"Pippin" was a Broadway hit in 1972. Bob Fosse was the original Broadway director and choreographer. Being a seventies musical, "Pippin" is edgier and darker than the big 1940s musicals like…
"A Gallery of Dances" comprises short pieces and excerpts from Mariah Eastman dating back to her early work as a freelance choreographer, along with new short pieces commissioned from Mandy …
The eighty-minute play combines clowning, acrobatics, juggling and dance to tell a nuanced narrative.
"Iraq, But Funny" will join "The Arabian Nights" and "Metamorphoses" at the top of the Lookingglass canon. It is not to be missed.
A stand-in for not only the "Iliad" poet Homer but every other writer and translator who has stepped into the epic shoes of this tale, Timothy Edward Kane as the Poet must create a tour-de-f…
"Golden Leaf Ragtime Blues" is a warmhearted and funny play that celebrates both vaudeville and the possibility of friendship across cultural and generational divides.
Jeanine Tesori's opera "Blue" had its much-anticipated Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere last fall. Porchlight Music Theatre performed her Tony-Award-winning "Fun Home" last winter. And now Br…
"Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin" is a play concerned with what its title suggests: men bearing resemblance to one another and to a third, absent figure.
Lifeline's production takes on misinformation, a clueless media and the rejection of science"all worthy targets. But the death rays don't always land.
Is being the princess the worst job in England? Head over to Theo Ubique to find out.
In a historic debut at the Studebaker Theater, "She Who Dared" tells a story of pivotal figures who fought segregation alongside Rosa Parks.
Few ballet artists reach the pop status of household name. But if such a celebrity exists in our century it would be Christopher Wheeldon, one of the most sought-after choreographers in ball…
"Neighborhood Watch," a play in the style of a sitcom by Rehana Lew Mirza and directed by Kaiser Ahmed, explores what happens when two Muslim men move into a majority white Virginia suburb, …
"It's a continual practice that benefits myself and those around me, and it's rooted in love."
Martians, Pagliacci and Princess Diana land in Chicago as the days get longer.
Would you laugh in the face of the apocalypse?
For those in Chicago's dance, performance art, puppetry, experimental and cross-disciplinary performance worlds"pretty much any theater of the non-kitchen-sink variety"the name Links Hall ne…
Tim Meadows is bringing his magic to the stage of The Den Theatre on May 30-31 for three shows that put him in front of his favorite audiences of all: Chicagoans. Serving up funny stories on…
June brings many premieres, including the U.S. debut of Christopher Wheeldon's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" at Joffrey.
In answering its mission to bring little- or too seldom-heard Italian opera masterworks to Chicago stages, the Opera Festival of Chicago has found its place in the mix, adding to the city's …
Why American Players Theatre has managed to survive for forty-six seasons in the Wisconsin woods while fancier, more centrally located, and less mosquito-y venues have closed.
The rough outline of the Capek plot remains, although the story is both simplified and sped up, giving the play the breathless pacing of a Saturday-morning cartoon.
The show's title nods to the sixty-four squares on a chessboard, a fitting symbol for a presentation built around this classic game. The evening will unfold in two dynamic halves, each divin…
"Gorgeous" by Rivendell and Raven Theatre is heartbreaking, hilarious and engrossing, a hit to kick off the summer season.
"The Antiquities" is a play of big ideas about the meaning of life. It reminds us that even if humans are just a blip on the universal timeline, we had some things worth remembering. Get it …