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On Friday, About Face Theatre announced casting for its Chicago premiere of "This Bitter Earth" by Harrison David Rivers, with direction by Mikael Burke. "This Bitter Earth" will feature She…
Fifty years ago, the political activist and anarchist Abbie Hoffman, a co-founder of the Yippies, was arrested at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Along with other members…
A neglected play from the 1980s that truly is much richer than I, for one, had ever realized, Barbara Lebow's "A Shayna Maidel" is, on its face, the single-set story of the reconciliation of…
On Thursday, Steep Theatre announced programming for its upcoming 2018-19 season, including a world premiere from Chicago playwright Ike Holter. Kicking things off in the Fall will be the Mi…
"20,000 Leagues Under the Seas" âœâœâœ 1/2 Say "Nemo" and most kids now think of the Disney clown fish. But in 1870, the great Jules Verne imagined Captain Nemo as a misanthropic…
On Thursday, Steppenwolf Theatre Company announced their newest ensemble members: Rajiv Joseph and Karen Rodriguez. Joseph, an Obie Award-winner, is behind "Guards at the Taj", a black comed…
Friday "Big Giant Love": In a solo show, writer and performer Maureen Muldoon explores what happens when a child changes gender. Through Sept. 23 at Madison Street Theatre, 1010 Madison St.,…
On Wednesday, the Neo-Futurists announced the lineup for their 30th season, complete with a run of their flagship show, "The Infinite Wrench." Mainstage Neo-Lab commissions will "Tangles and…
After a whopping 15 years in "The Lion King" " yes, you read that right " the song-and-dance man Kenny Ingram is back in town, playing Big Daddy Brubeck in "Sweet Charity" at the Marriott Th…
On Tuesday, the Chicago Dramatists announced its new "Monday Night Drama" play development series. According to the organization, programming will consist of public readings of plays-in-prog…
On Tuesday, Broadway in Chicago announced the return of Ken Ludwig's "Twas the Night Before Christmas," under the direction of Emerald City Theatre artistic director Jacqueline Stone. The al…
In a turnaround from recent history, Chicago's Goodman Theatre dominated the 2018 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award nominations, with multiple nods for its widely acclaimed productions of Suzan-…
Broadway will dim its lights in honor of Neil Simon. The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, librettist, lyricist, producer, and theatre owner and operator died Sunday…
"Heartbreak Hotel" will close its Chicago run on September 9. Following the story of Elvis Presley in the early years of his career as he and Sam Phillips worked together, the jukebox show s…
How did my parents arrive at the moment of my birth? Some of us seek and find the answer to that question as small children. The rest of us, especially if our folks' trajectories through lif…
A one-man laugh factory known for one-liners delivered through the romantic gauze of memory, and one of the last human connections to the golden age of American comedy, the playwright Neil S…
Legendary playwright Neil Simon died Sunday due to complications from pneumonia at age 91. The "Odd Couple" and "Barefoot in the Park" writer had more than 30 plays mounted on Broad…
With generations of older, devoted playgoers getting grayer, costs of production rising and entertainment competition ever stiffer, North America's temples of Shakespeare are being compelled…
On Friday, Interrobang Theatre Project announced casting for "White Rabbit Red Rabbit," in which a different, individual performer is handed a script for the first time as they hop to the st…
In October, Elaine May will appear on Broadway in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's "The Waverly Gallery," a play about an elderly gallery owner in Greenwich Village. The 86-year-old May " hal…
"Seven leaders of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and their presidential candidate, a pig named Pigasus, were arrested yesterday when they took the pig to the Civic Center plaza," re…
The Steep Theatre on the Far North Side neighborhood of Edgewater has a new cabaret space: The Boxcar. The intimate new venue opens this weekend in 1113 W. Berwyn Ave., an expansion into the…
If you have stared at the roof of a Chicago taxicab over the last few days, you may have been surprised by what you saw: An actual advertisement for the Chicago production of "Hamilton." Unt…
In 1966, Mike Nichols wrote an article in Life magazine. "We had a theater in Chicago in a former Chinese restaurant," he wrote. "One day, a young girl wandered in " because she lived on the…
Now in its 45th season, the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago has grown from a small building in Uptown, isolated from Columbia's main campus, to a four-story facility in the heart of…
