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...
Review: In ‘Caroline, or Change’ on Broadway, a Louisiana maid confronts both the times and her life
Tony Kushner, the author of "Caroline, or Change," was examining the sociopolitical intersection of racism...
In Chicago, the musical ‘Paradise Square’ nears its big pre-Broadway opening in a changed world
Producer Garth Drabinsky sweeps his hand across a recording studio in Midtown Manhattan. "You see...
Almost half of Chicago’s small performing arts organizations have yet to return to in-person performances, according to Donnelley Foundation survey
Since Illinois has reopened from the pandemic lockdown in 2020, normalcy is one thing that...
Review: E. Faye Butler shows us a fuller side of ‘Fannie’ indoors at the Goodman Theatre
After two extraordinary fresh-air performances in both Chicago and Washington, D.C., the remarkable E. Faye...
Melissa Gilbert joins ‘When Harry Met Rehab’ cast; Frank Ferrante reprises Groucho
The new commercial production of "When Harry Met Rehab" by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz...
For Afrofuturist Weekend at Elastic Arts, musicians, performers and other artists all ask, what’s next?
What does an Afrofuturist world look like? That is the question at the heart of...
Former Redmoon Theater leader Jim Lasko has a new project: Guild Row, a coworking campus in Avondale with artful aspirations
Sitting not far away from where the former Riverview Park once thrilled the citizens of...
Steppenwolf Theatre names its new theater and center after major donors
Steppenwolf Theatre Company announces Thursday that its new, in-the-round theater and education center will be...
Review: ‘Othello’ at Court Theatre has all the chill of the last year, packed into a Shakespeare tragedy
When theater historians seek to know the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts...
Review: At ‘Recipe for Disaster’ by Windy City Playhouse, chaos engulfs a Rick Bayless kitchen
"Recipe for Disaster," the new dinner-theater show in the basement of the revamped Petterino's Loop...