Tony winner Sutton Foster is "very excited" to be coming to Chicago for the big annual Goodman Theatre summer gala this Saturday " at a time of year where she won't see her breath, every tim…
DIRTY DOINGS IN DIXIE In a way The Little Foxes is a complete complement to Margaret Mitchell's antebellum revisionism in Gone With The Wind (which appeared the same year as Lillian Hellman'…
In honor of The Visit's legendary creative team and leading lady, Playbill Vault is looking back at Kander, Ebb, McNally and Rivera's Broadway history together with newly-added c…
Drury Lane Productions and Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso Broadway's Spring Awakening, Rock of Ages have announced the cast for the pre-Broadway production of Beaches, A New Musical, based on the…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chicagoans, get out your hankies - a stage musical of "Beaches" is coming....
DISTURBED DANCES Two years ago Boris Eifman brought his all-absorbing story recital Rodin to the Auditorium Theatre. It delighted audiences with its stream of 1,000-word pictures: The vibran…
Chicago, as you may be aware, is the center of the universe when it comes to improvised sketch comedy. Stages are filled nightly by young comedians who are trying really hard to break into t…
Today we are celebrating the many recent, current and upcoming productions on Broadway and beyond featuring the music of John Kander.
There’s a new Broadway headliner taking a seat on the Broadway.com couch! We’ll give you a hint: she just made her Broadway debut, she has a Grammy and she once went to the ball …
The CSz Theater Chicago, a 150-seat flexible, cabaret-style performance venue (5,500 sq.ft.) with moveable tables and chairs, also includes full sound system (CD/DVD player, stand and lavali…
NEW YORK (AP) -- Starring on Broadway in "Chicago" has turned into a fountain of youth for Brandy Norwood....
The news this week that the highly entertaining "Louis and Keely 'Live' at the Sahara" was closing at the Royal George on May 17" despite good reviews and fairly robust ticket sales, I'm tol…
RECOMMENDED I spent some time after I left Irish Theatre of Chicago's "The White Road" thinking about how I would have fared. The play chronicles the famous 1914 Shackleton expedition"an att…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago welcomes Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood to the Ambassador Theatre beginning April 28.
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago just welcomed Grammy Award-winner Brandy Norwood, who made her Broadway debut in the role of Roxie Hart. S…
Why did Chicago's public housing initiatives go so terribly wrong along the way? Or was the writing on the wall even before the first concrete block was laid in the ground? These are among t…
RECOMMENDED The music of Johnny Cash has a unique sound that elevates it past the rest of the country genre. Even those of us who aren't terribly familiar with other country songs will know …
The pop star plays Roxie Hart in Kander and Ebb's classic musical.
No one who was living in Chicago in 1994 can ever forget the death of 5-year-old Eric Morse, who fell to his death from the 14th floor of the Ida B. Wells public housing complex on Chicago's…
Click for photos of Grammy winner Brandy Norwood as Roxie in Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre.
No one who was living in Chicago in 1994 can ever forget the death of 5-year-old Eric Morse, who fell to his death from the 14th floor of the Ida B. Wells public housing complex on Chicago's…
THE ONCE AND FALLEN DREAM It's a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli …
SUNDAY | "Big Fish": In composer Andrew Lippa's musical, based on Tim Burton's film and the novel by Daniel Wallace, a man's tall tales complicate his relationship with his son. Through June…
Michele Lowe's play is set to begin performances tonight.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announced that it will extend the run of its world premiere production of "Sense and Sensibility" through June 14. The musical adaptations of Jane Austen's…