Review: ‘Dead Girl’s Quinceañera’ at Goodman Theatre turns an apparent abduction into a teenage caper
Phanésia Pharel's new play has a lively cast of adults playing teenagers, and is not...
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Chicago Theater Report: John C. Reilly is back in Chicago, Baby heads to Broadway and how to get into the Uptown Theatre
The national tour of “Dirty Dancing” in Chicago last month turned out to be a...
Review: M.A.D.D. Rhythms hoofers from past and present shine, despite technical challenges
M.A.D.D. Rhythms co-founders Bril Barrett and Martin “Tre” Dumas III performed some of the finest...
Review: ‘Going Bacharach’ at Apollo Theater is fabulous way to celebrate his songs
This is a sophisticated, don't miss experience with the songs of Burt Bacharach — "What...
Review: ‘Rocky Horror Show’ on Broadway is a show stuck in its own time warp
How to handle a musical that is no longer shocking, and an audience that wants...
Review: ‘Beaches’ musical reaches Broadway, well sung and proudly sentimental
The straightforward stage adaptation hews closely to the movie, “Wind Beneath My Wings" and all.
Six teens play 120 characters in new LATTE production of Alfred Hitchcock’s ’39 Steps’
La Grange Area Teen Theatre Ensemble’s spring play will be “39 Steps,” based on the...
Review: Court Theatre’s new musical about divorce feels at odds with itself
Somewhere deep in “Out Here” lies a moving new musical about the pain of divorce...
First-of-its-kind MCA exhibition plays the beat of Caribbean activism
"Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón" is a new exhibition at the Museum of...
Review: “‘night Mother” by Redtwist Theatre offers no respite from the darkness
In Marsha Norman’s unflinchingly bleak Pulitzer Prize winner, a daughter reveals to her mother her...
Review: In ‘The Balusters’ on Broadway, a mighty contest rises from porch railings
The Vernon Point Neighborhood Association may be an easy target, but the cast of David...
Review: Big tech and the damage done in tense ‘Job’ at Writers Theatre
Christopher Donahue and Rae Gray play a therapist and a young tech worker in Max...
Review: ’12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)’ is an abstract feminist riff on Shakespeare
In this retelling, Ophelia reemerges from the water into a neo-Elizabethan version of Appalachia, where...