87 stories by "Brian Hieggelke"
Chicago is seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or dance.
Lots of family-friendly fare for December, and that's not even including the million or so Christmas plays.
Lots of singing along in November, but also profound sorrow. It sounds like an election month.
Start the month with a monstrously huge star of Broadway, end the month with a monster story.
We're finally getting to see a couple productions postponed during the pandemic, plus an ever-expanding Destinos festival.
The big guns of theater and opera are all out this September.
August is a great month for some light theatrical entertainment. Like, um, King Lear.
From Hedwig to Hobbits, July is a British Invasion in theater.
You might think of this month as "bookended."
May starts off with a big-budget pre-Broadway show and ends with a shoestring-budget fringe festival.
April is for August Wilson.
Classics, riffs on classics, and Broadway's hottest playwright hit Chicago stages in March.
February is a month of debuts"new artistic directors, new spaces and world premieres.
As the curtain rises on 2024, whether we're in the front row or the balcony, we are trepidatious. If anything uplifts the performing-arts realm of Chicago to a thriving state, it's the talen…
It's an especially star-studded January on and off Chicago stages.
No one compares to Jasmine Amy Rogers, who is Betty Boop, from the voice to the mannerisms to the can-do spirit tempered by vulnerability. And can she dance and sing? Yes.Â
Here's five shows with nary a, um, Shrek of Christmas in them. If you want a holiday show, you know where to find it.
A lot of musical fun and a little bit of darkness fill November stages.
Louis Armstrong completely filled the world he lived in. He was a one-of-a-kind singer and trumpet player. But it was his life as a cultural star, whose story tracks big movements of the twe…
Two plays featuring seven women each and a gender-swapped Sondheim give October feminist flavor.
The fall season kicks off with some laughs, some music and some heavy themes about America, race and capitalism.
Fall festivals in comedy and Latino theater? Boop-Oop-a-Doop!
Big musicals, star comedians and a show on the beach: summer's last dance.
Shakespeare outdoors, or Pinter and more in the theater.
"Don't Quit Your Daydream" is one of the most consistently funny shows"maybe the funniest"I've ever seen on The Second City's stage.
