Producer Scott Rudin today announced that Steppenwolf's production of The Minutes, the new play from Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Tracy Letts, will have its Broadway prem…
The popular Off-Broadway parody will have its regional premiere in the Windy City next month.
Stage 773 Director of Theatre Management Jill Valentine and co-producer Liz McArthur are happy to [...]
Still can't get tickets to "Hamilton" in Chicago? Prepare to join in the roast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical with an all-Chicago cast at the Royal George Theatre. "Spamilton,"…
Are you over the moon about Wayne Brady's return to the stage as Aaron Burrbut can't get your hands on Hamilton tickets With Charitybuzz, your dream is now a little closer than it seemedThe …
A study of a recent season in the Windy City found that women wrote just 25 percent of plays and directed 36 percent.
After four years of producing plays in Chicago, Step Up Productions is reforming as Step Up Chicago Playwrights. In its new form, Step Up will dedicate itself to supporting new Chicago plays…
Chryssie Whitehead talks about joining Chicago as Go-To-Hell-Kitty, her time in Company and A Chorus Line, and what she tells her students about getting to Broadway.
Lyric Opera of Chicago presents "Norma" by Vincenzo Bellini through February 24, 2017.Norma is a timeless story of love, loyalty, betrayal and jealousy. It was composed by Vincenzo Bellini a…
Charlotte d'Amboise is returning to Broadway's Chicago on February 20. The two-time Tony nominee is replacing Spice Girl Mel B in the role of Roxie Hart at the Ambassador T…
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME I fondly recall the infectiously brilliant Cardiff Giant shows that Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann perpetrated in the 80s and 90s. After so much success in Chicago, it's …
THE URGE TO BE USEFUL Steppenwolf Theatre is great at stirring things up"on stage and in the minds of its crowds. Nobody does it so well. Exhibit A is their latest offering: There's good cau…
THE SONGS AND THE FURY Sardonic, ironic, cheeky, subversive"hip epithets can't convey the excruciating call-and-response fusion of humor and horror, laughter and tears, that you feel seeing …
Paul Organisak, former vice president in charge of programming for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust who is perhaps best known for helping to bring the yellow duck to Pittsburgh in 2013, has a n…
TAKING OUT THE (WHITE) TRASH Ever since 1981, small-town souls, Dixie doodles and atavistic Red State rednecks have fueled the fun in the Tuna trilogy. It's a hilarious perpetration by adapt…
According to the Chicago Tribune, film star and Second City alumnus Mike Myers Austin Powers, Shrek, Wayne's Worldwill play improv great Del Close in a new biopic produced by the Windy City …
Mike Myers, the actor who starred in "Wayne's World," "Austin Powers" and on "Saturday Night Live!" and whose career began at Second City, will play the role of the real-life improv guru Del…
The theatre welcomes the return of the acclaimed playwright following the success of Good for Otto.
When Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. played Aaron Burr in Broadway's "Hamilton," he seethed. Joshua Henry, who originally played the part in Chicago and will reprise the role in the upcoming tou…
More than 100 productions are taking part in the annual discount-ticket event.
Molly Brennan will play the drifter who upends a small town in American Theater Company’s production of the William Inge classic.
Mel B chats about the joys of returning to Broadway in Chicago, the Spice Girls group text and her "no filter" style of judging America's Got Talent.