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Dana Delany is an actress with guts, that's for sure.
"Masquerade," anyone? We traveled to Detroit to catch this touring singular sensation before it plays a sell-out party at Subterranean.
Katy Sullivan will be the first woman with a disability to play the title role in a major U.S. production of Shakespeare's "Richard III."
In the grim drama "Flood," Mashuq Mushtaq Deen has written an environmentalist allegory with absurdist underpinnings.
Aurora's ever-growing Paramount Theatre has been granted the rights this fall to what's likely to be a hot-selling musical.
Brian D'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara play the on-the-rocks couple in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel's potent musical.
Three different singers play the welterweight boxer Emile Griffith in Lyric Opera's visceral production of Terence Blanchard's 2013 jazz opera.
"Champion" at Lyric Opera of Chicago by composer Terence Blanchard.
"I think it says something about our times," she says about the play, "and the loneliness we all feel."
He plans to stage his prior Chicago hit "I'm Not a Comedian ... I'm Lenny Bruce," as directed by Joe Mantegna, and a new production of "Bill W. and Dr. Bob."
The new Disney tour will open at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago's Loop in July 2025.
Roche Schulfer, 72, plans to retire from his job as the Chicago theater's executive director, effective Aug. 31.
Peck is best known as a dance choreographer but he wants "Illinoise," opening soon on Navy Pier, to be a theater piece. There is a narrative.
"Cinderella" is a barnstormer of a title, but there is no fairy godmother or glass slipper in this emotionally potent "La Cenerentola."
The theater will produce its 2024 season in the venue at the western end of Chicago's North Center neighborhood.
As the wife, Max decides to repair herself to her husband's Southern Baptist seminary. "Why is this woman here?" you keep wondering.
Take a cruise with a show packed with vitality, honesty and love for old-school Broadway.
This year's festival will have productions from five continents, most shows intended for adults.
The winter theater season is upon us. We have 10 Chicago-area shows opening between now and the end of March that look especially interesting.
It's no rest for the weary in Chicago dance, which hits the ground running this winter.
If you're looking to enjoy some comedy, and perhaps see someone you haven't caught live before, here are 10 comics stopping by the Chicago area.
The play is set partly in 2016 as the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen makes unnerving political inroads and partly in 1946, when many Jewish families had been obliterated.
They say they will begin picketing theaters Jan. 16 and will ask audiences not to cross the picket lines.
Here, in order of preference, are my top picks from New York's Great White Way on the first full year since the pandemic.
They were the leads of big musicals ("Boop," "Tommy") or stars in other ways. Including an unprecedented top-10 double appearance.
