COMMITMENT CRISES FUEL A CRACKLING COMEDY Many, many gay plays since Stonewall have pitted fidelity against promiscuity, love against sex, and, nowadays, marriage against friendship. Same-se…
EVERYTHING'S FINE IN '59 It's as welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring: A cascading, minute-by-minute hit, Bye Bye Birdie is a showcase for happiness even as it merrily mocks the…
LEARNING TO BE LOVED The past clashes with the future in Dominique Morisseau's Sunset Baby, a drama more of reckoning than reconciliation. Despite her rage at the father she thinks desert…
FRIDAY | "Le Switch": About Face Theatre presents Philip Dawkins' romance about a commitment-shy gay man and a florist who sweeps him off his feet. Through Feb. 21 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Be…
Shakespeare 400 Chicago  announces today the festival line-up for 2016, featuring 850 events on stages and in museums, restaurants, parks, schools and neighborhoods across Chicag…
The League of Chicago Theatres is now accepting applications for the 2016 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award. The recipient of the award receives $5,000, a consultation and marketing…
The catalog for Shakespeare 400 Chicago is officially out now, both online and in print. As festival producer Doreen Sayegh promised when I talked to her the other day, it is, indeed, possib…
The Bard is backShakespeare 400 Chicagotoday announcedthe festival line-up for 2016, featuring 850 events on stages and in museums, restaurants, parks, schools and neighborhoods across Chica…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced the ensemble of Barbara Gaines' two-part, six-play history cycle "Tug of War." Performing over 100 Shakespearean characters throughout a century of…
In less than a year, the organization founded by actor Lori Myers has addressed issues of conduct both in and outside the workplace.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced the ensemble of Barbara Gaines' two-part, six-play history cycle "Tug of War." Performing over 100 Shakespearean characters throughout a century of …
Consider these statistics: During the course of his life William Shakespeare is believed to have ... The post Shakespeare 400 Chicago to feature 850 events appeared first on Chicago Entertai…
Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler's nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
ANOTHER WALTZ WITH TENNESSEE Tom "Tennessee" Williams never buried his treasures. The ultimate, unashamed "bleeding heart," this passionate playwright put his soul and guts into every show h…
FRIDAY | "Le Switch": About Face Theatre presents Philip Dawkins' romance about a commitment-shy gay man and a florist who sweeps him off his feet. Through Feb. 21 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Be…
If you like Shakespeare, well, 2016 is your year. From January 27 on, you'll be able to attend a Bard-related event nearly every day if you so desire, courtesy of Chicago Shakespeare's Shake…
TOO TRUE TO BE NEW Subtitled "A Tale of Today," Mark Twain's early novel The Gilded Age was written in (and from) 1873, a dozen years before Huckleberry Finn rafted down the Mississipp…
Mr. George's turn as Billy Flynn is a major step in his second act far from pro football.
Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name about professional basketball’s first-ever, aged 60-and-older dance team, plays its …
Million Dollar Quartet, the musical that dramatizes the historic recording session of four American rock icons who came to light in the '50s, ends its seven-year run in Chicago Jan. …
Chicago's Goodman Theatre presents the world premiere of Another Word for Beauty, a new music-and-movement-filled play by Oscar nominee Jos&eac…
The new cast will be joining Sam Bailey and John Partridge on tour in February
"Out with the old, in with the new," is one of the many well-intentioned platitudes you hear frequently this time of year. Personally, I find that type of sharp-turn resolution a bit difficu…
Chicago native L. Scott Caldwell is part of the very large and esteemed ensemble cast of "Mercy Street," the six-part PBS Civil War drama mini-series debuting at 8 p.m. Sunday on WTTW-Channe…
A SERIOUSLY STUPID SCREAMFEST Premiering in politically correct San Francisco in 2014, Christopher Chen's cartoon drama purports to address multi-culturalism in politics. This two-act trifle…