WAKING UP FROM THE AMERICAN DREAM The title of Oracle Theatre's typically invigorating offering, THIS HOUSE BELIEVES THE AMERICAN DREAM IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO, is actually a…
Carly Hughes plays a limited return engagement in the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago beginning Aug. 22.
"Dirty Dancing" is undoubtedly one of my favorite films. I remember watching it in grade school for the zillionth time with one of my best friends and getting in trouble for jumping off of h…
Scan the list of the season's just announced Jeff Awards Equity nominations - honoring excellence in productions that opened between Aug. 1, 2014 and July 31, 2015 - and there can be only on…
Updated: Comedian Aziz Ansari will perform a surprise trio of shows Thursday night at the Chicago Zanies. Tickets have sold out.Â
THE BOYS ARE BACK Those power-popsters One Direction (sans Zayn Malik) bring their world tour ... The post The Mix " One Direction (and 5 more cool things to check out this weekend in Chicag…
Comedian Aziz Ansari has announced a surprise trio of shows Thursday night at the Chicago Zanies. Tickets are on sale now.Â
FRIDAY | "This House Believes the American Dream is at the Expense of the American Negro": The audiences get to vote on the winner in this immersive experience that explores how our past is …
Thodos Dance Chicago has enjoyed formidable local and national success with two recent full-length “dance ... The post Thodos Dance’s next “story ballet” full of Chic…
Back in my college days, I attended a sizable number of history and political science lectures as a Theatre and Poli-sci double major. I would have been thrilled if any of those lectures had…
The Chicago Humanities Festival today announced the full schedule for its 26th annual extravaganza, running Oct. ... The post Ta-Nehisi Coates, Nigella Lawson, Elvis Costello join Chicago…
Loop theater owner Broadway in Chicago held its Summer Concert on Monday evening - with guest performers from 10 touring stage musicals showing up to sing songs at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion …
By Aaron Hunt. Aaron Hunt on new musical development in Chicago, Illinois.
"I've always been bothered by the ballet 'Sleeping Beauty' - irritated by it, really, because no story ever gets told," says choreographer Lar Lubovitch. That thought fathered his most recen…
The 9th annual Chicago Dancing Festival is shining a special spotlight on "Modern Women" as part of its week-long programming at three Chicago venues. The post A spotlight on ‘modern w…
"I've always been bothered by the ballet 'Sleeping Beauty' - irritated by it, really, because no story ever gets told," says choreographer Lar Lubovitch. That thought fathered his most recen…
Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON returns for a seven-week limited engagement, June 28 " August 14, 2016, at the Bank of America Theatre (18 West Monroe). THE BOOK OF MORMON hol…
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND Whenever it's revived, it's hard to imagine a more necessary musical than this 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner. Seventy years after the Japanese surrender, it remains a healin…
The nine-time Tony Award-winning musical “The Book of Mormon” will return to Chicago next summer ... The post ‘The Book of Mormon’ to return to Chicago in 2016 appear…
"Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling, 'Yoo hoo!'"
Comedian John Oliver is doing a night of stand-up comedy at the Chicago Theatre this winter, Live Nation and Madison Square Garden Entertainment announced.
John Oliver, the British comedian known best for his comedic political commentary on "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on HBO and previously on "The Daily Show" with J…
Comedian John Oliver is doing a night of stand-up comedy at the Chicago Theatre this winter, Live Nation and Madison Square Garden Entertainment announced.
His Girl Friday is a stirring celebration of the power of journalism that not only amuses but manages to be troubling as well.