August is rushing right by, which means it's time to squeeze out those last drops of summer before the temperature drops and stuff starts to change color. For theater fans, the Broadway in C…
In theater, it's not uncommon for a production to have several weeks, if not months, of performances. The actors jell with each other and learn more about their characters. The director cont…
Even in this golden age of the unfathomable and illogical tweet, it seemed bizarre. With deft abbreviation skills, a bit of snark and a pragmatic disregard of punctuation, former Arkansas Go…
The Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Amy Morton will direct a Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross." Only there's a difference. All of the characters will be women. The …
On Thursday, Steppenwolf announced the lineup for its fall 2018 "Lookout" series, with a shorter list of performers staging longer engagements. Kicking things off will be Steppenwolf's invol…
"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…
David Cromer is returning to the Broadway stage. The Chicago-honed, Tony Award-winning director will be part of the cast of Kenneth Lonergan's dark comedy "The Waverly Gallery," slated to op…
The Pride Films and Plays production of "Holding the Man," the stage adaptation of a famed 1995 memoir by Timothy Conigrave, is a low-budget affair with barely a set, let alone sophisticated…
On Wednesday, Kokandy Productions announced Allison Hendrix will step down as producing artistic director, a role she has occupied since the company formed in 2010. "Allison has been a great…
On Wednesday, Steppenwolf for Young Adults announced that "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Südwestaf…
On Wednesday, it was announced that the National Theatre's production of "Network" will transfer to Broadway this fall, bringing along Bryan Cranston, best known for "Breaking Bad," in his O…
Benjamin Rauhala, a young musical director in New York, was flying home from Disney World in 2015 when he had a three-word idea: Broadway princess party. Especially if you have a budding one…
On Wednesday, the Side Project announced that it will be temporarily returning to the Rogers Park space it occupied for nine years, presenting a two-play rep this fall. Adam Webster, the com…
"My life is always somewhere between 'How tall is the stage?' and 'How much glitter can you put on a human body?,'" says Erin Kilmurray, the choreographer and creator/director of "The Fly Ho…
On Tuesday, the New Colony announced the lineup for its 2018-19 season, under the new artistic direction of Fin Coe and Stephanie Shum. Following a special run of the company's hit show "The…
On Tuesday, Interrobang Theatre Project announced casting for its 2018-19 season opener, "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" by Edward Albee. While the goat in this story is hardly as much fun as …
"Wait, Wait … Don't Tell Me" is stepping out of the Chase Auditorium in favor of Millennium Park on Thursday for a live show. On this, their 20th anniversary year, host Peter Sagal will be…
On Tuesday, Steep Theatre announced that company member Cindy Marker will replace Kendra Thulin as the titular character in its acclaimed production of "Linda." Thulin's last performance wil…
After a 14-year run and 22 full productions, Chicago's Polarity Ensemble Theatre is calling it quits. In a statement Monday evening, the off-Loop theater company cited increased production c…
Here's something that's hard to believe, but absolutely true: Chicago Shakespeare's current Shakespeare in the Parks tour of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" marks the first time Barbara Gaines h…
On Monday, the Greenhouse Theater Center announced casting for its world premiere of David Cohen's "Truman and the Birth of Israel," directed by Will Rogers. Catherine Dvorak, Tim Kough, Pet…
On Monday, Paramount Theatre announced casting for its new production of "Legally Blonde," which will bend and snap open its upcoming season. Trent Stork will make his Paramount directorial …
If a comedy club were to exist in the technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda " the fictional homeland of Marvel's "Black Panther" " the lineup of comedians put together by produc…
"Can We Trust Facebook and Twitter?" asked a click-baity headline in The Wall Street Journal this week. No, is the obvious answer, given all the evidence of nefarious Russian interference. T…
On Thursday, Drury Lane announced the cast for its remount of "Little Shop of Horrors," the camp-classic musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman all about blood, botany and bad dentistry. U…