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The company of "Aida" by Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Todd Rosenberg)

Review: In Lyric’s ‘Aida,’ love’s consequences become the story

March 14, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.

The most powerful moment comes not as the walls close in on the two doomed lovers, but when Amonasro admonishes Aida to "think of our suffering people. You are their only...

Steppenwolf Theatre's campus on Halsted Street in Chicago on Oct. 25, 2021.

Steppenwolf Theatre’s 2024-25 season includes ‘Noises Off’ (say what?) and the return of Amy Morton

March 14, 2024 at 7:24 p.m.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced its strikingly eclectic 2024-25 season, including the surely unpredictable pairing of former artistic director Anna D. Shapiro and Michael Frayn's British backstage farce "Noises Off,"...

Jennifer Morrison and cast in "The Penelopiad" at the Goodman Theatre. (Liz Lauren)

Review: ‘The Penelopiad’ at Goodman Theatre looks at ‘Odyssey’ through new eyes

March 12, 2024 at 4:21 p.m.

The theater's new artistic director, Susan Booth, has chosen to make her debut with this play by Margaret Atwood and she pulls out all the epic stops.

Anthony Freud, general director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2015. (Zbigniew Bzdak / baiduhai)

Lyric Opera announces 2024-25 season of classics, new works and celebrations

March 12, 2024 at 1:37 p.m.

This is the final slate to be announced by the retiring Anthony Freud, Lyric’s general director.

The Goodman Theatre in Dec. 2014 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Goodman Theatre’s house staff files petition to unionize

March 11, 2024 at 5:02 p.m.

The nonprofit theater employs a mix of paid house staff and volunteer ushers, as well as concession workers and box office employees.

Celeste Williams and Glenn Obrero in "Wipeout" by Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. (Jenn Udoni)

Review: In ‘Wipeout’ by Rivendell Theatre, riding the waves with a spirited older trio

March 12, 2024 at 9:54 a.m.

The appeal of Aurora Real de Asua's play is that it features characters whose points of view often are overlooked, all taking surfing lessons in California.

Amy Ryan (as Sister Aloysius) and Zoe Kazan (Sister James) in Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway production of "Doubt: A Parable" at the Todd Haimes Theatre in New York.

Review: ‘Doubt’ returns as a powerful parable on a much-changed Broadway

March 7, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.

John Patrick Shanley's play first arrived in 2004, near the zenith of the crisis over abusive priests hiding in plain sight in the Catholic Church.

A rendering of the new lobby in the entrance of Lookingglass Theatre at Water Tower Water Works in Chicago. (Provided by Lookingglass)

Lookingglass Theatre announces new artistic director, limited productions

March 7, 2024 at 2:01 p.m.

The theater on Michigan Avenue also is renovating its space and has announced plans to bring back winter and spring productions.

Vincent Jordan, Vu, Ben Izlar Jr and Ama Kuwonu in "The Time Machine: A Tribute to the '80s" at Black Ensemble Theater. (Darin Gladfelter)

Review: ‘The Time Machine’ has the audience dancing to the ’80s at Black Ensemble Theater

March 4, 2024 at 2:54 p.m.

To its great credit, this show, written and directed by Daryl D. Brooks, clearly was determined to offer a deep 1980s cut rather than getting stuck in the usual world...

The ensemble of the touring production of "Message in a Bottle," with choreography by Kate Prince. (Lynn Theisen)

Review: ‘Message in a Bottle’ at the Cadillac Palace builds a migrant narrative from songs by Sting

March 1, 2024 at 1:22 p.m.

The British choreographer Kate Prince and a company of astonishingly athletic dancers create a dance narrative from songs by Sting and The Police.

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