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...
Steppenwolf’s ‘The Minutes’ suffers an epic Broadway postponement
When Broadway closed down due to the pandemic on March 12, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company...
Review: ‘What is Left, Burns’ from Steppenwolf is a short, gripping video play about a professor and his former lover
One coping strategy here in the belly of the pandemic is to reach out to...
Joffrey Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ is part of an Art on theMart video projection — and draws a COVID-weary crowd looking for a holiday show
The Loop's historic theaters are closed. The Christkindlmarket is to be depressingly virtual, being as...
Rising in a pandemic: Steppenwolf’s new theater campus is a $54 million bet on returning to normalcy
In March of last year, Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre officially announced its campus expansion: a new...
Pride Films and Plays faces fresh turmoil as new artistic director resigns
In July, Pride Films and Plays, a nonprofit theater company that operates two small venues...
Drury Lane is a big winner at the virtual 2020 Jeff Awards; Court Theatre wins for ‘King Hedley II’
The Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, a longstanding family business mostly shuttered by the...
Column: How do you celebrate in the middle of a pandemic? A dog and a man outside in Chicago, wondering what they are seeing.
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Review: Interrobang Theatre’s ‘The Spin’ is a wickedly satirical Zoom world wrapped in the Zoom world on your own computer
If you buy a ticket to the world premiere from Chicago's Interrobang Theatre Project and...
Second City at a crossroads: Now is the time for the Chicago comedy powerhouse to reinvent itself
Once called the Harvard of comedy, Second City is at a crossroads. The company's ownership...
Reinventing Second City: After charges of institutional racism and ongoing leadership changes, how the Chicago comedy powerhouse is trying to move forward
Once called the Harvard of comedy, Second City is at a crossroads. The company's ownership...