When I first started reviewing Chicago theater " some years ago now " the commercial suburban theaters that ringed the city seemed like aberrations and relics of a former era. Places like th…
This Monday, February 2, the company of the Tony Award-winning hit musical CHICAGO will welcome a new 'scintillating sinner' to the cellblock, as Broadway star Carly Hughes makes her debut i…
Is it hot in here, or is it just Carly Hughes? The Pippin and Beautiful alum is taking the stand beginning February 2 in the hit Broadway musical Chicago, and if these new promo photos are a…
BECKETT'S RIDDLE CONTINUES TO CONFOUND Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not an easy play to write about, let alone produce, act, or even watch. It's challenging, opaque, and ambiguous. …
The huge blizzard on the East Coast prevented Anna Shapiro from making it to the celebration of the life of the late Sheldon Patinkin that took place Monday night at the North Shore Center …
"Shirt Off My Back," choreographer Ray Mercer's new work for Giordano Dance Chicago, grew out of a conversation about relationships he had with friends in the cast of "The Lion King," the Br…
Chicago-based actress and writer Sandra Delgado has been named one of four recipients of 2015 Joyce Awards designed to support collaborations between artists of color and leading arts and cu…
It's no ordinary cast!  Dozens of competitors bid for roles in a professionally produced stage production of the Tony Award-winning musical WONDERFUL TOWN at Bailiwick Chicago…
PASSIONLESS PRONOUNCEMENTS Freud's enduring question persists: "What do women want?" Gina Gionfriddo's aggressively hip drama, now in an equally frenetic staging by Kimberly Senior, offers a…
Hart & Soul: Backstage at "Chicago" with Jennifer Nettles, Episode 1: Warming Up
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It's Jennifer Nettles' first backstage vlog at Chicago and she's just getting warmed up with her last week of rehearsals before starting her run as Roxie Hart in the Tony-winning…
WHEN IN ROME, DO AS THE ROMANS DO (NOT THE BRITISH) With Puccini's Tosca, Lyric Opera has done one update too many this season. Don Giovanni was bumped up 300+ years in time to the 1920s, Ca…
Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park, 200 North Columbus Drive, offers the opportunity to treat your Valentine all month long during its Winter Romance celebration, now through March 1, 201…
CHICAGO, which opened to rave reviews on November 14, 1996, now has the distinction of beingthe longest running American musical and the second longest running show in Broadway history. CHIC…
The national touring production of the hit musical "Chicago" heading to the Hippodrome Theatre in March will feature John O'Hurley -- a.k.a. J. Peterman on "Seinfeld" -- as the sneaky lawyer…
Love is heating up the cold Chicago air this Valentine's Day at Le Méridien Chicago " Oakbrook Center, 2100 Spring Road in Oak Brook, Illinois, with three special packages. Chosen by Chicag…
On Sunday, January 25, Broadway’s hit musical Chicago welcomed Drama Desk Award nominee Alexander Gemignani in a limited return engagement as Billy Flynn through Friday, March 13. Gemi…
RECOMMENDED Winter can be rough for parents and their children. Snow and cold and sniffles lock them inside for weeks or months, with only intermittent sledding sessions or the occasional pi…
Though Aaron Holland's new play claims inspiration from Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," it really is a straight-up (well, sort of) bildungsroman about a young gay black man finding his true n…
February 27th through March 22nd 2015, The Runaways Lab Theatre Company will present their production of “Faust: Part 1″ by Johann Von Goethe in 19 different secret locations acr…
THE JUICY APPLES' SLICE OF LOVE You can't keep an eloquent family down. TimeLine Theatre Company's concurrent productions of election-night episodes from Richard Nelson's Apple Family Plays …
RECOMMENDED Covetousness, fueled by ambition and greed, drives the plot of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth," where Scotland's political system is upended twice, with murder the tool to power,…
ACTION SNAPSHOTS IN AN APPLE HARVEST Commissioned by New York's Public Theatre, the four-part saga Apple Family Plays by the prolific Richard Nelson is a remarkable effort to preserve the pr…
