It's popular to lament the isolation of the digital age. But "The End of TV," the deeply moving show from Manual Cinema now at the Chopin Theatre mainstage for the next few days, is a useful…
Saturday "BLISS (Or Emily Post Is Dead!)": Promethean Theatre presents a show chronicling the hidden struggles of suburban women and girls on the cusp of the radical 1960s. Through Aug. 25 a…
Tackling a musical adaptation of "The Taming of the Shrew" in the nearly 70-year-old footsteps of "Kiss Me, Kate" takes chutzpah. While Cole Porter can rest easy that "Shrew'd!," now onstage…
Working at the Drury Lane, director Marcia Milgrom Dodge treats Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" as if it were a spooky story of scary shadows from the all-American past. Haunting…
Here's what I remember from playing in my high school jazz band for nine months: When improvising with other musicians, say "yes" to what they're offering. Use the song's base rhythm and cho…
What better company at the theater than summer campers? Especially in a show that not only asks you to be up for an adventure but to bring a fairy back to life. (Before noon.) No problem for…
How can it be that not one, but two dances this year are inspired by mushrooms? Now at the Hyde Park Art Center, Erica Mott Productions and Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble present "Mycelial: St…
The Broadway musical based on "The Color Purple" tried out in Atlanta in 2004. Sitting there in Georgia, I admired the zest and accessibility of the score and, in particular, the artful and …
On Wednesday, Chance the Rapper announced that he had purchased a dormant news-and-culture website called Chicagoist from the New York public radio station WNYC. His means of doing so " shar…
"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…
"This is the Plains, a state of mind, right, some spiritual affliction, like the blues" says Barbara, the eldest daughter of the Oklahoma Weston clan in Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County." …
For Brigid Murphy, "Milly's Orchid Show" was never about bringing New York to Chicago " it was about giving Chicago the kind of radical vastness that New York's girth allows. That's why her …
Put away your wallet " you won't have to pay hundreds of dollars to see Bruce Springsteen's Broadway show. Netflix announced Wednesday that it will broadcast The Boss' one-man show on Dec. 1…
Michael Shannon, his acerbic biography in the program at A Red Orchid Theatre informs, is soon to be enshrined in wax at Madame Tussauds near Times Square. A lifetime achievement, for sure, …
On Wednesday, Broken Nose Theatre announced two new leadership appointments. Associate artistic director Elise Marie Davis has been named the company's new artistic director, succeeding foun…
The movement just keeps building: On Wednesday, it was announced that "Haymarket," Underscore's folk musical about the 1886 Chicago battle between cops and labor organizers, will go on an ex…
Ten years ago " shudder " I pointed my Honda toward Munster, Ind., to check out a new musical about one of the Hoosier State's most vaunted citizens: Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne of the Notre …
"Heartbreak Hotel," the biographical Elvis musical from the creator of the Broadway shows "Million Dollar Quartet" and "Baby It's You," begins with a spirited gospel performance in an Africa…
On Tuesday, Broadway In Chicago announced the Chicago premiere of 10-time Tony Award-winner "The Band's Visit." The show will run for a limited two-week engagement at Cadillac Palace Theatre…
Crime, Russia, sexual depravity " before 2016, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was the cultural figure most associated with this triptych, especially because of his novel "Crime and Punishment." On Tuesd…
"Hamilton: The Exhibition," the ambitious, tented attraction that aims to immerse fans of the hit Broadway musical in the life and nonfictional times of its central character, is postponing …
Lifeline Theatre, the venerable and ensemble-based Rogers Park arts institution known for its theatrical adaptations of literary classics, has a new artistic director. It's Ilesa Duncan, the…
"I've taken some hits," observes Stacy Keach, playing Ernest Hemingway in the solo play "Pamplona" at the Goodman Theatre. The venerable, courageous actor might well have been speaking of hi…
On Monday, Theatre at the Center announced the lineup for its 2019 season, with artistic director Linda Fortunato at the helm. The season will kick off with a revival of "Million Dollar Quar…
Friday "The End of TV": Manual Cinema presents a multimedia art-song cycle rooted in the Rust Belt. Through Aug. 15 at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division St.; 773-278-1500 and manualcinema…