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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...
Review: Nicole Scherzinger is devastating in a sultry new ‘Sunset Blvd.’ on Broadway
There's no more gilded cage for Norma in director Jamie Lloyd's red-hot, straight-from-London revival of...
Review: ‘Atonement’ by Joffrey Ballet a tale of passion and big questions — and is Marston’s finest ballet to date
Can a person make up for the harm they have caused? That's the question in...
No strings on me: What the Sugar Hole puppets have learned about human nature
The puppets are an experiment by Color Club in Irving Park. Beneath the googly eyes,...
Review: In ‘Jocey y Las Mariachis,’ a Mexican American artist shares both hopes and apprehensions
A self-described “girl with big feelings” who can’t afford therapy, she wrote a show instead....
Review: ‘Primary Trust’ is a quiet, moving play set mostly inside our storyteller’s head
Eboni Booth's Pulitzer Prize-winner is now at the Goodman Theatre with Namir Smallwood as Kenneth,...
Review: Magician Siegfried Tieber’s best trick is his deft touch with audiences
The Ecuadorian American magician and mentalist is a guest for the next couple of weeks...
‘Carnival of the Animals’ is a danced time capsule of the Jan. 6 insurrection and the political jungle of modern-day America
A lot has happened since Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Wendy Whelan and Francesca Harper agreed to...
Review: Which witch? ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ is a complicated new Sarah Ruhl play
The first Chicago production by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Linda Reiter as the descendent of...
Review: This ‘Our Town’ Broadway revival opens Thornton Wilder’s story up to everyone
One of director Kenny Leon’s distinctive gifts is his ability to take a canonical American...
Radio’s ‘Dizz’ Blackful busy ‘adding my own flavor’ to Park Forest venue
Former Bad Boy Radio DJ Victor Blackful is set to open his second season of...