URTA will host the Women+ Theatre Forum, bringing together women+ theatre artists for discussion and advice. The event will galvanize the community by offering support and encouragement in a…
Critic Chris Jones, editorial assistant KT Hawbaker and Chicago's theaters serve up some holiday realness and drag the newspaper into the new year. (Kasondra Van Treeck/Chicago Tribune)
Critic Chris Jones, editorial assistant KT Hawbaker and Chicago's theaters serve up some holiday realness and drag the newspaper into the new year. (Kasondra Van Treeck/Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has just announcedthat the Theater will stage the critically acclaimed new musicalSIX, written byToby MarlowandLucy Moss, following its debut in the United Kingdo…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater said Thursday that is is postponing its planned summer production of a new musical adaptation of the 1971 Disney movie, "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" and will instea…
Black Box Acting has announced a change in ownership. Andrew Cutler, Amanda Fink and Eric Gerard will succeed co-founders Audrey Francis and Laura Hooper. Founded in 2009, Black Box Acting h…
Issues of identity and immigration, borders and belonging, took on harsh and frightening dimensions in the headlines this year. So in looking over the shows that made the biggest impression …
From sex offenders to amoral business people and nervous autoworkers to self-involved rock stars, Chicago theater was home to some spectacularly vivid characters in 2018. Here's our annual t…
In 2005, a crowd gathered at the University of Chicago's Reynolds Club to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of improv. No less an authority than the university archivist had de…
Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr (Jerry Maguire), who played Billy Flynn in the Broadway revival of Chicago from October 6 to November 18 in 2018, will return to the production fo…
All he cares about is love...and heading back to Broadway! Oscar winner and main-stem alum Cuba Gooding Jr. will reprise his recent Broadway turn as smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the …
The Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago has announced that Academy Award winner and Emmy nominee Cuba Gooding Jr. will return to Broadway as the smooth-talking lawyer Bil…
'Tis the season for friends, family, sweet treats and the Broadway Cares holiday CD "Carols for a Cure"! In the spirit of the season and in support of BC/EFA, each year, s…
Amy Schumer is all set to entertain audiences with her robust sense of humor at Illinois' Chicago Theatre on December 19 and 20.According to Wikipedia, Schumer forayed into comedy in the ear…
A SPORADIC DREAM There's an epiphany near the end of Shakespeare's celebration A Midsummer Night's Dream when the mixed-up quartet of wayward lovers who've been confoundedly mashed …
Friday "La Ruta": To the U.S.-owned factories in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, La Ruta is just a bus. But to the hundreds of women who live, work and often disappear along the route, it's more. A w…
IT’LL LEAVE YOU DAZED AND CIRQUE-FUSED Neil Goldberg has a fine formula for his fantastic franchise. His eleven Cirque Dreams spectaculars feature ever-changing processions of dazzling…
"A Shayna Maidel" âœâœâœâœ Barbara Lebow's 1980s play "A Shayna Maidel" is a much richer work than I ever realized, especially in director Vanessa Stalling's exquisitely acte…
Wither forgiveness in a year of constant American division? That question was at the core of many of the best Chicago shows of 2018 as this theater-loving city explored questions of guilt, p…
Shattered Globe Theatre and Theater Wit are pleased to present the Chicago premiere of Will Eno's heartbreaking new comedy THE REALISTIC [...]
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This year, Chicago's dance stages were filled with bold, ambitious programming, stunning revivals and work which responded to the present by reflecting on the past. It goes without saying th…
