Pentatonix's Kirstin Maldonado is set to join Deborah Cox and Norm Lewis in Stephen Schwartz and John Caird's Children of Eden. The musical, which was originally announced to play i…
Tony Award-nominated Tina Fey ("Mean Girls") is set to host "One Night Only: The Best of Broadway," an unforgettable night of music celebrating the incredible and resilient Broadway communit…
The Stephen Schwartz-John Caird musical is aiming for an August 2021 opening at the Arcada Theatre.
When Chicago's Newberry Library opened a 2016 exhibition entitled "Civil War to Civil Rights: African American Chicago in the Newberry Collection," the artifacts on display included a sample…
The musical was filmed in 2018.
A streaming video of "Eleanor's Merry Christmas Wish " The Musical" is being repackaged and offered to theater audiences all over the country. And it's not the only one. Is this a new era fo…
Over 150 alums from the Broadway, West End, and international productions took part in the 24-year anniversary video.
CALLING ALL HUMAN TRASHCANS!! (THAT'S YOU, BY THE WAY) Chicago's amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre is presenting a series of eight episodes adapted from Matei ViÅŸniec's Decomp…
The Tony-winning revival of Chicago opened 24 years ago on Broadway on November 14. Though the razzle-dazzle show is not playing at the Ambassador Theatre due to the ongoing coronavirus pand…
Featuring over 150 performers and musicians, reunited from across the world to present a truly unique, memorable and breath-taking performance of ALL THAT JAZZ from the legendary Kander and …
The Tony-winning production, the longest-running revival ever on Broadway, opened November 14, 1996.
In a recent virtual 92Y talk, screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin discussed musical potential for his most recent project, the courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago Seven.
Steppenwolf Now launches this month with a slate of new film and audio theater works created by members of their legendary ensemble.
Community, inclusion, and diversity form the connective tissue for Nick Pupillo's vision. "My dream was to have a company. My dream was to create a space that wa…
Taking a walk on a warm Saturday in the North Side and suddenly hearing the sounds of cars horns and cheering. But healing after this election will be no simple process.
Second City is trying to rebuild itself after allegations of institutional racism were leveled against the Chicago-based comedy institution following the killing of George Floyd.
Second City is trying to rebuild itself after allegations of institutional racism were leveled against the Chicago-based comedy institution following the killing of George Floyd.
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It's a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Theate…
THE SPIN IS A SPECTACULAR SPARKLING SPUNKY EXPLOIT Satisfying, enriching, entertaining and proof that Chicago contains some of this country's greatest actors and theater, The Spin is writer/…
WHO'S ON FIRST, LADIES? The program states: "Rather than presenting a purely biographical story, this project uses the "honorary" office of First Lady as a lens to examine the roles that wom…
Talking with Teller (of Penn & Teller) about his frequent collaborations with Chicago Shakespeare and what he thinks of magic over Zoom.
While theaters around the United States typically produce The Rocky Horror Picture Show around Halloween, the city of Chicago, Illinois has a different tradition. Starting in 1987, The Annoy…
Aaron Sorkin's film gives the notorious 1968 trial an unmistakable of-the-moment feel.
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