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Tony Adler in San Miguel, Mexico, in March 2025. Adler was a longtime arts writer and critic in Chicago. (Beth Herman Adler)

Tony Adler, a Chicago critic, writer and Walt Whitman devotee, dies at 71

November 11, 2025 at 10:46 p.m.

He was a longtime critic for the Chicago Reader and contributed frequently to the Tribune. He was also a Walt Whitman devotee, hosting a yearly event with his wife that...

Andrea San Miguel, Phoebe Gonzalez and Benjamin Mathew in "As You Like It" at Writers Theatre in Glencoe. (Jenn Udoni)

Review: ‘As You Like It’ at Writers Theatre is a Shakespeare musical with a lot to say

November 10, 2025 at 3:21 p.m.

Collaborators Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery created this adaptation for Central Park in 2022; it's now at Writers Theatre in Glencoe.

Kristin Chenoweth and cast in "The Queen of Versailles" on Broadway at the St. James Theatre in New York. (Julieta Cervantes)

Review: Kristin Chenoweth stars as a very human ‘Queen of Versailles’ in a Broadway musical that skips the moralizing

November 9, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.

A whopping Broadway show called "The Queen of Versailles" needs a resplendent monarch reigning at its heart, played with great sincerity by Kristin Chenoweth.

Chicago magician Walter King Jr., aka The Spellbinder, performs "Diary of a Black Illusionist" at the Magic Lounge. (Sarah Elizabeth Larson)

Review: The Spellbinder has Wednesday night crowds under his spell at the Magic Lounge

November 5, 2025 at 5:15 a.m.

Walter King Jr.'s show, titled "Diary of a Black Illusionist," is both classic retro and very current and cool.

Olivia Lindsay and Todd Wojcik in "Blackbird" by The New Theatre Project at the Servi-Sure factory in Chicago's Bowmanville neighborhood. (George Hudson)

Review: David Harrower’s intense, difficult ‘Blackbird’ is now taking place in an actual cramped, drab break room

November 5, 2025 at 12:48 p.m.

"Blackbird" reunites a man and the woman he abused when she was 12, some 15 years later. It does not make excuses for sexual abuse, even if it explores the...

Camille Robles, Quinn Kelsey and the company of "Cavalleria rusticana," in the operatic double feature "Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci" by Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: Lyric’s ‘Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci’ is an old-school opera double bill

November 3, 2025 at 10:12 a.m.

Two 90-minute operas with the same directors give some one-hit wonders a grand if occasionally formal double bill.

Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock in "Little Bear Ridge Road" on Broadway at the Booth Theatre in New York. (Julieta Cervantes)

Review: In ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ on Broadway, Laurie Metcalf shows us a woman so alone on that couch

January 23, 2026 at 5:03 p.m.

Her expressiveness in what her character cannot say has only deepened since this play's Chicago production at Steppenwolf.

Betsy Aidem, Kristolyn Lloyd, Irene Sofia Lucio, Adina Verson, Audrey Corsa and Susannah Flood in "Liberation" at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York. (Little Fang)

Review: ‘Liberation’ on Broadway is brave enough to ask, what does feminism mean?

October 28, 2025 at 9:00 p.m.

Bess Wohl's fascinating and superbly acted Broadway play is entirely frank that this is the playwright asking question after question about her mom's generation.

Laura Bell Bundy, Kara Lindsay and cast of "Romy & Michele: The Musical" at Stage 42 in New York. (Valerie Terranova)

Review: ‘Romy & Michele: The Musical’ off-Broadway is like the worst class reunion ever

October 28, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.

How did this off-Broadway musical based on the fun 1997 movie go so wrong?

Ava Lane Stovall, David Moreland and cast in "Jekyll & Hyde" by Kokandy Productions in its original production in the Chopin Theatre. (Evan Hanover)

Review: Thrilling new talent emerges in ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ by Kokandy Productions

October 27, 2025 at 2:19 p.m.

There are few things more exciting than watching a young talent on the level of Ava Lane Stovall, who plays Lucy.

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