Review: The musical ‘Fun Home’ holds cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s memories up to the light
A revival by Porchlight Music Theatre is directed by Stephen Schellhardt, who played the father in a previous local production.
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Joyce Piven, co-founder of the influential Piven Theatre and mother of Jeremy Piven, dies at 94
Together with her husband Byrne Piven, the Piven Theatre Workshop trained the likes of John and Joan Cusack and for decades put on professional theater productions in Evanston.
Review: ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ at Chicago Shakes is a warm invitation into the immigrant experience
This story set in a hair salon allows us to meet a wide variety of characters, all well-cast here on Navy Pier.
Review: The best part of this ‘Uncle Vanya’ is the cast, not the staging in a factory
Director Spencer Huffman has created a new site-specific play in a Bowmanville factory. The reason for the venue is less clear this time.
Review: In the musical ‘Shucked,’ who needs a story when you have jokes like these?
The Broadway musical, now in its first national tour, has a big heart and enough one-liners to win over even the most corn-resistant.
Chicago Shakespeare will have the pre-Broadway premiere of ’42 Balloons’ musical
The critically acclaimed musical, coming from England, will play on Navy Pier this summer and is expected to then go on to Broadway.
Top 10 theater for winter 2025: Helen Hunt, old-school Steppenwolf and the return of the Lookingglass Theatre
Noteworthy shows opening in the next few months include "Betrayal" at the Goodman, "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" on Navy Pier and "Waitress" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
The farm-to-fable musical ‘Shucked’ has arrived in Chicago — a show about sweetcorn?
Talking to writer Robert Horn and director Jack O’Brien about an unlikely new Broadway title that has found fans across the country.
Top 10 Broadway shows of 2024: ‘Tommy,’ powerful plays and a sizzling ‘Sunset Blvd.’
This last year was busy on Broadway, with new musicals and several impressive plays featuring ensemble casts. As always, the best shows asked the fundamental questions of human existence and...
Review: In ‘Gypsy’ on Broadway, Audra McDonald is transformational and tragically human as Rose
Madam Rose is known for her powerhouse belt and for being the scariest Bad Showbiz Mother of the Year, but not for moving an audience to tears. Audra McDonald, surely...