Mechelle Moe will direct a…
The following is excerpted from "Rise Up!: Broadway and American Society from 'Angels in America' to 'Hamilton.'" The book about theater and social progress is by the Tribune's Chris Jones a…
The Palacio de Bellas Artes is a majestic art nouveau gem in the heart of Mexico City, standing on the edge of the oldest urban green space in the Americas, the Alameda Central. Considered o…
On Monday, Shattered Globe Theatre and Theater Wit announced casting for the Chicago premiere of Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses." It will be directed by Theater Wit artistic director Jere…
Saturday "Frankenstein": In its latest world premiere, Manual Cinema augments the classic story of Frankenstein with Mary Shelley's biography to show the horrors of creation. Through Dec. 2 …
Vanessa Bamber has resigned as executive director of Chicago Dramatists. On Monday, she confirmed her departure in an email to the Tribune, stating that she offered the playwright developmen…
"American Son" is a tense, didactic Broadway play for our age of racially charged mistrust. In its best moments " all of which involve the star Kerry Washington " this work by lawyer-playwri…
For some younger audience members inside the Helen Hayes Theatre, Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song" must seem like a weird relic from another time " a 1982 experience, meaning a trip back to w…
On Thursday, Steppenwolf announced the lineup for their winter 2018-19 LookOut Series, offering a dramatic way to stay warm in the city's dreariest months. The season will begin in December,…
Every great playwright is a Cassandra " willing and able to warn of future disaster, should certain human tendencies go unchecked. But few relished that role with the intensity and complexit…
Pride Films and Plays announced the Chicago premiere of Harvey Fierstein's "Casa Valentina," playing next summer. The director and cast will be set at a later date. Based on real events, "Ca…
On Thursday, Interrobang Theatre Project announced casting for its Chicago premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's drama "I Call My Brother." The show follows a day in the life of an Arab-Swedish…
"A Shayna Maidel" âœâœâœâœ Barbara Lebow's 1980s play "A Shayna Maidel" is a much richer work than I ever realized, especially in director Vanessa Stalling's exquisitely acte…
War! What is it good for? In the case of the Poetry Foundation and Manual Cinema's latest collaboration, it's good for "Three World War I Poems," a nine-minute video that commemorates 100 ye…
On Wednesday, Underscore Theatre Company announced that Laura Stratford will step down as the company's artistic director in March 2019 to focus on her career as a lyricist and librettist. U…
In January 2018, Pew Research Center released the results of a study on women working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs that revealed 50 percent said they had experien…
Those of us who long ago hitched our covered wagons to the talent train that is Calamity West have been waiting for that play. You know, the one that propels her toward what her talent deser…
Chicago magician and performer Neil Tobin's show "Necromancer: Near Death Experience" will have two final Halloween-season performances at Rosehill Cemetery, 5800 N. Ravenswood Ave. The hour…
Despite the title, Bess Wohl's "Small Mouth Sounds" is fundamentally a play about silence. To experience the work at Chicago's A Red Orchid Theatre, where the show opened this past weekend, …
Come March, Berwyn's much-loved 16th Street Theater will no longer have an address on the leafy suburban street from which it took its name. It's moving west to spiffier new digs on Harlem A…
Belarus Free Theatre is best known locally for stunning deconstructions of classics, such as their mind-blowing production of "King Lear" at Chicago Shakespeare in 2016. But the company, whi…