Improv teams old and new celebrate 45 years of iO Theater
iO Theater, Chicago's home for longform improv, is turning 45 this year and throwing a...
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Review: Potent ‘A Few Good Men’ on Broadway needs a lawyer we can believe in
"You can't handle the truth" is writer Aaron's Sorkin's most famous line in his play...
Patrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86
Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon and added gravitas...
Review: ‘Beaches’ musical reaches Broadway, well sung and proudly sentimental
The straightforward stage adaptation hews closely to the movie, “Wind Beneath My Wings" and all.
Six teens play 120 characters in new LATTE production of Alfred Hitchcock’s ’39 Steps’
La Grange Area Teen Theatre Ensemble’s spring play will be “39 Steps,” based on the...
Review: Court Theatre’s new musical about divorce feels at odds with itself
Somewhere deep in “Out Here” lies a moving new musical about the pain of divorce...
First-of-its-kind MCA exhibition plays the beat of Caribbean activism
"Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón" is a new exhibition at the Museum of...
Review: “‘night Mother” by Redtwist Theatre offers no respite from the darkness
In Marsha Norman’s unflinchingly bleak Pulitzer Prize winner, a daughter reveals to her mother her...
Review: In ‘The Balusters’ on Broadway, a mighty contest rises from porch railings
The Vernon Point Neighborhood Association may be an easy target, but the cast of David...
Review: Big tech and the damage done in tense ‘Job’ at Writers Theatre
Christopher Donahue and Rae Gray play a therapist and a young tech worker in Max...
Review: ’12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs)’ is an abstract feminist riff on Shakespeare
In this retelling, Ophelia reemerges from the water into a neo-Elizabethan version of Appalachia, where...
Review: ‘Schmigadoon!’ takes the parody of musicals all the way to Broadway
Based on the Apple TV series, Alex Brightman and Sara Chase play the couple who...
Review: ‘Windfall’ at Steppenwolf Theatre is a protest play about life, death and police payoffs
Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney's new play is very direct in its messaging, delivered with his...