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...
ComedySportz has been an online winner with its improv shows — and vows to stay ‘digital first’
In a conversation some days ago with Jason Geis, the artistic director of the Chicago...
Review: Scott Silven’s ‘Journey’ via Chicago Shakes creates the illusion we’re all connected — believe that one if you want
You might think you have interaction with actual humans on your Zoom or FaceTime calls,...
Column: A modest proposal for our democracy: Change those election night ‘magic walls’ on CNN and FOX
How, in the absence of any evidence whatsoever, did President Donald J. Trump persuade so...
This year’s Pegasus Young Playwrights Festival offers a window into the thoughts of Chicago teenagers
Each new year, the Pegasus Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival provides some insight into the feelings,...
For ‘Journey’ via Chicago Shakes, mentalist Scott Silven devises livestream show from his Scotland home
In Scotland at this chilly, gloomy time of year, dark comes early and a magician...
How 5 Chicago standup comics learned to stop worrying and love the Zoom
When the pandemic first closed comedy clubs many months ago and Zoom was in its...
Sidelined ‘Mean Girls’ musical won’t reopen on Broadway
Producers of the Broadway musical "Mean Girls" have decided not to restart when authorities allow...
Column: Year 2021 was supposed to be Chapter 1 of a hopeful story. Alas, the virus can’t read.
In the final days of 2020, the COVID-19 virus revealed the same disrespect for the...
Inception Project plays about a Haitian adoptee and a Mexican American home from prison will both be firsts at the Paramount Theatre
Not long ago, Lanise Antoine Shelley was in a health food store on the North...
‘Lazarus,’ the musical, made no sense. Then David Bowie died. Now you can see for yourself.
Look up here, man, I'm in danger I've got nothing left to lose I'm so...