Broadway In Chicago presents the the world premiere of AMAZING GRACE, the new musical with music and lyrics byChristopher Smith and a book by Christopher Smith andArthur Giron, directed by G…
Drury Lane Theatre will present Camelot directed by Alan Souza – with casting including Broadway's Ken Clark (Titanic) as King Arthur and Christy Altomare (Mamma Mia!) as Guene…
Aside from being a hugely entertaining and strikingly emotional show, "The Art of Falling," Second City's not-to-be-missed new collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, is a very sign…
Grammy and Tony Award-winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik will make his debut at Chicago's City Winery (1200 W. Randolph) Oct. 30 at 8 PM.
Broadway In Chicago is pleased to announce that the Pre-Broadway World Premiere engagement of Amazing Grace, the new musical with music and lyrics by Christopher Smith and a book by Christop…
LEAPS AND LAUGHS: A STRANGE AMALGAM It's a worthy experiment, even if the eclectic results seem maddeningly inconclusive. For three more performances, two very different Chicago arts troupes…
A DREAM WITHIN A DANCE Borrowed from the Pennsylvania Ballet, Joffrey Ballet's latest offering (running through Oct. 26 at the Auditorium Theatre) is not your usual Swan Lake. Not to be comp…
RECOMMENDED It was a happy coincidence that I happened to catch Theatre de la Ville's "Ionesco Suite" within a day of seeing Strawdog Theatre's production of "Fail/Safe." Both shows traffic …
"Are you going to Ionesco?" said the French woman in the Navy Pier elevator Wednesday night, a sharp question that set me off thinking about whether Ionesco could ever really be said to be a…
STEALING CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE The Submission is a devious, double-edged title for Jeff Talbott's equally transgressive play. It refers both to the cold (as in out-of-nowhere) entry of a scr…
Steppenwolf for Young Adults SYA presents the first production of its 201415 season, George Orwell's Animal Farm, a world premiere adaptation by Althos Low. Directed by SYA Artistic and Educ…
Friday | "The Anyway Cabaret (an animal cabaret)": This world premiere from TUTA blends folk-rock music and stylized storytelling. But these singing animals are not recommended for children …
I just got through the first weekend of the 50th edition of the Chicago International Film Festival and I'm pleased to report that everything is running like a well-oiled, gently-humming mac…
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon received the Production-Musical large tier honor at the Chicago-area Jeff Awards, which were presented Oct…
A CONFESSION ABOUT SWEENEY TODD Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been four days since my last confession. I saw Porchlight Music Theatre's production of Sweeney Todd at Stage 773……
The 46th Annual Jeff Awards ceremony honoring excellence in professional theatre produced within the immediate Chicago area is tonight, October 13 at Drury Lane Oakbrook, 100 Drury Lane, Oak…
Cocktails named after some of the show stopping musical numbers from the smash Broadway musical CHICAGO greeted the cast, crew, and guests at a post-performance party at Marti's, a bistro in…
MISSING MECHE Although Nobel Prize-winning writer Vargas Llosa is known primarily as a novelist, he has also written nine plays spanning a period of sixty years. La Chunga,written in 1986, i…
The Goodman Theatre's revised staging of the Broadway classic Brigadoon and the Drury Lane staging of Les Misérables lead the nominations for the 2013-14 Equity Jeff Award…
TWILIGHT IN TIVOLI Following their productions of Brecht's The Mother and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, venturesome Oracle Theatre brings us another thespian rarity. This fall's find is Gore …
Audiences react to the first preview performances of new musical AMAZING GRACE
. The four-year-old Bailiwick Chicago has added LaChiusa's Wild Party to the list of little-seen, but exceedingly worthy, musicals it has lovingly performed for Chicago audiences.
One of the happier consequences of the recent uptick in the quantity and quality of off-Loop musical theater is that a very capable but often pigeonholed director and choreographer like Bren…
Nathan Allen, Artistic Director of The House Theatre of Chicago in Chicago, IL hopes to build a national presence and stronger community for their company and for smaller theater companies…