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Eddie Weaver and cast in "A Strange Loop" at Raven Theatre in a co-production with About Face. (Joe Mazza)

Review: ‘A Strange Loop’ at Raven Theatre is very off-Loop, and breathtakingly good

By Chris Jones

October 15, 2026 at 12:45 p.m.

Michael R. Jackson's musical won the Pulitzer and Tony Awards, but it's just now being...

Highland Park native Marina Franklin, who has TV and film credits, including HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” is one of the headliners at the Funny is Female Comedy Festival, Oct. 22-25, at Comedy Plex in Oak Park. (Ashley Chappell)

‘Now there’s a girls’ club’: Funny is Female fest draws 50 comedians to Oak Park

By Myrna Petlicki

October 15, 2026 at 10:20 a.m.

More than 50 comics from around the country will be performing at the Funny is...

Ferdinand (Lawrence Grimm) and Will (Lenin Izquierdo) in "Any Rebellion of Will" at Trap Door Theatre. (George Hudson)

Review: ‘Any Rebellion of Will’ is an absurdist breath of fresh air at Trap Door Theatre

By Chris Jones

October 14, 2026 at 1:24 p.m.

This world premiere, penned by S.L. Daniels and accurately billed as a dark, absurdist comedy...

Will Liverman (center) and company in the world premiere production of "Factotum" by Lyric Opera of Chicago at the Harris Theater.

Review: ‘The Factotum’ by Lyric Opera is a loving testament to Chicago’s South Side

By Chris Jones

February 9, 2023 at 4:42 p.m.

Safe to say that a phrase like "LeBron is the G.O.A.T., man, and here are...

Patrons take their seats for a performance of "And Neither Have I Wings to Fly" at the Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook on Feb. 1, 2023. The play is First Folio Theatre's final production.

Photos: Oak Brook’s First Folio Theatre to close

By John J. Kim

February 6, 2023 at 2:05 p.m.

After more than 25 years in residence at the historic Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak...

Isabelle Muthiah, Kianna Rose and Simran Deokule in "Radial Gradient" by Shattered Globe Theatre at Theater Wit.

Review: ‘Radial Gradient’ by Shattered Globe an insider look at Northwestern sororities

By Chris Jones

February 4, 2023 at 10:39 a.m.

If the talented young women who created "Radiant Gradient," the fascinatingly caustic new show on...

Alexander Gemignani, Heidi Kettenring, Ayana Strutz and Lucy Godinez in "Big Fish," presented through March 19 at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire.

Review: ‘Big Fish’ at Marriott Theatre promises eternal life but needs to more believe in itself

By Chris Jones

February 3, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

Commercially successful theater usually promises audiences immortality. The message likely will be hidden by metaphor,...

Patrick O'Keefe, Josiah Haugen, Kevin Webb, Ryan Stajmiger and Christopher Johnson in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" by Kokandy Productions.

2023 Non-Equity Jeff Award nominations: Theo Ubique and Kokandy’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ lead the way

By Chris Jones

January 31, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

The nominations are in for the most recent season of theater productions by Chicago's non-union...

Rob Lindley and Hamid Dehghani in "Andy Warhol in Iran" at Northlight Theatre.

Review: ‘Andy Warhol in Iran’ imagines that the famous pop artist encountered an Iranian revolutionary

By Chris Jones

January 31, 2023 at 5:15 a.m.

By 1976, the mercenarily brilliant artist Andy Warhol had figured out there was bacon to...

Heathcliff (Liam Tamne), surrounded by the Moors (Jordan Laviniere, Steph Archer and Ricard Castro) in Wise Children's Wuthering Heights, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, presented as part of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's WorldStage Series, January 27–February 19, 2023.

Review: Finally, international theater returns with epic ‘Wuthering Heights’ at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

By Chris Jones

January 30, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

"Out on the wily, windy moors," sang Kate Bush, "we'd roll and fall in green."...

Heidi Stober and company in "Hansel and Gretel" at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Review: An evocative ‘Hansel and Gretel’ at Lyric Opera that leads us into the woods

By Chris Jones

January 27, 2023 at 5:30 a.m.

Engelbert Humperdinck's music for "Hansel and Gretel" is such an eclectic and cinematic composition that...

Tim Rater, president and CEO of the Paramount Theatre in Aurora.

Column: Paramount Theatre in Aurora now country’s largest subscription-based theater

By Denise Crosby

January 26, 2023 at 5:35 p.m.

Jim Corti can still vividly recall turning onto Galena Boulevard in downtown Aurora that autumn...

Hubbard Street Dance Company's incoming choreographer-in-residence Aszure Barton, center, is with artistic director Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell inside the Hubbard Street Dance studio in Chicago on Jan. 11, 2023.

Aszure Barton will be Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s next resident choreographer

By Lauren Warnecke

January 26, 2023 at 11:09 a.m.

Internationally renowned Canadian American choreographer Aszure Barton will be Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's next artist-in-residence....