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Friday "California Suite": The walls have eyes in this Neil Simon comedy, as four couples book the same suite of rooms at the Beverly Hills Hotel at different times. Through July 14 at the S…
Ensemble Espanol ends each season " of which there have now been 42 " with "Flamenco Passion," the main attraction of the annual American Spanish Dance & Music Festival at Skokie's North Sho…
Here's something no one anticipated when the Harris Theater for Music and Dance was built in 2003: it would begin to function as a neighborhood venue. Here's something I never anticipated: T…
Jacob Harvey, artistic director of the Greenhouse Theater Center since 2016, is exiting the position, effective on Friday. William Spatz, who owns the producing and presenting operation, loc…
At one point in Monty Cole's uber-contemporary "Hamlet" " at the Gift Theatre in Jefferson Park " the title character turns his back on the audience, picks up a can of red spray paint and go…
On Wednesday, Victory Gardens Theater announced the lineup for this year's Ignition Festival of New Plays, which marks the series' tenth anniversary. The fest's six featured plays will be pr…
On Wednesday, the Joffrey Ballet said that it set an attendance record in 2017-2018, breaking a previous record claimed by the 2016-2017 season. According to the company, total attendance in…
"The Band's Visit" and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" dominated Sunday's Tony Awards. But when will we see these shows " and the other Tony winners " in Chicago? Very little has been of…
Drury Lane Theatre has announced casting for its remount of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The show will be directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, who received a Tony nomination for…
Of the many myths surrounding the building of the Taj Mahal " the wondrous mausoleum in the Indian city of Agra " one of the most persistent is that its creator, the Mughal emperor, Shah Jah…
Saturday "Don't Smoke in Bed": Chimera Ensemble presents a show about interracial couple Richard and Sheryl, who open up about their relationship and efforts to start a family with an unseen…
Steep Theatre Company's shattering production of "Lela & Co.," a haunting play about sex-trafficking and abuse, emerged triumphant at Chicago's non-Equity Jeff Awards Monday night at the Ath…
This weekend, the Hyde Park School of Dance celebrates its 25th anniversary with four performances of "Amira: A Chicago Cinderella Story." This world premiere, a modern, abbreviated take on …
On Monday, Broadway In Chicago announced that two young local actresses have been cast in the role of "Lulu" during the Chicago engagement of "Waitress." Camryn Cavaliero, 5, of Chicago and …
"The Band's Visit," the wry, sad and moving new musical helmed by David Cromer of Skokie " unarguably the leading auteur stage director to emerge from the Chicago theater in a generation" tr…
Best Play "The Children" by Lucy Kirkwood "Farinelli and The King" by Claire van Kampen Winner: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two" by Jack Thorne "Junk" by Ayad Akhtar "L…
Janet Ulrich Brooks will make her Theatre at the Center debut when she takes to the stage as Ann Landers in "The Lady with All the Answers." The show opens on July 15 and will run until Augu…
For risk-loving contemporary dancers, Gaga needs no Lady. It's the name of a technique pioneered by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, artistic director of the Tel Aviv-based Batsheva Dance…
Combining Shakespeare and songcraft is a Broadway tradition " whether it be "Kiss Me, Kate" or "Something Rotten!" But Len Cariou's "Broadway & the Bard" brings the two together in an intima…
Smart horror is turning out to be the piquant flavor of the season in smaller theater offerings. On the heels of Ike Holter's "The Light Fantastic" at Jackalope (running through June 16), Ha…
On Friday, Northlight Theatre announced casting for its 2018-19 season, with a lineup of five shows that includes the music of Nina Simone and the world premiere of a Jane Austen-adaptation.…
"20,000 Leagues Under the Seas" ??? 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, Homeric wand…
On Thursday, First Folio Theatre announced casting for its world premiere of "Shrew'd," a jazz musical that places "The Taming of the Shrew" in 1930's Chicago. The show will open July 14 and…
David Cromer " Skokie-hatched, Columbia College-trained, fed and watered in the Chicago theater, the current odds-on favorite to win the Tony Award on Sunday for best direction of a musical …
Gaga is not a style. Get it right, dilettante. "It's very important for me to stay away from thinking of my work or my research as being a part of a particular style," says Ohad Naharin, cre…
