I've been derailed from posting on the films I've seen at the Chicago International Film Festival by a major customer proposal I've been working on in my day job. But rest assured though tha…
Saturday | "The Hundred Flowers Project": A group of actors tries to create a play about Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in this show from Silk Road Rising. Through Nov. 23 at Historic Chic…
WHERE BLACK BOX EQUALS COFFIN Just in time for Halloween, The Chicago Mammals are performing their All Girl Edgar Allan Poe. Apart from the original source material, most everything about th…
Broadway In Chicago opened the the world premiere of AMAZING GRACE last night, the new musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron, di…
The romantic and richly textured tale of East versus West, THE KING AND I, comes to The Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, IL., previewing tonight, October 22, opening Octobe…
Andrew Ramcharan Guilarte and Heidi Kettenring co-star in the Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, which begins performances Oct. 22.
RECOMMENDED The headlining piece in Giordano's fall program is a commission from Broadway and television choreographer Ray Leeper. Leeper makes commercial dances for music videos and TV danc…
GRACEFULLY AMAZING John Newton (1725-1807) was many things: a slave trader, a sailor and a clergyman. Yet today he is chiefly remembered as the author of "Amazing Grace," perhaps the most we…
Bailiwick's revival of Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party succeeds in doing what a great party should do - you leave exhilarated, excited, and more than a little exhausted. Director-chor…
Broadway In Chicago opened the the world premiere of AMAZING GRACE last night, the new musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron, di…
Should the mice in "Frederick," the rather sweet new musical at the Chicago Children's Theatre, ever decide to turn tail and move to Chicago, they will be ahead of the civic game.
Star of the new musical based on the fascinating life of 'Amazing Grace' composer John Newton, Josh Young, discusses the Chicago tryout of the production in a new interview.
The world premiere of the Broadway-bound new musical Amazing Grace officially opened Oct. 19 at 6 PM following previews that began Oct. 9 at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre.
It's been a while since a serious, period epic of redemption amid political turmoil formed the basis of a large-scale original musical, and for that reason alone this Broadway tryout in Chic…
Broadway In Chicago presents the the world premiere of AMAZING GRACE, the new musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith and Arthur Giron, directed by…
Can a new musical be 'pre-Broadway' without having a New York theater booked, or without even announcing a timetable for said booking How about a musical largely penned by a previously unkno…
IN SOME WAYS, THIS PARADE PASSED ITSELFÂ BY First performed in Chicago by Bailiwick Repertory, now dutifully revived by BoHo Theatre, the potentially pile-driving Parade by bookwriter Alfr…
Following Lunchbox Theatrical Productions' confirmation of CHICAGO The Musical's strictly limited run from December 3rd to the 21st in Manila--first hinted on BroadwyWorld.com BWW four mont…
THE FARM-TO-FABLE REVOLUTION IS HERE One of the most extraordinary things about George Orwell's novels is their prophetic power; they are perhaps even more relevant now than when he wrote th…
Broadway in Chicago's world premiere of the Broadway-bound new musical Amazing Grace officially opens Oct. 19 at 6 PM following previews that began Oct. 9 at Chicago’s Bank…
This is the first time these venerable Chicago cultural treasures have co-created an entire show, and they blend together beautifully. The six Second City actors bring the comedy through ske…
A new, intimate version of the Tony Award-winning musical Titanic, which dramatizes the maiden voyage of the ill-fated luxury liner, plays Chicago's Griffin Theatre Company begin…
