Collaboraction is seeking submissions of short plays, devised theatre, dance, spoken word and performance from throughout the Chicagoland area for our upcoming youth festival, THE LIGHT. We …
Ricky Jay, who died last Saturday, was the most genial, smart and loquacious magician you ever could hope to meet. Looking back on all the magic shows I've reviewed over the years in Chicago…
Buy one orchestrafront mess ticket reg. 89 to see CHICAGO on Broadway and get the second for just 22. That's only 111 for two tickets
Friday "Twelfth Night, Or What You Will": Viola poses as a man and causes much romantic confusion, while a servant, Malvolio, imagines he can become a nobleman. Through Dec. 16 at Lincoln Pa…
Later today, November19, The Shops at Columbus Circle 10 Columbus Circle will kick off its third year of Broadway Under the Stars, a five-week series of free public performances taking place…
Tony Adler stepped down as the Reader's senior theater critic last month.…
FROM CANCER TO THE COSMOS, OR TO HELA AND BACK There's cold fusion and then there's hot fusion–the theatrical kind. In the world-premiere HeLa, an awesome co-production by Sideshow …
Agne G. from Chicago will be performing the only East Coast appearance of her Christmas concert tour for her newly released CD, "Merry Christmas from My Heart," at Epiphany Lutheran Chur…
Left-field jazz group's expansive 21-CD retrospective traces their musical experiments over more than 35 years
A PERFECT TEN OUT OF TIN, OR YOURS, MIME, AND OURS This "soldier" is well worth saluting: There's an enchanting Christmas Pantomime on Michigan Avenue — Lookingglass Theatre Company's …
On Thanksgiving Eve at the Oriental Theatre, several hundred of us took time to give thanks for an all-American freedom of expression " the precious right to make fun of our elders, spoof re…
Ready to plan your holiday theater-going? Let me see if I can help. Everything mentioned in this column has been reviewed in, and recommended by, the Tribune, either this year or not too lon…
INGE'S NOISY DESPERATION Mission accomplished: Eclipse Theatre Company characteristically concludes its season with a play that wears a big heart on an open sleeve. The troupe, which cultiva…
On Tuesday, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival announced its roster for 2019, culling artists from around the world. Now in its third biennial run, the fest aims to turn the c…
On Tuesday, Firebrand Theatre announced that award-winning actress Barbara E. Robertson will star as Anna (Annie) Edson Taylor in its Chicago premiere of "Queen of the Mist." Robertson is a …
Stage-and-screen star John O'Hurley returns to Broadway on November 20, stepping back into the Tony-winning revival of Kander & Ebb's Chicago. O'Hurley takes over the ro…
Given the excitement occasioned by 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now the youngest woman ever to be elected to the United States Congress, dollars to donuts that a lot of people in TV…
Chicago Improv Festival, once billed as the biggest sketch and improv fest on the planet, has announced its end after a 20 year run. "Over the past 20 years we have achieved all we set out t…
The Cirque du Soleil will return to Chicago in 2019. But its tent will be pitched not outside the United Center, as has been the case for years, but in the south parking lot of Soldier Field…
The fraught election season of blue and red is (sort of) in the rearview mirror as bright holiday colors deck the halls and malls. Before you're overloaded with shopping and socializing, tak…
The recording star and YouTube favorite returns to the role of Billy Flynn.
Some 26 years after its signature chopper first descended on the Auditorium Theatre, "Miss Saigon" is back in Chicago and still out-selling every other show in town. (Except one, which has a…
Dr. Seuss' "How The Grinch Stole Christmas!," the quirky musical will be on stage from November 16 through November 25, 2018, at The Chicago Theatre.Two-time Tony Award nominated Broadway ac…
John O'Hurley is bringing his razzle-dazzle factor back to Broadway! The stage-and-screen star will return to the Tony-winning revival of Kander & Ebb's Chicago as Billy Fly…
Broadway In Chicago and TROIKA Entertainment are delighted to announce tickets for the Tony Award ®- winning KINKY BOOTS will go [...] The post KINKY BOOTS RETURNS TO CH…