With The Refuge Plays, English, Covenant (one of my favorite plays from 2023) and more, Roundabout continues to prove itself as a template for creating the best theater in the country. Th…
The Ford's Theatre Legacy Commissions: A First Look is a free, two-day festival, providing a preview of new plays in development, with opportunities for expanded conversations around the wor…
[Editor's Note: Since reviewing this production at the All For One Festival in New York in 2013, the show has gone on to play over 300 performances in 28 US states and 8 countries. The Other…
For years, moviegoers were able to experience some of the world's most exquisite ballet productions in movie theaters. Then came the pandemic, with its impact on cinemas. At the same time, t…
A HOLE OF SLIME Joben Productions presents The Whole of Time by Romina Paula, an Argentinean playwright and multidisciplinary artist. The play was translated by Jean Graham-Jones, a scholar …
One of Chicago's most thrilling companies, Trap Door Theatre, continues its 30th anniversary season with Bertolt Brecht's boisterous musical Mother Courage and her Children, translated by Er…
MJ WANTS TO BE STARTIN' SOMETHIN' " AND DOES MJ The Musical, now on its first national tour, raises the bar for the bio-musical. It far exceeds a mere revue of Michael Jackson's iconic music…
Stage Wonders: A Global Tour of the Best Theatres That Redefine Showtime SplendorWelcome, theater aficionados, to a front-row seat on our whirlwind tour around the globe, where the curtains …
A GORGEOUS SHOW! An absolutely do-not-miss show at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's, Make Me Gorgeous! is the reworking of several books by Kenneth aka Kate Marlowe, who has been described as one …
Directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne in collaboration with the New Adventures artistic team, this masterful re-telling of Romeo and Juliet, an ageless tale of teenage discovery an…
In Tiny Little Town " a new Musical Comedy reimagining Ukrainian playwright Nikolai Gogol's 19th-century satire The Government Inspector, a small town in 1970s America is thrown into chaos w…
Chicago theatre company, Blue in the Right Way, formed to make provocative, stylized theatre as visual art, presents its inaugural production, Women Beware Women, a queer, feminist version o…
On Jan. 22 & 23, 2024, Amas Musical Theatre will present developmental lab readings of Falling For Make Believe: The Life and Songs of Lorenz Hart, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyri…
Jackalope Theatre Company launches its 16th season February 16, 2024 at its new home in Edgewater's Berger Park with the Chicago premiere of the solo performance The Smuggler by Ronán Noo…
The original cast album of Adam Guettel's new Broadway musical, Days of Wine and Roses, is now digitally available; it will be available on CD in the spring. Craig Lucas wrote the show…
Diabolical comedy, stunning terror, razor-sharp wit and extraordinary, soaring music. A Noise Within presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the dark, brooding, …
For decades, New Yorkers have been making the short trek between New York and Atlantic City New Jersey for some good old-fashioned casino gambling. In the process, they have dumped billions …
There's no doubt why Lynn Nottage's drama Intimate Apparel won five national awards for best play, including the Drama Critics' Circle Award and American Theatre Critics Association's Primus…
David Dean Bottrell returns to Rogue Machine on January 10, 2024 with his latest critically acclaimed, recently off-Broadway solo show, David Dean Bottrell: The Death of Me Yet. An uplifting…
Running invisible endurance feats, the characters of Anton Chekhov expose what Henry David Thoreau called "lives of quiet desperation." When the good doctor's creations, compassionately but …
For one night only on February 18, 2024, Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) will present the next installment of its Broadway Series: The beloved musical Children of Eden. Broadway veterans…
For two generations, a yearly outing to see A Christmas Carol has been a feel-good tradition for San Francisco families. American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) has staged adaptations of t…
A WINTER BIG TOP HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls! Step right up. Come one, come all. The Circus is in town. Circus Bella - Full Company (Daisy Rose Coby) Stage and C…
YOU'D BE A FOOL TO MISS THIS FEAST OF FUN The long-playing Midwinter Revels (founded as Christmas Revels in 1971) is a unique mix of professional performance, volunteer talent, and audience …
WHAT THE DICKENS? SCROOGED AGAIN Pretty much everyone knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the lonely miser in 1800s London who is visited by three ghosts (four if you include Marley) urging…