Country music singer & songwriter Kacey Musgraves will perform at the Chicago Theatre on January 31, 2019.As per a Rolling Stone report, just days after wrapping up her tour dates openin…
All he cares about is love...and heading back to Broadway! Oscar winner and main-stem alum Cuba Gooding Jr. reprises his recent Broadway turn as smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the awar…
"Blue Man Group" âœâœâœ 1/2 "Blue Man Group" has been playing at Briar Street since 1997, a remarkable run of 20-plus years. There have been only two major overhauls in that time…
Monday "I Call My Brothers": A car bomb rocks Stockholm and leaves the Arab-Swedish Amor on on edge as he tries to live out his quotidian life amid heightened identity politics. Through Feb.…
On Thursday, Raven Theatre announced casting for its Chicago premiere of Anna Jordan's drama "Yen." Elly Green will direct Jesse Aaronson, Tiffany Bedwell, Reed Lancaster and Netta Walker. T…
Winter used to be a rather dormant time for dance, but in 2019 the colder months bring some of the most exciting dance events of the year. Winter is typically a time when touring companies r…
With record-breaking newcomers like To Kill A Mockingbird, Network and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child joining long-running stalwarts including Chicago, Wicked and The Lion King in smashin…
No sooner are seasonal festivities over than Chicago theater opens back up for business. There are scores of winter openings. But here " in alphabetical order " are 10 shows to look forward …
Happy New Year! Here are some of my wishes for 2019. Chicago's officially designated Year of Chicago Theatre has real and lasting impact: What does the Year of Chicago Theatre mean? In essen…
This was 2018 in Chicago theater. "Joseph" camped it up in Las Vegas, upsetting family audiences at Drury Lane. Kelly Felthous lit up suburban musical theater. E. Faye Butler finally got to …
A RUTA WAKENING A play can be a cry for help — against a persistent peril, a former and future danger, a mindset that makes heartbreak. La Ruta, a Steppenwolf Theatre world premiere…
The decline in subscribers is upending the already fragile economics of opera, changing how companies operate and what they program. Lyric now gives a quarter fewer main stage opera performa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 6:36pm on December 21, 2018☆⚑
“Latinx theatre and theatremakers in Chicago are consistently ignored, erased, or misunderstood by both critics at mainstream publications and the city’s one major awards body, t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 1:06pm on December 21, 2018☆⚑
In 1955, Shepherd co-founded Compass Players with Paul Sills, and, as one comedy historian put it, “Without David, no Compass. Without Compass, no Second City.” Which means no No…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54am on December 21, 2018☆⚑
On Friday, the Chicago Fringe Festival announced its end after 10 years of avant-garde performances. According to its organizers, the fest has presented 367 shows and returned $231,654 to th…
Amy Schumer is five months pregnant and wants to make sure everyone in the audience knows it. At the top of her show at the Chicago Theatre Thursday night " the second of two sold out nights…
