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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...

Adrienne Warren starred in "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical" on Broadway at the the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

‘Jagged Little Pill’ leads Tony Award nominations with 15, honoring shortened season on Broadway

By Chris Jones

October 15, 2020 at 12:29 p.m.

"Moulin Rouge! The Musical," the ebullient jukebox musical derived from the feverish celluloid imagination of...

Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit, and ensemble, during a performance of the musical "Moulin Rouge!" at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway in New York.

2020 Tony Award nominations

By Doug George

October 15, 2020 at 12:05 p.m.

Nominations for the 2020 Tony Awards were announced Oct. 15 on the Tony Awards YouTube...

"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts talks with former "Cosby Show" actor Geoffrey Owens during an interview in 2018, in New York. Owens said he was thankful for the support he received after photos of him working at a grocery store showed up on news sites.

Column: For actors and other arts professionals, the healthcare safety net has been ripped to pieces

By Chris Jones

October 15, 2020 at 1:30 a.m.

The health care and retirement systems by which performing artists sustain themselves have fallen apart...

Lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and his wife Sybil Sever attend the premiere for "Les Miserables" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, in New York Monday, Dec, 10, 2012.

Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Les Miserables, dead at 95

By Associated Press

October 14, 2020 at 2:56 p.m.

Herbert Kretzmer, the journalist and lyricist best known for his English-language adaptation of the musical...

Brian Stokes Mitchell, this year’s Sarah Siddons winner, talks about his coronavirus bout, his viral video and our essential arts

By Chris Jones

October 14, 2020 at 6:32 a.m.

Most every night in April, just after New Yorkers had clapped and banged their pots...

Review: ’45 Plays for America’s First Ladies’ by the Neo-Futurists is about an impossible role in an unofficial job

By Chris Jones

October 15, 2020 at 12:26 p.m.

What is the first lady of the United States of America? Definition is not easy,...

Artistic director Nathan Allen during a rehearsal of the musical "Verboten" on Jan. 6 at House Theatre of Chicago.

Nathan Allen leaves House Theatre of Chicago after nearly 20 years as leader

By Chris Jones

October 12, 2020 at 11:32 a.m.

Nathan Allen, the founding artistic director of the House Theatre of Chicago and its principal...

Chicago actor Bradley Mott, in costume as the Cowardly Lion, signs a program for a young fan after a performance of "The Wizard of Oz" at Navy Pier's Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2002.

Bradley Mott, a big man of the Chicago theater who scored huge laughs, has died at 64

By Chris Jones

October 11, 2020 at 5:20 p.m.

In Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserable soul, marvels at the kindness...

Orson Wells narrating "The War of the Worlds" in 1938 over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The program, done live as a Halloween episode for the series Mercury Theatre on the Air, became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though that panic has since been disputed.

8 Chicago theater shows for Halloween, starting with a ‘War of the Worlds’ designed for the dark

By Doug George

October 11, 2020 at 11:10 a.m.

Let's try this out for a little Halloween 2020 atmospherics — you're in a room,...

Theater-goers watch as Kay Kron performs with a puppet during "The Beatrix Potter Drive-In Theatre Experience."

Review: At Chicago Children’s Theatre’s ‘Beatrix Potter Drive-In,’ the pint-sized people in the back seat get their due

By Chris Jones

October 11, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

For all her tattle, Mrs. Tittlemouse knew not of the coronavirus pivot. Peter Rabbit was...