Are you a funny woman in Chicago looking to showcase your comedy chops? Submissions are now being accepted for the 5th Annual Chicago Women's Funny Festival, Stage 773 announced Friday. The …
FRENZY IN FEBRUARY Detonating across the Auditorium Theatre's vast stage through February 21, Joffrey Ballet's Bold Moves has more of the latter than the former stuff. But this kinetic winte…
SATURDAY | "The Flick": Annie Baker's Pulitzer-Prize winning play set in a movie theater makes its Chicago premiere. Through May 8 at Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.; 312-335-1650 a…
RECOMMENDED Can anyone listen to the uprush of that first glorious phrase in “Der Rosenkavalier” without getting goose flesh? Without feeling a joy so intense it puts one's heart…
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today casting for the remaining principal roles in its grand-scale production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, featuring Broadway stars Kate Bald…
La Voix Humaine RECOMMENDED I don't think I was the only one who observed, immediately after the curtain went up Saturday night on the first of two operas at the Harris Theater, that it was …
Still haven’t locked down your plans for the weekend? Here are some suggestions sure to ... The post The Mix " The Chicago Auto Show (and 4 more cool things to check out this weekend) …
TALLY LOW Doggedly determined to fight yesterday's battles, Nell Benjamin's chronic farce The Explorers Club manically mocks the heyday of male British explorers. Fuddy-duddy adventure seeke…
MAJESKI'S MAJESTIC MARSCHALLIN Lyric Opera's new production of Der Rosenkavalier is beautiful, charming, and magnificent. It delightfully exceeded my expectations and gave me a new appreciat…
Trevor Noah has added a second one-night-only performance in Chicago this spring, it was announced Wednesday. The "Daily Show" host, originally slated to appear at the Chicago Theatre on Ma…
Trevor Noah has added a second one-night-only performance in Chicago this spring, it was announced Wednesday. The "Daily Show" host, originally slated to appear at the Chicago Theatre on Mar…
The eighth annual Chicago International Movies & Music Festival (CIMMfest), a five-day showcase that celebrates the inseparable connection between music and movies, will take place April…
The fourth annual edition of Chicago Theatre Week - a program presented by the League of Chicago Theatres in partnership with Choose Chicago, that was designed to boost theater-going during …
SATURDAY | "The Flick": Annie Baker's Pulitzer-Prize winning play set in a movie theater makes its Chicago premiere. Through May 8 at Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St.; 312-335-1650 a…
Eddie George is a former Heisman trophy winner and he's now starring in CHICAGO on Broadway. The former NFL player talks to LATE SHOW host Stephen Colbert about making the transition.
A DAMNED GOOD PAIRING What could be a more appropriate title for an opera than La Voix Humaine? What better source material for an opera than Dante's Divina Commedia? Chicago Opera Theatre c…
Moderated discussion around the topic of selecting season content the first of a new series presented by the recently expanded DLCDirectorsLabChicago is pleased to announce a Directors Town …
PROPOSAL SOLICITATION INFORMATION " WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:The Network of Ensemble Theaters will present a national Symposium in Chicago from May 20-22, 2016, in partnership with Columbia Co…
If a King Lear could still be said to exist anywhere in the world, then Alexander Lukashenko, the president of the Republic of Belarus, is about as close a candidate as you could find. In of…
RECOMMENDED There are two words that can make almost any regular theatergoer flinch: audience participation. The irony is unmistakable. In an art form that lives and dies on vulnerability, o…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) welcomes Oxford Playhouse's stirring Sancho: An Act of Remembrance, starring celebrated Royal Shakespeare Company actor Paterson Joseph, Å
By Andrew Bailes. Andrew Bailes describes the unlikely link between the Gainesville, Florida and Chicago, Illinois improv communities.
"The Ben Hecht Show" will premiere in Chicago in the summer of 2016, Grippo Stage Company announced Friday. Written and performed by James Sherman with direction by Dennis Zacek, the play a…
Broadway In Chicago and Moya Doherty are pleased to announce that individual tickets for Riverdance – The 20th Anniversary World Tour are on sale to the public now.Riverdance " The 20t…
"The Ben Hecht Show" will premiere in Chicago in the summer of 2016, Grippo Stage Company announced Friday. Written and performed by James Sherman with direction by Dennis Zacek, the play ab…