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...
Column: College football this fall is a cruel joke and a staggering failure on the part of America’s universities
When the news broke Monday morning that the University of Michigan football team planned to...
Column: Michael Riedel’s latest book ‘Singular Sensation’ is about Broadway in the ’90s — the decade when the Great White Way took on a life of its own
In his revelatory first book about Broadway in the 1970s and '80s, "Razzle Dazzle," the...
Second City hires Jon Carr as new executive producer
Second City said Wednesday that it has hired a new executive producer: Jon Carr, a...
Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Walkie Talkies podcasts gets families away from their screens, into the city’s neighborhoods to learn and explore
Chicago's 77 neighborhoods may seem like a lot to explore, but we've got nothing but...
In memory of Congo Square’s Samuel Roberson, a major new annual gift for Chicago playwrights of color
When Samuel G. Roberson died in 2017 at the age of 34, Chicago theater lost...
Review: American Blues Theater’s ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is the don’t-miss show this lonely holiday season
"Turn on your cameras," say the cast of "It's a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!"...
Review: In Porchlight’s ‘New Faces Sing Broadway,’ 10 talented newcomers have the gorgeous, empty Studebaker as a stage
More than ever, youth is an asset in the theater. But imagine being a relatively...
Column: In an extraordinary letter, Chicago’s Newberry Library delves into its own past support of racially restrictive covenants
Race and real-estate are inextricably linked in Chicago. So when the august Newberry Library opened...
Pictures: “Van Gogh Alive” at the Dali Museum
"Van Gogh Alive" brings new life to more than 3,000 images of works by the...
The same holiday show will stream in Chicago, Kansas and Montana — a pandemic-era lesson from Trader Joe’s?
In 2019, a Chicago producer and live-event specialist named Denise McGowan Tracy staged a self-authored...