Theater – Page 177 –

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...

David Rice during the Jeff Awards at the Drury Lane Theatre in 2018.

First Folio Theatre announces it will shut down in 2024

By Chris Jones

November 9, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.

First Folio Theatre, a longstanding Equity suburban theater company producing at the Mayslake Peabody Estate...

Review: ‘Pump Boys & Dinettes’ is Porchlight Music Theatre’s warm welcome return for its audiences. Pie, anyone?

By Jerald Pierce

November 7, 2021 at 10:36 a.m.

When the cast of "Pump Boys & Dinettes" bursts onto the stage with a blast...

Review: In ‘Remember This’ at Chicago Shakes, David Strathairn tells a devastating story of the man who warned the Allies of the Holocaust

By Chris Jones

November 5, 2021 at 10:35 a.m.

Why did the Allies not rise up against the Nazi massacre of millions of European...

Ying Fang as Pamina, left, and Brenton Ryan as Monostatos during a dress rehearsal of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at the Lyric Opera.

Review: At Lyric Opera of Chicago, ‘Magic Flute’ is a chilly Berlin import, with digital animation than can upstage the singers

By Chris Jones

November 4, 2021 at 1:39 p.m.

For many, the return to the opera house has been a risk willingly taken —...

Review: ‘The Last Pair of Earlies’ at Raven Theatre is set in Chicago and the South, exploring a marriage heading in different directions

By Jerald Pierce

November 2, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.

After playwright Antoinette Nwandu rewrote the ending of "Pass Over" in advance of its Broadway...

Steppenwolf Theatre is opening its new in-the-round theater and education center on an expanded campus on Halsted Street.

Steppenwolf Theatre’s new $54 million campus

By Contributed Content

November 2, 2021 at 3:16 p.m.

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new $54 million Liz and Eric Lefkofsky Arts and Education Center...

The atrium lobby outside the new Round Theater at Steppenwolf Theatre's new expanded campus.

Steppenwolf Theatre unveils its new, $54 million campus, and a plan to run the theater in an entirely new way

By Chris Jones

November 2, 2021 at 3:16 p.m.

On Tuesday morning, Chicago's illustrious Steppenwolf Theatre Company dedicated its new Liz and Eric Lefkofsky...

Review: Second City e.t.c. Stage has the talent and now just needs the material

By Chris Jones

October 31, 2021 at 1:07 p.m.

"Y'all can choose an ending for this next sketch," came the word from the stage,...

A "Ghosts on the Bloomingdale Trail" stop in Chicago on Oct. 28, 2021.

Take a walk on the Bloomingdale Trail this Halloween and Day of the Dead to hear some ghost stories from Chicago residents who lived them

By Darcel Rockett

October 29, 2021 at 10:17 a.m.

If one adds up the footprints in Chicago's buildings throughout the city's history — the...

Review: ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’ is back in Chicago, a welcome but brief return

By Chris Jones

October 29, 2021 at 12:30 p.m.

On Friday, March 6, 2020, the first national tour of Heidi Schreck's moving piece of...