Chicago Theater Report: ‘Purpose’ returns, new Broadway shows in town and dinner with Basil Fawlty
New shows have been announced for an already busy fall and early 2027. If you...
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Column: Can some Second City alums make Oklahoma City the new Hollywood?
"Drive Through Fire" is the latest movie project from Jim Carlson and Kate Duffy, two...
Funny you should ask: Chicago scientist says humor makes for better researchers
Letonia Copeland-Hardin is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago and also a stand-up...
Review: ‘How I Learned What I Learned’ by Congo Square is about the life and work of August Wilson
Now at the Broadway Playhouse, Harry Lennix stars as the playwright in the years leading...
Review: ‘The Heart of Rock and Roll’ on Broadway is a funny, warm-hearted Huey Lewis jukebox show
With '80s hits by Huey Lewis and the News and some really funny lines, this...
Review: ‘Patriots’ on Broadway is a gripping, juicy drama about Vladimir Putin
“Patriots” offers up a potted history of Russia from the 1990s, the era of bumbling...
Review: Broadway’s ‘Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club’ turns the Berlin nightclub into a weird, dystopian party
Some folks who should have known better have let the so-called interactive craze go to...
Review: Second City NYC opens with ‘Ruthless Acts of Kindness’ in a theater still finding its way
NEW YORK — A Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich is on the menu at Second City's...
Conductor Andrew Davis, music director emeritus of Lyric Opera, dies at 80
He was singularly popular among the Lyric musicians with whom he worked and who perhaps...
Review: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on Broadway is Alicia Keys’ lively New York coming-of-age story
There are no surprises in the mother-daughter narrative, to be sure, but you get Key's...
Review: ‘Stereophonic,’ about a band under pressure, is a Broadway show not to be missed
A fictional British group is making a studio album in California between the summers of...
Review: ‘Suffs’ on Broadway explores the history of women’s suffrage in the United States
In the end, “Suffs” does what all of the best Broadway musicals do: it humanizes,...
Review: Alvin Ailey Dance Theater gets us ‘in our feelings’ with a mixtape of artistry and legacy
If a hot girl summer was a dance, it might look something like Kyle Abraham’s...