For 15 years, American Blues Theater has treated Chicago audiences to a live 1940s radio broadcast of holiday favorite, It's a Wonderful Life. The show is always a timely and entertaining wa…
A disappointing turnout for the Chicago theatre company led to the cancellation of two shows.
A holiday edition of #Ham4Ham hit the streets of Chicago.
FIXING FICTION It's not your usual detective story: A quaint couple works to restore a villain suddenly lost from countless fairy tales. Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth depicts a very proper Edwardi…
The holiday season is not complete without the perfect music to accompany it. 'Broadway's Carols for a Cure' is the latest compilation album that embodies the spirit of the season like nothi…
Of all the plays Shakespeare wrote, The Winter's Tale is one of the most problematic. Directed by Declan Donnellan at Chicago Shakespeare, Cheek By Jowl's highly conceptual staging of the pl…
Now that the majority ofHam4Ham shows are digital, it's even more exciting when a rare live performance is announced. This afternoon, the Chicago cast of Hamilton made their live Ham4Ham deb…
DROPPING THE DROPPING CHANDELIER Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-musical wants to be an opera about opera to end opera. Ironically, "Hannibal," its first-act spoof of a 19th-century grand oper…
"Hamilton" fans lined up around the block outside the PrivateBank Theatre on Saturday afternoon for a shot at winning tickets in the show's first live lottery in Chicago. And even those whoÃ…
Producer Jeffrey Seller and Broadway In Chicago announce HAMILTON's LIVE lottery and special Ham4Ham holiday show with cast members in Chicago today, December 17.
Drew Hodges of SpotCo fame on his book On Broadway: From Rent to Revolution, Broadway.com's pick for #1 book of 2016.
Playwright Simon Stephens never explicitly mentions autism in the drama inspired by Mark Haddon's novel. But as this alternately funny, wrenching, riveting, and ultimately inspiring story un…
Voting has opened for the 2016 BroadwayWorld Chicago Regional Awards, honoring productions which opened between October 2016 and September 2016. Nominations were reader-submitted and after t…
Producer Jeffrey Seller and Broadway In Chicago announce HAMILTON's LIVE lottery and special Ham4Ham holiday show with cast members in Chicago on Saturday, December 17.
Lyric Opera announced today that Tony Award-winning Broadway star Jessie Mueller and gospel and RampB sensation Michelle Williams will join the line-up of performers slated for the Chicago V…
The three-time Tony Award recipient makes her Auditorium Theatre debut.
The musical comes from Chicago-based improv troupe Baby Wants Candy.
TCHAIKOVSKY MEETS THE WORLD'S FAIR: A PERFECT NUTCRACKER RECIPE It was a marvel of the ages and the crowning achievement of the 19th century (except maybe the Eiffel Tower). Now, happily, th…
Chicago's Theater on the Lake is undergoing a total renovation. Meanwhile, the Chicago Park District is announcing a new commission intended to involve the city in the creation of a world-pr…
The actor is best remembered for his work on the TV series Growing Pains.
Alan Thicke, perhaps best known for his role as Jason Seaver, the father on the ABC television series Growing Pains, died on Tuesday, December 13th. He was 69. Thicke's manager confirmed the…
In a welcome break from the usual steady stream of pantomimes and children's productions, the New Alexandra Theatre takes a trip back to the Roaring Twenties this Christmas with Chicago. How…
NASHVILLE NIGHTINGALES If winter needs warming, Honky Tonk Angels should heat up happy crowds at the No Exit Café in Chicago's Rogers Park. The bubbly good time delivers a mix of downhome d…