International award-winning Broadway and West End musical Chicago is set to razzle dazzle audiences at the Lyceum Theatre from Monday 6 to Saturday 11 June, starring stage and television sta…
Casting is complete for the new musical "War Paint" starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole as dueling makeup mavens, Goodman Theatre announced Thursday. Joining the cast are Chicago…
Chicago Shakespeare's *Tug of War* boasts a stunning ensemble and top-notch design and live music. Despite all of its strengths, however, Tug of War doesn't quite work - it has a very specif…
From a purely economic perspective, Chicago Shakespeare Theater's "Tug of War: Foreign Fire" is a pretty good deal. With a running time equivalent to three full-length plays (sans roughly se…
Come springtime next year, Drury Lane Theatre will be the first local company to produce "Chicago" in decades, the Oak Brook Terrace-based theater announced Wednesday. Rights for the city's …
After watching O.J. Simpson getting found not guilty, the public seemed more willing to accept the musical's cynical look at life.
Some Broadway in Chicago subscribers are up in arms " as once was Alexander Hamilton. This contemporary duel is over season subscribers' inability to purchase additional tickets to the Chica…
Max McLean will return to Chicago to perform in "C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert," McLean's Fellowship for Performing Arts announced Tuesday. McLean, seen in "Mark's Gospe…
BINGEWATCHING THE BARD “Tug of war”–a child's game that mutates into an adult's nightmare; it's an apt title for Chicago Shakespeare Theater's marathon of Bard history p…
AN UNCRITICAL MATING COMEDY Familiar gay fare, The Boys Upstairs, a 2009 rouser by Jason Mitchell, revels in industrial-strength crowd-pleasing. Pride Films and Plays' two-hour funfest is cr…
Longtime collaborators Robert Falls and Rebecca Gilman come together again.
Disney’s princesses are breaking out of their stereotypes and telling the world what they really think of Walt"sort of. “Disenchanted!,” with book, music and lyrics by Denn…
Rebecca Gilman reunites with Robert Falls at The Goodman Theatre.
Yesterday, May 19, the cast and creative team of THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL arrived in Chicago for a press conference. Check out a look at the big day below
A DOCUMENTARY DRAMA DELIVERS Chicago is currently witnessing two productions about photojournalists haunted by their work. TimeLine Theatre's Chimerica offers a flawed but fascinating 180-mi…
The new theatre preservation project is modeled after the New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
The comedy by Getting Groomed author Jason Mitchell is Chicago-bound.
Underscore Theatre Company's third annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival will feature several premieres, two New York Musical Festival transplants and two workshop productions. The 14-musi…
Franz Kafka and Philip Glass are a match made in heaven. They both experiment with form within the boundaries of classic genres, displacing the audience just slightly to the left or right of…
By HowlRound TV. The Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) , in association with ArtWorks, the National Endowment for the Arts, Columbia College of Chicago, and the League of Chicago Theatres, …
Actors' Equity is teaming up with the Chicago Public Library to allow patrons to view recorded theatrical performances.
Isn’t it grand? Dylis Croman, a long-time Roxie, is set to return to Broadway. She will replace Bianca Marroquín in Chicago on May 23; the Tony-winning revival is playing at the…
American Theatre Company will stage Dan Aibel's T., named after Tonya Harding and based on the Nancy Kerrigan ice-skating incident.
NEW YORK " Jaime Camil will be channeling his sleazy lawyer side on Broadway.The "Jane the Virgin" star will play Billy Flynn in the record-breaking "Chicago" starting May 31.Set in the 1920…