A TRAGICOMEDY WITH TRICKS Well, why not do The Tempest as a magic show? It comes with Shakespeare's territory. During the Duke of Milan's unhappy exile, deposed by his nefarious brother, wit…
THEY DO IT ALL FOR US 14 years ago, terror became a date in the calendar. "9/11" casts an ever darker shadow onto the future. It also remains the latest official loss of American innocence. …
YOKED ASUNDER Don't believe the ironic title of a first-act song: Daisy and Violet Hilton were not your "Typical Girls Next Door." Conjoined (or "Siamese" twins), they were, grotesquely enou…
COMING CHOREOGRAPHY Opening its 60th season, the Joffrey Ballet literally leaps into the future with Millennials, a three-part program at the Auditorium Theatre. Closing Sunday, it features …
BOYS WILL BE PIGS The title can mislead: Dogfight is not about World War I flying aces Eddie Rickenbacker and The Red Baron doing loop-the-loops as they shoot each other out of the sky. Dogf…
Turns out "Dancing With the Stars" winner Rumer Willis can act, too.
Margaret Cho called Robin Williams her "father in comedy" and Joan Rivers her "mother in comedy," which means she lost both comedic parents in the span of a month. (Williams died Aug. 11, 20…
Fresh off the success of their September live entertainment and dining events, Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, 1 West Wacker Drive, continues to impress with an array of unique happening…
Apparently there is a hashtag about pets and odor. (Yes, #PETiquette.) And apparently it has something to do with using Febreze to keep Rover from stinking up the place before guests ar…
The opera, one of Mozart's earliest successes, starts tonight.
"La Revolution Francaise," a musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil (of "Les Miserables" and Miss Saigon" fame), will receive a concert reading featuring its new English langua…
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University welcomes back River North Dance Chicago (RNDC) for a special Fall Engagement as the company says farewell to retiring Artistic Director Frank C…
RECOMMENDED Chicago's opera enthusiasts must be collectively humming as the 2015/2016 opera season explodes on the scene with two Mozart operas, "Lucio Silla" at Chicago Opera Theater, and "…
Danieley will return to the Great White Way in this long-running musical.
Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to invite high schools across the state of Illinois to participate in the Fifth Annual Illinois High School Musical Theatre Awards. The Illinois High School M…
SATURDAY | "The Marriage of Figaro": Barbara Gaines returns to the Lyric to direct Mozart's comedic opera about a crazy day in an 18th century castle. Through Oct. 24 at the Civic Opera Hous…
Broadway In Chicago, along with Starvox Entertainment and June Entertainment, are pleased to announce that tickets for SHERLOCK HOLMES will go on public sale on Friday, September 25.…
Join Chicago Gateway Green (CGG) for this year's Green Tie Ball XXIV "Studio 54", which will raise funds for their CGG's Expressway Partnership Program. The proceeds from this year's ball wi…
We've known for some time that he can wear the hell out of a tux, so this seems like a natural fit. Broadway alum Jason Danieley will step into the Ambassador Theatre courtroom as Chicag…
BroadwayWorld has just learned that theTony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago will welcome Jason Danieley in the role of Billy Flynn beginning Tuesday, October 13 at the Amb…
SATURDAY | "The Marriage of Figaro": Barbara Gaines returns to the Lyric to direct Mozart's comedic opera about a crazy day in an 18th century castle. Through Oct. 24 at the Civic Opera Hous…
Jason Danieley, recently seen in The Visit, will return to Broadway Oct. 13 in the role of corrupt but charismatic lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running musical Chicago.
If you're interested in the history of Chicago theater, you'll likely know the formidable collection of documents, programs and other memorabilia at the Harold Washington Library Center, the…
Chicago Dramatists has announced its 2015-16 season, the first without Russ Tutterow and with new artistic director Meghan Beals. "Beautiful Autistic" (Feb. 4 " March 14) by Scott Woldman o…
Last summer, my wife and I spent a memorable weekend in Bar Harbor, Maine. We hiked through Acadia National Park and made the low-tide crossing to Bar Island for a spectacular view of the ha…