Review: ‘A Strange Loop’ at Raven Theatre is very off-Loop, and breathtakingly good
Michael R. Jackson's musical won the Pulitzer and Tony Awards, but it's just now being...
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‘Now there’s a girls’ club’: Funny is Female fest draws 50 comedians to Oak Park
More than 50 comics from around the country will be performing at the Funny is...
Review: ‘Any Rebellion of Will’ is an absurdist breath of fresh air at Trap Door Theatre
This world premiere, penned by S.L. Daniels and accurately billed as a dark, absurdist comedy...
Author and American Writers Festival presenter Natalie Moore has a new play on abortion rights, debuting in Chicago
Natalie Moore is appearing at the American Writers Festival on May 15 in conversation with...
Review: Northlight Theatre’s ‘Intimate Apparel’ does this lovely play about a Black seamstress proud
Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel," a beautiful play about a young Black seamstress struggling to make...
Review: ‘At the Vanishing Point’ at Gift Theatre explores how the past and present are linked by memory
Playwright Naomi Iizuka mines the metaphorical connections between photography and memory in "At the Vanishing...
Mike Birbiglia, currently doing a show at Steppenwolf, will fill in as guest host on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
Mike Birbiglia has some schedule juggling to do — he's filling in as guest host...
Review: A stunner of a lead performance in ‘Spring Awakening’ by Porchlight Music Theatre
I first saw "Spring Awakening," the Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater musical about adults failing...
Review: ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ depends on its Helen, finding love amid death — she succeeds mightily at Chicago Shakespeare
Of all the women in Shakespeare, Helen in "All's Well That Ends Well" is perhaps...
Review: On Broadway, Daniel Craig gets trapped in a ‘Macbeth’ without a clear plan
Whether it's the humblest high-school production or a starry Broadway affair with an actor best...
Author, disability activist and actor Susan Nussbaum dies, after a career of pushing boundaries
In person, on stage or on the page, Susan Nussbaum was a delight, a ferociously...
Review: ‘Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool’ is the comedian smiling through middle age at Steppenwolf Theatre
I last saw the comedic storyteller Mike Birbiglia in 2012. He was at the Victory...
Review: The Joffrey brings ‘Of Mice and Men’ to the ballet stage in a world premiere; plus Balanchine’s ‘Serenade’
"But first, a school." Words mythically attributed to Georgiy Balanchivadze — George Balanchine — upon...