Review: ‘Dead Girl’s Quinceañera’ at Goodman Theatre turns an apparent abduction into a teenage caper
Phanésia Pharel's new play has a lively cast of adults playing teenagers, and is not...
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Chicago Theater Report: John C. Reilly is back in Chicago, Baby heads to Broadway and how to get into the Uptown Theatre
The national tour of “Dirty Dancing” in Chicago last month turned out to be a...
Review: M.A.D.D. Rhythms hoofers from past and present shine, despite technical challenges
M.A.D.D. Rhythms co-founders Bril Barrett and Martin “Tre” Dumas III performed some of the finest...
Review: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ arrives in Chicago with an amazing young singer in the Alicia Keys role
This semi-autobiographical jukebox musical of Alicia Keys songs has arrived in Chicago with a remarkable...
Alicia Keys talks about her fiery life, her musical ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ and her family in Chicago
Her semi-autobiographical Broadway musical is now on a North American tour that will bring it...
Tony Adler, a Chicago critic, writer and Walt Whitman devotee, dies at 71
He was a longtime critic for the Chicago Reader and contributed frequently to the Tribune....
La Grange Area Teen Theater Ensemble presents C.S. Lewis’ ‘The Screwtape Letters’
The La Grange Area Teen Theater Ensemble’s winter production will be based on C.S. Lewis’...
Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ gets a modern update in Hinsdale Central production
Hinsdale Central High School's production of “Mac Beth,” is an adaptation of the tragedy “Macbeth,”...
Review: The sweet parts of ‘Superior Donuts’ are in the conversations behind the counter
The unlikely friendship between a shop owner and the young man he hires is at...
Review: ‘As You Like It’ at Writers Theatre is a Shakespeare musical with a lot to say
Collaborators Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery created this adaptation for Central Park in 2022; it's...
Review: Kristin Chenoweth stars as a very human ‘Queen of Versailles’ in a Broadway musical that skips the moralizing
A whopping Broadway show called "The Queen of Versailles" needs a resplendent monarch reigning at its...
Review: Chicago Repertory Ballet’s ‘The Capulets’ imagines what the others in ‘Romeo & Juliet’ were doing
When Shakespeare wrote his tale of star-crossed lovers, he didn’t say much about what everybody...
Review: In Joffrey’s ‘Matters of the Heart,’ Frida Kahlo meets a meet-cute
The double bill by choreographers Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Chanel DaSilva includes “Broken Wings,” inspired...