DUEL NATURE In Trevor, recently produced by A Red Orchid Theatre, playwright Nick Jones delivered a sardonic and heavy-handed attack on dangerous animals kept as domestic pets. He wastes no …
A crisis on the water unfolds in Anne Walaszek's "Lamp Oil," presented by Duplicity Ensemble at the Ketchup-less Stage (aka the Gift Theatre). A sailor (Gabriel Franken), who has been left a…
The Chicago Fringe Festival turns 5 this year and is celebrating with nearly 50 performances scattered around the Jefferson Park neighborhood.
"Chicago Fire" stars Taylor Kinney and Jesse Spencer have been named grand marshals for the inaugural Great Chicago Fire Festival, the free spectacle of fire that takes place Oct. 4 on the C…
Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove have announced Manhattan Theatre Club will present the Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of AIRLINE HIGHWAY, the new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist, Lisa…
Broadway In Chicago has announced their upcoming 2015 Spring Season will go on sale to new subscribers on Sunday, September 7, 2014. Broadway In Chicago's 2015 Spring Season will include tw…
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre collective, already repped on Broadway with This is Our Youth, now in previews, will have a second Tony-eligible show this season when the Manhattan Theatre …
Casting has been announced for the North Shore Music Theatre's upcoming production of the Tony-winning John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical Chicago, which will play the …
REASONS TO BE CRITICAL Neil LaBute seems to have a penchant for ironic titles. His 2002 play The Mercy Seat was anything but merciful; LaBute described it as a "kind of emotional terrorism."…
YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME"AGAIN Chaim Potok's 1972 novel My Name is Asher Lev is a coming-of-age story that pits one passion against another. It depicts the declaration of independence by a youn…
Porchlight Music Theatre kicked off its 20th Anniversary season with a sold-out benefit concert, Chicago Sings Disney featuring the music created by the Walt Disney Studios, Monday, Aug. 25 …
From the minds of Chicago co-stars Jason Patrick Sands and Brian O'Brien comes the new Broadway web comedy series 'COVERS.' Directed by Tyler Maynard, 'COVERS' is a heightened-reality, chara…
BroadwayWorld's Natalie Weiss, of the hit show Breaking Down the Riffs, returns to Chicago for another solo show after playing to a sold out audience at the Chicago Center For Performing Art…
Wednesday | "The Coward": In Nick Jones' comedy from Stage Left Theatre, a young gent in the 18th century who has never been in a duel endeavors to initiate one. Through Oct. 5 at Theater Wi…
Chicago-bred actress Jessie Mueller, who received the 2014 Tony Award for best leading actress in a musical for "Beautiful " The Carole King Musical," but she has not lost touch with her roo…
The Tony Award winning Broadway star of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" is to return home--for one night only on September 22. In her first hometown performance since winning the 20…
A POWERFUL PLAY EVEN WITH A PLOT AS POINTLESS AS ITS PEOPLE With Ecstasy, now being revived at A Red Orchid Theatre, a new Chicago theater succeeds at first: Cole Theatre Company establishes…
THIS SHOW’S ON FIRE "Ich bin ein Biedermann" isn't what President Kennedy famously said in Berlin in 1963, but it's something playwright Max Frisch might have said while writing Herr B…
From the minds of Chicago co-stars Jason Patrick Sands and Brian O'Brien comes the new Broadway web comedy series 'COVERS.' Directed by Tyler Maynard, 'COVERS' is a heightened-reality, chara…
BREAKING BETTER He who laughs last laughs best"especially when you overcome an addiction to methamphetamine. So, after recovery, what do you do next? (And I don't mean Disneyland.) You turn …
THE SEAGULL AS AN ALBATROSS At over two hours, it's almost as long as its source. So it's a good thing that Stupid Fucking Bird is more than a parody or it would soon lose its welcome. Aaron…
Sex, murder, greed and corruption it's just a typical day on the job for the cast of Broadway's long-running hit CHICAGO. But as PIX-11 News anchor Tamsen Fadal reveals, for Sharon Moore, i…
A new, intimate version of the Tony Award-winning musical Titanic, which dramatizes the maiden voyage of the ill-fated luxury liner, will play Chicago's Griffin Theatre Company this fall…
Profiles Theatre opens its 26th season by presenting the Midwest premiere of Reasons to Be Happy, penned by resident artist Neil LaBute, beginning Aug. 22.
Of all the sectors of the arts and entertainment industry in Chicago, none has seen anything close to the level of explosive growth in 2014 enjoyed by the institutions that make people laugh.