Lyric Opera’s 2025-26 season includes ‘Madama Butterfly’ and Billy Corgan revisiting ‘Mellon Collie’
Next fall will open with "Medea" and include a world premiere based on the Smashing Pumpkins album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness."
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With a major new donation, the MCA will ramp up live performance in its theater
Thanks to a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art says it plans to greatly expand its live performance offerings in its 300-seat Edlis Neeson...
Review: ‘Jonathan Larson Project’ is an off-Broadway chance to hear lost songs of the ‘Rent’ composer
Now playing in an East Village theater in New York, this musical revue lets fans of the composer make some new discoveries.
Victory Gardens Theater will reopen with a new David Mamet play and starry cast
The Mamet play "Henry Johnson" will be directed by Eddie Torres, starring Keith Kupferer and the TV actor Thomas Gibson, with Dennis Začek as an executive producer.
Margie Korshak, silver-haired publicist and Chicago’s connection to the stars, dies at 86
Days before her death, she was honored with a birthday luncheon where she spoke of a life in promoting entertainment and working with legends like Cameron Mackintosh and Barbra Streisand....
Review: ‘A Lie of the Mind’ is a Chicago-style treatment of Sam Shepard’s most difficult play
Raven Theatre's production may take an overly literal approach at times, but it does not hold back.
Goodman Theatre’s big 100th season: David Byrne, an ‘Office’ star and the return of Robert Falls
The theater has announced its hugely ambitious 2025-26 season, which will also include a pre-Broadway premiere starring Megan Mullally and a musical by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.
Review: ‘Waitress’ at the Paramount Theatre is a charming show with songs you’ll remember
Since 2016, the Sara Bareilles songs like "She Used to Be Mine" and "When He Sees Me" have become staples of cabarets, auditions and YouTube videos.
Review: ‘Cygnus’ at Gift Theatre is a ‘Succession’ writer’s powerful evocation of trauma and recovery
The excellent Angela Morris stars as a traumatized young woman who believes she has a guardian angel, wings and all.
Review: ‘Clue’ at the CIBC Theatre hasn’t much of one
Clue, or Cluedo in the country of its birth, is one of the best board games of all time. Colonel Mustard, Mrs. Peacock and Professor Plum have been brandishing their...