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Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at Chicago Shakespeare is a straightforward, bite-sized bit of Disney
Despite my quibbles with the production, this bite-sized “Beauty and the Beast” is a good candidate to help youngsters catch the theater bug.
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Review: Jeff Perry is the intense center of Harold Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land’ at Steppenwolf Theatre
The audience at my performance was well aware it was sitting in a great Chicago theater, listening to the words of one of the greatest playwrights ever born.
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Review: Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is focus of artfully inventive ‘Here Lies Love’ on Broadway
The new show at the Broadway Theatre is as artful as it is radically inventive: Think Imelda as a needy, up-from-the-sticks Evita and you won’t be far wrong.
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Chicago Shakespeare hires Edward Hall, a celebrated director from London, as its new artistic director
The theater also announced the hiring of Kimberly Motes as its new executive director.
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Austin Pendleton drops out of Steppenwolf’s ‘No Man’s Land’
The Chicago actor Mark Ulrich has taken over the role of Spooner.
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7 outdoor theater options for summer 2023: Shakespeare dominates under the stars
This list, with stops in Chicago and just beyond, should help those looking to experience theater in a way only summer can provide.
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Up and Coming Theatre Company showcases ‘Fame’
Up and Coming Theatre Company and Elgin Summer Theatre present the musical “Fame” July 14-23.
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Review: ‘A Distinct Society’ at Writers Theatre is set in a library straddling the Canadian border
The playwright and director has a terrific setting and concept for a great play, but not yet that play.
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Teatro ZinZanni will return to Chicago in the fall
This follows news last month that the current dinner-and-cirque production Cabaret ZaZou was closing.
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Review: In ‘The 39 Steps’ at Drury Lane Theatre, a worthy cast tries to untangle Hitchcock
The joke in this parody whodunit is the impossibility of the actors' collective task.
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Review: ‘Lane Call: A Night of Closing’ at Factory Theater is a throwback to the heyday of discount retail
The nostalgic workplace comedy captures the absurdities of working at a Midwestern discount department store chain.
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Review: ‘Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’ at the Marriott is an enjoyable way to keep these songs alive
Fans get a surround-sound concert of an artist who recorded so much in so short a time.
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Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ actor, dies at 89
Alan Arkin, the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in comedy and drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died. He was 89.
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Lookingglass Theatre will pause shows, lay off much of its staff
The theater has seen audiences drop away in recent months, artistic director Heidi Stillman said.
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Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ by Blank Theatre is an enchanting storefront journey to Sondheim
What better show is there for a ]young non-Equity Chicago theater company than Stephen Sondheim’s backwards-moving musical of artistic dreams?
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Review: An intensely rebooted ‘Tommy’ explodes with life on the Goodman Theatre stage
This new version of the 1969 album is truly a ready-for-prime-time stunner with enough assets to bring its Chicago audience to its feet.
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Review: In ‘Another Marriage’ at Steppenwolf Theatre, can a relationship survive celebrity fame?
Writers write what they know, and it seems reasonable to assume that Kate Arrington is drawing from her relationship with movie star Michael Shannon.
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Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ lyricist, dies at 99
Sheldon Harnick went on to collaborate with Michel Legrand on “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” in 1979 and a musical of “A Christmas Carol” in 1981
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Review: ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ on Broadway: Britney Spears songs in an ill-shaped musical
There is nothing in the plot to make you even remotely look forward to Act 2.
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Review: ‘Passing Strange’ at Theo Ubique is still finding this autobiographical show’s heart
Viewed now, this musical feels prescient. You can see it now in Evanston.