A new archive of Chicago theater performances is being created through Actors' Equity and the Chicago Public Library that will allow anyone with a valid photo ID to watch recorded show…
The planned Broadway musical about Harry Houdini remains stalled. But the House Theatre of Chicago's intimate, illusion-filled tribute to the justly celebrated scion of Appleton, Wis., is ba…
Although now a staging area for the high-priced eateries and towering condominiums of the West Loop, Chicago's Haymarket Square has a history of blood. On May 4, 1886, " 130 years ago " a ma…
From recent Oscar nomineeDiane Warren's Til It Happens To You live music performance with students to acclaimed actressJane Lynchjoking about how ambition kills inspiration,Columbia College …
Notice his mouth never moves. Almost. Jane the Virgin's Jaime Camil has joined the cast of Chicago for a five-week run, from May 31 to July 3. He'll play fast-talking lawyer Billy Flynn, who…
Just in time for the musical’s 20th anniversary on the Great White Way, Chicago has cast a new Billy Flynn — Jaime Camil. Most recently seen on American television i…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musicalChicagowill welcomeLatin sensation amp 'Jane the Virgin' starJaime Camilmaking his Broadway debut in the role of Bi…
GIRL-POWER PRINCESSES TAKE ON TROPES, BUT THIS REVUE COULD USE MORE WIT AND MAGIC If you were a mean girl, you might call Disenchanted! a feel-good pity party. More compassionate souls will …
All he cares about is love! Jane the Virgin star Jaime Camil is set to make his Broadway debut in Chicago as Billy Flynn beginning May 31, stepping in for Ryan Silverman. He will play a five…
The season of comedy fests continues with the fifth annual Chicago Women's Funny Festival, which is billed as the largest gathering of comediennes in the country with more than 95 groups …
A SEARCH FOR DOUBT BOTH TANTALIZES AND ENERVATES Speculation is just as tricky on the stage as on the stock market. Winner of the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award, Chimerica (its title suggesting…
"The Bardy Bunch," an Off-Broadway mash-up parody that imagines the Partridge Family and the Brady Bunch as Shakespearean feuding families in their own war of the sitcom roses, is headed to …
Who’d have thought that a musical based on a couple of murder cases set in Prohibition-era Chicago would turn out to be one of the biggest Broadway hits of all time? Especially on …
Last weekend, tucked away in the Northwest Side offices of a company that makes socket screws and industrial fasteners, a small film crew assembled. The retro, dusty ambience of the place…
A FAIRY TALE LEAPS INTO LOVE Rossini, Walt Disney, Rodgers and Hammerstein"they all wanted a piece of Perrault's fairy tale. Cinderella has become Cendrillon, Cenerentola, and, by Jerry Lewi…
Last month, at the Steppenwolf Theatre press opening for Tracy Letts' new play, "Mary Page Marlowe," a man in the audience blurted out what some of the more restrained members in the house w…
The National Endowment for the Arts will award more than $82 million to artistic projects throughout the country in the second grant announcement of its 50th anniversary year, including $954…
A new dinner-theater show based on a happily sadistic and slapstick Japanese game show is coming to Chicago, offering Midwestern revelers the chance to eat Sushi in the company of a quartet …
