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Saturday "Silent No More": Featuring performances by 10 cast members, the one-night show explores the experiences of growing up with hearing loss and concludes with a Q&A with cast and audie…
On Monday, the Factory Theater announced the lineup of its 2018-19 season. The Roger Parks-ensemble will mark its 26th anniversary, with recently appointed co-artistic Directors Manny Tamayo…
On Friday, the New Colony announced casting for its world premiere of "Fun Harmless Warmachine," which plummets into the trenches of online masculinity cults. Under the direction of James Fl…
On Friday, First Floor Theater announced the lineup for its seventh season, featuring a world premiere and two Chicago premieres. Kicking things off in the fall will be the city's premiere o…
Restaurant criticism is different from other forms of cultural reviewing. For one thing, we all have to eat every day. For another, we have an inevitably intimate relationship with anything …
Samantha Barks, the truly formidable young star of "Pretty Woman: The Musical," achieves something close to a miracle at the Nederlander Theatre. With the help of her savvy director, Jerry M…
On Thursday, the Gift Theatre announced Jennifer Glasse as its newest ensemble member. Glasse has previously appeared in the Gift's world premieres of "Hang Man" and "A Life Extra Ordinary."…
Saturday "Nightmares and Nightcaps: The Stories of John Collier": Throughout the first half of the 20th century, British expatriate John Collier penned humorous stories about the bizarre and…
On Wednesday, First Folio Theatre announced casting for "The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: a Love Story." Leading the audience from room to room of Mayslake Hall, Poe and his wife Virginia div…
Definition Theatre Company announced that it will open its 2018-2019 season with "No Child…" by Nilaja Sun. Under the direction of Chika Ike, the play is named after the No Child Left Behi…
Fifteen years after opening on Broadway, and four years after it first played at the Mercury Theater on the Southport Corridor, "Avenue Q" is a long-running hit all over again in Chicago. "W…
Barrel of Monkeys has announced the lineup for the 2018-19 season of "That's Weird, Grandma," its sketch show written by kids and performed by adults. BOM teaching artists guide elementary s…
The last time I saw a bona fide warm-up comedy act at a musical was back in the 1990s at the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre in Palm Beach, Fla. ("Are you ready for 'La Cage Aux Folles'? Did you h…
Print ain't dead " and, at Jackalope Theatre Company, it's coming to life. This month, the ensemble will stage its ninth annual "Living Newspaper" festival, inspired by the 1930's Living New…
On Monday, Harold Washington College announced that it has partnered with the Joffrey Ballet to offer an Associate in Arts in Dance from City Colleges of Chicago's Loop campus. Launching thi…
On Monday, Theatre at the Center announced casting for its fall production of "Ghost the Musical." Based on the romance-thriller that earned Whoopi Goldberg an Oscar, Garrett Lutz will play …
A former Weather Girl is to headline the cast of "WaistWatchers the Musical," which is coming to Chicago's Royal George Theatre this September for an open run. Martha Wash " one half of the …
On Monday, Goodman Theatre announced the roster of shows for its "New Stages" fest, an annual staging of new shows from both established and emerging playwrights. Seven shows comprise this y…
Director Ron OJ Parson's staging of Athol Fugard's "Blood Knot" caused a stir earlier this summer at Wisconsin's American Players Theatre due to the casting of a white actor in the role of a…
On Saturday, the dance community will gather for "Dance for Life," a must-see annual staple on Chicago's summer dance calendar. If you're interested in dance, "Dance for Life" is a great all…
On Monday, Marriott Theatre announced casting for its revival of "Sweet Charity," playing this fall. Directed by Ryan T. Nelson and choreographed by Alex Sanchez, the show will feature Anne …
Leland Legends may not have turned enough of a profit to keep its doors open the last couple of years, but the now-shuttered downtown Aurora restaurant has served up plenty of controversy la…
On Friday, Strawdog Theatre Company announced casting for its world premiere of "Masque Macabre," an immersive show in which guests travel between rooms to follow stories of murder and reven…
Chicago's Amy Morton will direct an all-women "Glengarry Glen Ross" on Broadway, the Tribune reported late Thursday. Morton, of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble, has acted a number of times …
ConFest, the National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival, hits Chicago August 13-18. Now in its 6th year and operating under the theme of "Revolutionary Acts," the fest will offe…
