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Known for their comedy work on TV, the two actors need only a bit of the Chicago Theatre stage to make intimate theater, off the cuff.
Director Wardell Julius Clark has assembled a cast who delivers first-rate performances emblematic of the smart, uncompromising production.
It would be hard to find a Chicago theater or art school that doesn't have some link to Winifred O'Reilly and the family she raised to love the arts.
This show based on earlier incarnations of "Cruel Intentions" should, to quote the poets of pop whose music it fails to do justice, go "Bye Bye Bye."
Making entertainment plans for the week ahead? We've got some suggestions for the whole family.
From comedy and drama to musicals and dance, Chicago's stages are alive with vibrant productions.
If the days wherein you could stage a play about race without a single person of color on stage aren't entirely over, they should be.
Caryl Churchill's play is science fiction, but every day, the "fiction" part of that seems to be fading just a little bit more.
The 87-year-old will become the third person to win a Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.
The show has as much to do with the Romanovs as Caesar salad has to do with Julius Caesar. That's precisely what you'd expect in family-friendly fare.
Tony Award-winner Lucas Hnath's "Dana H," will receive its world premiere this fall in the Owen Theatre.
You know the hits, and now you can learn the story of the life and times of the two men who created the iconic songs throughout the 1960s and '70s.
From live theater to music to museum exhibits, there's plenty to check out in the week ahead.
From comedy and drama to musicals and dance, Chicago's stages are alive with vibrant productions.
Read the play, and it's impressive but distant. Performed here, the language is urgent and real and consistently compelling.
Playwright Sharyn Rothstein's new work "Landladies," was inspired by her reading of Matthew Desmond's 2016 book "Evicted."
The production will debut at London's Royal Festival Hall this summer arriving in Chicago for performances Dec. 14-19 at the Lyric Opera House,
Their longrunning show at the Flamingo Hotel & Casino will close Nov. 16.
From comedy and musicals to drama and dance, Chicago's stages are a live with vibrant productions.
Also featured is the world premiere of "Dhaba on Devon Avenue" by Madhuri Shekar, directed by Chay Yew.
Set in Pennsylvania, and alternating between 2000 and 2008, Ron OJ Parson's staging of "Sweat" is as familiar as a decade's worth of headlines.
Corden previously hosted the televised awards ceremony in 2016.
The play takes an in-depth look at the 1979 recording session for "End of the Century," as well as the band and their relationship with Phil Spector.
Actress/director Seret Scott: "Theater and the arts in general can change lives, can change minds, can change the world."
The two tuneful shows join 'Oslo,' 'Mean Girls,' 'Once on This Island' and a Britney Spears premiere, all previously announced, in the 2019-20 season.
