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Review: ‘Don Giovanni’ at Lyric Opera delivers a blast of Robert Falls’ operatic past
Director Robert Falls' signature maximalism is still with us, I am happy to report, even...
Review: Never flashy, ‘4000 Miles’ by A Short Leap Theatre lets the humanity come through
In Amy Herzog’s 2011 play, a troubled 21-year-old man shows up at his grandmother’s Manhattan...
Harry Potter wizardry returns to stage at York High School
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – High School Edition” will be staged at 7:30...
‘Frozen’ opens soon at the Paramount Theatre — fans will spot the little differences between movie and musical
The Disney title will play through the holidays and into January in Aurora, the longest...
Review: RSC’s ‘Pericles’ at Chicago Shakespeare gives a late Shakespeare play new intensity
This powerful play about tyrants and heroes is now in a not-to-be-missed production from the...
Review: Remy Bumppo’s ‘Dear Elizabeth’ fits a world of human connection between pages of letters
Sarah Ruhl's enthralling play is about the decades-long friendship between the 20th century poets Elizabeth...
Review: It’s hard to hear the young love in this Broadway ‘Romeo + Juliet’
While the two leads are sincere, the show itself is (a) altogether too much of...
Review: The first national tour of ‘Some Like It Hot’ has lively retro jazz music
But the story plays it overly safe in this musical adaptation of the 1959 Billy...
Review: At Chicago Children’s Theatre, ‘Milo Imagines the World’ has a young audience right there with him
Oh, the pleasures of watching a kid's show accompanied by a school group. I was...
Review: ‘Left on Tenth’ on Broadway is a simple story about late-in-life romance
As penned by Delia Ephron from her memoir, it stars Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher...
With ‘Pericles,’ the Royal Shakespeare Company and Chicago Shakes begin a new transatlantic collaboration
RSC co-artistic director Tamara Harvey spoke to the Tribune about the two companies' plans and...
Review: ‘Inheritance’ by Factory Theater is about brothers on an ominous fishing expedition
In the Factory Theater’s new play “Inheritance -or- Brothers from the Deep,” ensemble member and...