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Jasmine Amy Rogers (center) and cast of "Boop! The Musical" on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Review: ‘Boop! The Musical’ opens on Broadway as a retro song-and-dance celebration

April 7, 2025 at 8:44 p.m.

Director Jerry Mitchell’s sing-and-smile-along musical opens in New York, vastly improved from its Chicago tryout and starring the talented Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop.

Namir Smallwood, with Zainab Jah and Brian Marable, in "The Book of Grace" by Suzan-Lori Parks in Steppenwolf’s Ensemble Theater. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: In ‘The Book of Grace’ at Steppenwolf, a Texas family hurtles toward a reckoning

April 7, 2025 at 12:31 p.m.

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has forged a play about the toll that doing a job like intercepting migrants inevitably takes on a man and his family.

Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas in "The Last Five Years" on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre in New York. (Matthew Murphy)

Review: ‘The Last Five Years’ on Broadway stumbles with its casting

April 7, 2025 at 2:24 p.m.

Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren both may be talented, but they never connect as the couple we watch in Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical.

Glenn Fleshler and George Clooney in "Good Night, and Good Luck" on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. (Emilio Madrid)

Review: In ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ on Broadway, here’s George Clooney with an urgent bulletin

April 4, 2025 at 8:04 a.m.

To his credit, he disappears into the role of CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, on stage here in a prescient McCarthy-era story masterfully told by director David Cromer.

Clare Kennedy Mclaughlin (center) and cast in "Titanique" at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago. (Michael Brosilow)

Review: ‘Titanique’ at Broadway Playhouse avoids the icebergs and showcases a rising star

April 3, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

This parody musical has found all the right ways to be funny as it sends up the 1997 movie and singer Céline Dion — and top of the list is...

Clare Kennedy Mclaughlin (as Céline Dion) and music director Michael McBride in "Titanique" at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago. (Michael Brosilow)

As ‘Titanique’ opens in Chicago, talking to the actress who plays Céline Dion

April 2, 2025 at 5:15 a.m.

This show is a musical spoof of both the 1997 movie "Titanic" and the Canadian vocal diva Céline Dion. We spoke with Clare Kennedy McLaughlin, a Northwestern University graduate who...

Bob Odenkirk and Donald Webber Jr. in "Glengarry Glen Ross" on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in New York. (Emilio Madrid)

Review: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ on Broadway has a terrific cast, though some as the wrong salesmen

March 31, 2025 at 10:30 p.m.

Bill Burr is perfect as Moss in this revival of Mamet's riveting play about desperate salesmen. Bob Odenkirk would have been even better swapping places with Michael McKean.

Jonas Hacker, Nicole Heaston and the company of "The Listeners" by Missy Mazzoli at Lyric Opera of Chicago. (Cory Weaver)

Review: ‘The Listeners’ at Lyric Opera loses its story as it follows the Hum

March 31, 2025 at 1:25 p.m.

"The Listeners," the wild new opera with music by Missy Mazzoli and a libretto by Royce Varek, begins with a coyote dancing across the stage of Chicago's Lyric Opera and...

The cast of "Sunny Afternoon" in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier. (Carol Rosegg)

Review: ‘Sunny Afternoon’ at Chicago Shakespeare chases the soul of Ray Davies and The Kinks

March 30, 2025 at 1:03 p.m.

This jukebox music plays tribute to the great British Invasion band, now in its North American debut in Chicago. The cast is led by a knockout Ray Davies.

Sarah Snook in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York. (Marc Brenner)

Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ on Broadway stars Sarah Snook in a production unlike anything you’ve seen

March 27, 2025 at 9:00 p.m.

The actress known for her work on "Succession” is the powerful solo performer in this very digital adaptation of the Oscar Wilde horror story.

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