Ordinarily, I wouldn't call William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" particularly timeless " important, obviously, but a bit of a relic. Modern adaptations of the 400-year-old play contextualize its …
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When I first saw the family-oriented musical "Anastasia" on Broadway in 2017, I thought to myself that the show would have to suffer its share of mockery. Replete with a tortured villain cha…
A musical version of The Outsiders, based on both S.E. Hinton's groundbreaking 1967 YA novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film version that introduced a generation of young actors who wou…
Chicago Shakespeare Theaterannounces today the Queens of the critically acclaimed new musicalSIX,written byTobyMarlowandLucyMoss, which makes its North American premiere in TheYard at Chicag…
"The Simon & Garfunkel Story" is coming to Chicago in the fall, a touring jukebox musical about the singer-songwriter duo that hails from London's West End. It will be at the Broadway Pl…
Liesl Olson investigates the strange and stirring history of La Guiablesse, an almost entirely lost 18-minute dance work based on French Caribbean folklore, with a white choreographer/star (…
La Guiablesse was imagined by and starring a white woman who choreographed the piece for her city's most talented black dancers.
On a steamy summer evening in 1…
It's been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
Links Hall was originally Link's Hall, named for…
Kerry Reid's top picks for spring theater
Three new shows this season celebrate defiance and derring-do, from the poetic grit of Saul Bellow to the feminist sas…
"If you're doing something associated with puppetry in Chicago, you have to think about Blair."
If anybody knows puppets"like really knows puppets"it's Blair Th…
Midnight Circus and Aloft Circus Arts have created their own intimate version of the big top in the city's lofts and churches.
"We used to have a rhino on Ringl…
"Am I the only Latinx sharing stories right now? Where are the rest of us?"
After the rush of winning the 2013 Moth GrandSlam storytelling competition faded, Li…
The Chicago dance community is losing a power couple, according to separate announcements Thursday by Dance for Life and See Chicago Dance. Dance for Life Chicago executive director Phil Rey…
TODAY'S LOST BOYS Theater takes us places and shows us stuff that we might never freely choose to go or see. Exhibits A-Z areYen, a 2013 visit to Gorki's "lower depths" by British playwright…
In IMPRESSIONS: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago with Ohad Naharin and Crystal Pite, "Between Naharin's famous dynamic range and Pite's striking narrative rhythm, the company had quite a few …
SATURDAY "The Watsons Go to Birmingham " 1963": New adaptation of Christopher Paul Curtis' book about a family of five from Flint, Mich., who heads to Birmingham, Ala., during the civil righ…
Oboist Ashley Ertz started the group 5th Wave Collective especially to perform and promote music written by women. "Since April 2018, the volunteer-based group of more than 115 musicians has…
Christie Brinkleywas a guest on today's episode of 'Live with Kelly and Ryan.' During the interview, Brinkleytalks about returning to 'Chicago' on Broadway and going on tour with the show.
Back from spring break? Still got a week of rest ahead? Either way, the sun is shining as I write (not that it's warm or anything) and Chicago theaters are planting bulbs. Let's take a look.…
