Hannibal Buress is a triple-threat talent, making waves in stand-up comedy, television and film. But for his homecoming gig at the Chicago Theatre he'll be doing what he loves best. "I like …
Route 66 Theatre Company has announced its 2015-16 season will include three Chicago premieres and a new world premiere developed through the inaugural play workshop.
Drummer from Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio returns to his roots.
The Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC) of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will once again salute a leader in cinematic artistry when it honors two-time Academy Award® nomine…
ON THE HORNS OF HISTORY Imagine history as a roller coaster–more specifically, Oscar Wide's masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest transmogrified into cerebral vaudeville. E…
Matchmaking and dating expert Stef Safran will host a "Love IQ: Modern-Day Matchmaking" Q&A following the performance of the smash hit musical FIRST DATE at the Royal George Cabaret,…
GOOD BOOKS? The world premiere production of a new play about the Bible by Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson, The Good Book is impressive, complex, informative, and entertaining, perhaps even p…
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Acording to the Chicago Tribune, theatre legend Stephen Sondheim will receive Chicago Public Library Foundation's 16th Carl Sandburg Award. As a part of the ceremony on October 21, 2015, Son…
Broadway In Chicago and Emerald City Theatre are thrilled to announce FANCY NANCY THE MUSICAL, based on the bestselling book series by Jane O'Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasse…
They can't do it alone! Paige Davis and Amra-Faye Wright will return to the Broadway revival of Chicago beginning March 30. Davis will reprise her performance as Roxie Hart (which she fi…
IN DEED HE DOESN’T Will Eno's 2012 solo script, now in a Midwest premiere, represents quite a departure (almost a repudiation) of Lookingglass Theatre Company's vintage style. Here be …
Chicago's new headliner Paige Davis takes on seven questions about the '20s starlets, The Windy City and Roxie Hart.
MALE DISBONDING Friendship tests us in ways we never signed up for: Plays about it task us by making us measure what we would do when the characters' choices come too close for comfort…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater has announced its 2015-16 season. Included in the new season line-up are a musical re-imagining of The Tempest featuring music by To…
Continuing in a tradition of storytelling and music, Hershey Felder announces the star cast for the Chicago stage premiere of Academy Award winning director Taylor Hackford's LOUIS AND KEELY…
Chicago's Griffin Theatre Company will present Conor McPherson's The Birds, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's short story, which was the basis for the classic Alfred Hitchcock fi…
Broadway's latest merry murderess, Carly Hughes, has had a huge year, jumping seamlessly from Beautiful, to Pippin and Chicago in a matter of months. Below, Broadway's new It Girl chats with…
UNLEASHING THE BEAST River North Dance Chicago (RNDC) is blasting into The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University as part of the "Made in Chicago" Series on Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 7…
In the Chicago theater, a paucity of financial resources is often a point of pride, even part of the town's aesthetic. But it's also a reason to complain. In the minds of some theater artist…
The 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare will be commemorated worldwide in 2016, ... The post ‘Little Mermaid,’ ‘Othello,’ part of the eclectic mix f…
The magician directs the production with playwright Aaron Posner.
Artistic director Barbara Gaines will present her exploration of Shakespeare' history plays in 2016, plus the Q Brothers' hip-hop 'Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Tempest' from Aaron Posner ma…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater announced its 2015-16 season on Wednesday.Â
Never Say Never! One of the world’s top-selling artists can take her album name and apply it to her next big adventure! It’s been a while since Chicago on Broadway as rocked by a…