You know what we’ve always been saying Broadway needs more of? Octogenarians doing the Running Man. Lucky for us, the new musical Gotta Dance will premiere in Chicago this year an…
Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke announced today that Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the critically acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name, will have its pre-Broadway W…
Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke announced Feb. 9 that Gotta Dance, a new musical based on the acclaimed 2008 documentary of the same name, will make its pre-Broadway world p…
Chicago is getting another pre-Broadway tryout: "Gotta Dance," a new musical based on a 2008 Dori Berinstein documentary about the New Jersey Nets' hip-hop dance team made up of senior citiz…
Broadway In Chicago, The Nederlander Organization and Estefan Enterprises, Inc have announced that tickets for ON YOUR FEET, a new musical based on the life story of seven-time GRAMMY winni…
IT'S ALL FOR THE WORST…IN A GOOD WAY With his typical topsy-turvy perversity, Charles Francis Addams might have been happy had the 2009 musical inspired by his sardonic New Yorke…
RECOMMENDED Just a forewarning: if you are looking for the Chicago featured on marketing postcards and glossy travel guides, you will not find it at Chicago Slam Works' "Redlined." There wil…
SHOWBIZ CHICAGO SOCIAL SCENE: Broadway In Chicago’s FIRST WIVES CLUB PRESS LAUNCH from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Showbiz Chicago’s Christopher Vega gives us an inside look from t…
ELEVATING THE SUBWAY There's a very specific springboard for Redlined: A Chicago Lyric, 75 minutes of slam protest poetry: It's the elevated transit line that runs through the Windy City's N…
Michael Weber, artistic director of Chicago's Porchlight Music Theatre, has announced the company's 2015-16 mainstage season, which will comprise four musicals, includin…
John O'Hurley is one of those actors who everyone seems to recognize. The veteran character actor has been a fixture on TV for more than three decades, finding his breakout role as J. Peterm…
On February 3, Chicago Dramatists announced that long-time Artistic Director Russ Tutterow was stepping down. Tutterow has held the role for thirty years and helped shepherd hundreds of new …
Porchlight Music Theatre presents the second production in its 20th Anniversary Season of Sondheim, the Chicago premiere of Sondheim on Sondheim, beginning tonight, February 6, and running t…
Country stars have a trigger-happy history on the Great White Way.
Continuing its 20th Anniversary Season of Sondheim, Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Chicago premiere of Sondheim on Sondheim, the musical exploration of the life and work of the award&…
Churchill, a new play adapted and performed by Ronald Keaton, begins previews Feb. 6 at New World Stages. The show enjoyed an acclaimed and sold-out, world-premiere engagement in Chi…
BroadwayWorld Chicago was on hand to meet the cast and creative team of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB, set to begin its pre-Broadway world premiere at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental…
The Chicago Flamenco Festival 2015, running Feb. 6-March 7, promises to be the best way to counter winter. The post Chicago Flamenco Festival ready to be set in motion appeared first on Chic…
The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) presents musician, artist, and founding member of band Sonic Youth Kim Gordon on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre (3733 N Southport …
TITS AND ASSHOLES Gay activists who deride this delight forget just how radical the musical was in 1983 (the original film even more so in 1973). A third of a century later, it's still a mer…
TUESDAY | "Sondheim on Sondheim": This multimedia concert, staged by Porchlight Music Theatre, recalls composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim's life and work. Through March 15 at Stage 773, 1225…
The Alan Zachary-Michael Weiner musical comedy First Date, which played a five-month Broadway run in 2013, begins its Chicago premiere Feb. 5 at the Royal George Cabaret.
SHOWBIZ NATION LIVE! Interview with DEB CLAPP, Executive Director of The League of Chicago Theatre from SHOWBIZ CHICAGO on Vimeo. Deb Capp, Executive Director of the League of Chicago Theatr…
Amanda Marcheschi looked like a Rachel. Definitely Aniston-esque. She had dark, longish hair and a self-possession that cracked slightly when she spoke, revealing a touch of uncertainty. She…
Click for photos from the first performance of new Chicago stars Jennifer Nettles and Carly Hughes on February 3, 2015 at the Ambassador Theatre.