Renee Fleming has taken her time bringing one of her most celebrated operatic roles, Countess Madeleine in Richard Strauss' "Capriccio," to the company for which she serves as creative consu…
Redmoon Theater's attempt to celebrate the Great Chicago Fire on the Chicago River Saturday fizzled when the houses it had built on boats wouldn't light. No floating inferno. No spectacle. T…
AN ALL YOU CAN ETTA BUFFET A Black Ensemble Theater hit in 2005, At Last: A Tribute to Etta James is back in (the pleasure of) business. It's also updated to reflect the last decade of "The …
PUZZLING THROUGH THE CRYPTOGRAM IS WORTH THE EFFORT The title alone should have been clue enough that this was going to be a difficult play, but nothing could have prepared me for the lack o…
Starting today, the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse’s hit musical Chicago is pleased to welcome back celebrated Broadway baby Amy Spa…
This fall, the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's hit musical CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back celebrated Broadway baby Amy Spanger in the…
Amy Spanger begins her first of three limited engagements in the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse's Chicago Oct. 6.
Broadway baby Amy Spanger is back raking in the chips! She return to the long-running revival of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre on October 6 in the first of three limited engagements. Thi…
WINNING SMALL Still potent after 42 years, Caryl Churchill's corrosive class comedy Owners pits two outlooks on life against each other. In one corner you have Churchill's now-patented "top …
Anyone who has suffered the ignominy of a fire pit, a backyard full of guests and a pile of soggy wood could only empathize with Redmoon on Saturday night.
RED, WHITE AND PAS DE BLEU Marking the 125th anniversary of Chicago's glorious and historic Auditorium Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, which used to come here every season, is all too brie…
SMOKEFALL GETS IN YOUR EYES It opened a year ago in Goodman's smaller Owen Theatre. Due to rave reviews and popular demand, it's now the fall opener in the larger Albert enclave. Clearly, No…
In our latest video, Chicago star Christopher Fitzgerald talks switching from Amos to Billy Flynn, playing Glinda in Wicked and bringing the all-male Forum to NYC.
A VANDAL OF AN ENDING Thirty-something actor and writer Hamish Linklater's The Vandal is one of those plays that starts well and ends poorly. It begins with a middle-aged woman waiting at a …
The Great Chicago Fire will blaze again Oct. 4 when Chicago's Redmoon Theatre, known for its large-scale, site-specific productions, recreates the historic event in an unpreceden…
A WHISTLEBLOWER'S CONVENIENT SUICIDE Urgent, cinematic, and breathlessly intense in everything but its intermission, TimeLine Theatre Company's true-life exposé of a truth-teller and his ma…
Redmoon, Chicago's 24-year-old theater company known for "Spectacle Art" and free summertime community performances, partners with the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Sp…
RECOMMENDED When I tell you that the House Theatre's newest show is a theatrical adaptation of "Moby Dick" that is also about a theater company attempting to put on a theatrical adaptation o…
By Sean Kelley In the world of American acting, fame and fortune are to be found on the coasts in Los Angeles and New York. However, many of America's most successful actors and comedians co…
Producing Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside and American Blues Theater, Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, are proud to announce the casts for the 2015 productions of S…
It is the first day of October, and other than wondering truly where the year had gone (it seemed just like yesterday that we were calling the Polar Vortex the worst thing that had happened …
A Radiohead musical is on its way to Chicago's Tympanic Theatre Company. A companion piece to Tympanic's critically-acclaimed play festival, Deliver Us From Nowhere-itself drawn from Bruce S…
