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There are plenty of ways to celebrate New Year's Eve; you could watch the ball drop on TV with family, you could be packed in a bar drinking champagne with strangers or you could be partying…
Approximately 500 high school and college students recorded themselves delivering lines from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in 15 seconds or less using Instagram.
Soul Theatre, is proud to announce the one-woman play, Blasted Fool: Hamlet, Hope and the Madness in Our Blood, playing at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave., Dec. 19 " Jan. 5, 20…
"Oh Hell!" marks a departure from December theater conventions.Â
RECOMMENDED "I am not David Sedaris," Mitchell Fain notifies his audience at the start of "The Santaland Diaries," the stage adaptation of the famed author's popular holiday essay. Fain then…
ASHES TO THEATER Now moving from Andersonville to Lakeview, the best production of 2011 is back to rival any currently playing: No longer sprawling the width of the Neo Futurarium's stretche…
The lethal Iroquois Theatre blaze might seem an unlikely impetus for a story told by clowns through a vaudevillian smorgasbord of acrobatics, slapstick, aerial stunts, lip synching and Chris…
From My Seat in the House -Â By: Â Mari Lyn Henry Mrs. Bateman, the daughter of an actor, was probably used to seeing the old comedies of Congreve, Sheridan and...The post "Self: …
Haven Theatre Chicago follows their hit run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch with The Wedding Singer, October 13 " November 17, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Based on the 1998 romantic co…
WIT DOESN’T HOLD BACK Years back, Oldsmobile released a new line of sporty, sleek cars with the tagline “This is NOT your father’s Oldsmobile.” For those who asso…
Audiences are to be given a glimpse into the minds of children in Action Port Theatre's new show.
Theater Wit and Chicago’s own Nora Dunn, actress, comedienne and writer, have announced that Dunn’s premiere of her one-woman show, Mythical Proportions, has been extended by …
Come in your finest vintage or vintage-inspired attire to Wit's Endâ„¢ and dance and drink Prohibition era cocktails and end the summer in style with live hot jazz from The Red Hook Ramb…
RECOMMENDED "I love Hollywood. Of course I do…" declares Nora Dunn's opening character, a gregarious eighty-seven-year-old Hollywood type discussing her behind-the-scenes involvement in th…
Intimately and instantly familiar monologues performed in character are Nora Dunn's artistic signature. Like the poems she wrote for her demanding dad, her unstoppable need to make-believe h…
Having reached the point where I have written over a dozen musicals, music and lyrics for many other projects, and countless stand"alone songs in diverse styles, it is perhaps not surprising…
A GREAT PLAY (BASED ON SOMETHING) Though little happens and nothing is resolved in the Pulitzer-nominated Thom Pain (based on nothing), the play is oddly and intensely captivating. Will Eno'…
A deep sense of symmetry hovered over Cyndi Lauper's concert at the Beacon Theater in New York City on Wednesday. The star is precisely double the age she was when first shot to fame.
Playwright Will Eno penned an intellectualized, existentialist crisis aftermath. Under the direction of Jeremy Wechsler, the monologue is tailored perfectly for Lance Baker. With Baker's ste…
Haven Theatre Chicago is proud to present the company's inaugural production, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, July 5 " August 11, at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, w…
Kokandy Productions proudly presents the musical “The Last Five Years”, August 2 through 25 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. Traditionally, “The Last Five Years&#…
EXQUISITE SHARDS OF GLASS Never has the title of Tennessee Williams' early masterpiece, The Glass Menagerie, been so thoroughly embraced by the set designer. Grant Sabin takes the name of th…
THEATER REVIEWS: "The Miss Neo Pageant" at the Neo-Futurarium ★★★½ and "Lear" by Red Tape Theatre ★★½
NINA METZ reviews "The Miss Neo Pageant" at the Neo…
With enough imagination you can make a puppet out of anything " a kitchen whisk, steel shoe trees, even a leather belt. That's the chief fascination of "The Amazing and Marvelous Cabinets of…
In which Spooky Action Theater’s production of OPTIMISM! and its bow to the great Voltaire  inspires Hunter Styles to let loose his inner poet. —————&#…
