Review: Dance Theatre of Harlem returns after 10 years with funky ‘Return’ and a ‘Firebird’ that transcends time
Robert Garland’s “Return” was a fitting opener in more ways than one. It marked the...
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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...
‘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...
Equity Jeff Award nominations are in for a shortened 2019-20 season, Drury Lane and Paramount lead the list
Drury Lane Theatre's resplendent revival of "An American in Paris" and Porchlight Music Theatre's hit...
Column: In Chicago, an artistic fall like no other. Yet, Godot will appear.
"Vladimir: I can't go on like this. Estragon: That's what you think." Samuel Beckett's two...
Will Chicago theaters redesign seating for the COVID-19 era? Not likely.
For those of you Chicago theater-goers who are wondering, no, the theaters of the future...
Hubbard Street Dance’s 2020-21 season begins with a Rena Butler premiere, filmed in Chicago parks
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago said Monday that its 43rd season will be composed of online...
Column: Comedy finds ways to persevere in Chicago for fall 2020. What else can we do but laugh?
Heard a good joke lately? Had a good laugh? Deprivation shadows the land and though...
Strawdog Theatre’s 2020-21 season will be 4 virtual plays, beginning soon with ‘The Four’
Strawdog Theatre Company, now an itinerant Chicago company after losing its space in Chicago's Northcenter...
Review: Richard Nelson wraps up his Apple trilogy on Zoom with ‘Incidental Moments of the Day.’ Aren’t they all?
Prior to watching Richard Nelson's "Incidental Moments of the Day," the final, 70-minute installment of...
‘Homeland Elegies’: Ayad Akhtar’s critique of the American immigrant experience enters the Trump era
Back in 2012, I interviewed Ayad Akhtar in front of a live audience at the...
Critic Ben Brantley leaves New York Times: ‘All I ever needed was the show and the chance to write about it’
Ben Brantley, the longtime chief theater critic of the New York Times, announced Thursday that...
The Neo-Futurists have created the most successful online shows of the pandemic
The sudden need for a coronavirus pivot has felled, or at least silenced, many great...