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...
Dane Cook is at Hard Rock Casino this weekend. He says he can ‘finally exhale’ after 30 years as a comic.
Cook said he didn't always have an easy time of it in his early years....
Review: The Spellbinder has Wednesday night crowds under his spell at the Magic Lounge
Walter King Jr.'s show, titled "Diary of a Black Illusionist," is both classic retro and...
‘Amadeus’ opens soon at Steppenwolf, with plenty of Mozart’s music and none of the dustiness
Tony Award-winning director Robert Falls makes his Steppenwolf debut with the play about rival composers...
Review: David Harrower’s intense, difficult ‘Blackbird’ is now taking place in an actual cramped, drab break room
"Blackbird" reunites a man and the woman he abused when she was 12, some 15...
Review: Lyric’s ‘Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci’ is an old-school opera double bill
Two 90-minute operas with the same directors give some one-hit wonders a grand if occasionally...
Vintage Tribune: Goodman Theatre’s opening act was as a school for the dramatic arts
Old photos of the Goodman Theatre show contemporary plays and classics performed by young people...
Review: In ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ on Broadway, Laurie Metcalf shows us a woman so alone on that couch
Her expressiveness in what her character cannot say has only deepened since this play's Chicago...
‘Measure of a Man’ showcases Black Panther leader Fred Hampton’s Chicago legacy
In doing her research, playwright India Nicole Burton says she found that "I cannot not...
Review: ‘Liberation’ on Broadway is brave enough to ask, what does feminism mean?
Bess Wohl's fascinating and superbly acted Broadway play is entirely frank that this is the...
Review: ‘Romy & Michele: The Musical’ off-Broadway is like the worst class reunion ever
How did this off-Broadway musical based on the fun 1997 movie go so wrong?