The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago will welcome Grammy Award winner Brandy Norwood to the Ambassador Theatre beginning April 28.
One of the greatest musicals ever written for the stage has come to life in Chicago in a new staging led by Broadway talent on the stage and off as well! Carousel, the musical masterpiece…
The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago will welcome Grammy Award-winner Brandy Norwood making her Broadway debut in the role of Roxie Hart beginn…
Seventy years old, Carousel remains the rich jewel in the crown of songwriting titans Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, whose collaboration has given birth to 10 Broadway musicals. Alth…
Wonderful things can come of Lyric's decision to present musical theater. New audiences may be caught up in the ambiance, and elect to attend an opera. Lyric's opera audiences could see musi…
A new Latino theater festival is coming to Chicago this summer, it was announced on Monday.
MAKING HEAVY OF LIFE "Can you see magic?" That's both process and purpose in Jordan Harrison's deliberately dazzling 75-minute bravura piece The Grown-Up, now strutting its precious stuff…
RECOMMENDED We usually have to wait till June and bus, bike or train down to the Loop to see great free performances but, thanks to the Chicago Human Rhythm Project"that mighty advocate o…
CONDITIONAL LOVE AND EARLY DEATH The perils of parenting are center stage in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's truth-teller. British playwright Rory Kinnear's strangely named The Herd (…
Ashford mixes presentationalism with realism, musical theater with opera and takes a chance on an artist with no theatrical resume to design the sets. It all comes together to make this 70-y…
American Theater Company's docutheatre piece 'The Project(s)' takes up residence at the intersection of poverty, race and real estate.
CAROUSEL COMES TO LYRIC OPERA Lyric Opera of Chicago's stunning new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel opens tonight and runs through May 3, 2015 at the Civic Opera House in Ch…
BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE Six symbolic lives get ruthlessly entangled in this blast from the past. The world is pre-independent Virginia circa 1676 and the outcome is today in Marcus Gardley'sÃ…
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Show Clips: CAROUSEL Starring Laura Osnes & Steven Pasquale at Lyric Opera of Chicago Laura Osnes & Steven Pasquale headline the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. From: Broadwaycom V…
Lyric Opera of Chicago's stunning new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel begins tonight, April 10, and continues through May 3 at the Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Dr., Chica…
Lyric Opera of Chicago's stunning new production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel begins tonight, April 10, and continues through May 3 at the Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Dr., Chica…
In case you are worried about false advertising, the opening number of "Murder Ballad," currently receiving its Chicago premiere courtesy of Bailiwick Chicago, confirms that you are, in fact…
Giordano Dance Chicago brings an eclectic program to the Edison Theatre
Lyric Opera of Chicago's new production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Carousel is presented April 10-May 3.
A GOOD BÊTE Even though it's written in mostly rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, David Hirson's 1991 play, La Bête, is by far the least avant-garde presentation at Trap Door I h…
Thirteen world premieres will be presented at the second annual Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, June 30-July 19, ... The post 13 world premieres comprise Chicago Musical Theatre Fest…
Friday | "An Issue of Blood": Playwright Marcus Gardley tackles issues of race and class in his new play "An Issue of Blood," which is set in 1676, Virginia. Through May 3 at Victory Gardens…
Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb was born April 8, 1928, 87 years ago today.
MY FAIR SONGBIRD They were the proverbial strange bedfellows who forged a classic Vegas act. The template for Sonny and Cher, they also held a mirror up to a misfit marriage. But Louis &#…