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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...

The Second City comedy theater in Chicago on Oct. 29, 2020. The 60-year-old Second City comedy theater is at a crossroads after allegations of racism leveled on social media in the wake of George Floyd's death prompted some leadership resignations. Meanwhile, the Chicago location has been closed for months because of the coronavirus.

Second City will reopen with live shows in May

By Chris Jones

March 18, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.

Second City, one of Chicago's most storied entertainment options and an economic mainstay of its...

Column: Ken-Matt Martin is new artistic director at Victory Gardens. He is just one of a new group of Black arts leaders coming to Chicago.

By Chris Jones

March 17, 2021 at 11:02 a.m.

On Wednesday, Victory Gardens Theater announced that it has hired Ken-Matt Martin, currently an associate...

Aerialist Elena Gatilova performs during a preview performance for Teatro ZinZanni's "Love, Chaos and Dinner" in Chicago at the Cambria Hotel.

Will the dinner circus Teatro ZinZanni be the first big indoor show to return to downtown Chicago?

By Chris Jones

March 17, 2021 at 7:23 a.m.

Teatro ZinZanni, the dinner-circus-vaudeville attraction located in the Cambria Hotel in Chicago's downtown theater district,...

Water People Theater announces online international Latino theater festival with livestream performances

By Hannah Herrera Greenspan

March 12, 2021 at 4:26 p.m.

Chicago's Water People Theater announces "FIT 2.0? (Festival Internacional de Teatro Latino), an online international...

Review: ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ by Steppenwolf Theatre seems to travel inside Meghan’s head as she makes a fateful decision

By Chris Jones

March 11, 2021 at 4:15 p.m.

When Steppenwolf slated Vivian J.O. Barnes' "Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!" for its virtual "Steppenwolf NOW" season,...

Ample seating space across the lobby from Drury Lane Theatre's main entrance in Oakbrook.

‘You’re not getting married today’: Kyle DeSantis on shuttering his family’s Drury Lane enterprise

By Chris Jones

March 11, 2021 at 8:42 a.m.

Producer Kyle DeSantis is president and CEO of Drury Lane Theatre & Events in Oakbrook...

Goodman Theatre opens the vaults and offers a new chance to see ‘Smokefall.’ Grab it.

By Chris Jones

March 10, 2021 at 7:30 a.m.

In 2013, I fell hard for a new play called "Smokefall" by the Michigan-raised writer...

This image released by Netflix shows Anya Taylor-Joy in a scene from "The Queen's Gambit." Taylor-Joy accepted the award for best actress in a television motion picture at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. (Phil Bray/Netflix via AP)

‘The Queen’s Gambit’ getting turned into stage musical

By Brent Lang

March 8, 2021 at 12:05 p.m.

"The Queen's Gambit," the story of a chess prodigy that was streaming smash for Netflix,...

The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2017. The theater, closed by the pandemic, will reopen in October with "As You Like It" with Beatles music.

Chicago Shakespeare and Drury Lane Theatre announce live shows for fall

By Chris Jones

March 5, 2021 at 11:47 a.m.

With confidence growing in a return to live theater this fall, two Chicago companies have...

Ed Judge, a dentist who chose tending bar at Petterino’s instead, is dead at 55

By Chris Jones

March 5, 2021 at 10:42 a.m.

If you were an exhausted actor straight from the dressing room, Ed Judge would know...