Theater
Reviews of Chicago’s stage shows and news from the actors and actresses putting on the performances.
‘It feels like the show was written about me,’ says one Manhattan theater buff, who has been to the Sufjan Stevens dance musical 38 times and counting.
Cassy Schillo, the props designer at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, explains how she finds props for a show, including the upcoming production of “The Audience.’
The statue of Hansberry, whose works include the seminal “A Raisin in the Sun,” is set to be unveiled Aug. 23 at Navy Pier.
Fiesta del Sol, a festival of improv performers and a Barry Manilow concert are among the local entertainment highlights in the week ahead.
Veteran comedian and part-time Chicagoan stays in the game with the recent ‘Mean Girls’ movie and a team performing this weekend at iO Fest.
A star-studded country show headlined by George Strait, a ‘Lord of the Rings’ musical and the Pitchfork Music Festival are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.
Chicago waitress and immigrant dishwasher try to reconcile different views of romance in American Blues Theater’s poignant romance.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater nabbed the U.S. premiere of the sweeping musical, which ditches a costly full orchestra in favor of actors playing instruments on stage.
With “Romeo and Juliet” under way, we take a look at the challenges to staging outdoor shows at Oak Park Festival Theatre.
“Savor” offers a dazzling roster of dance numbers that range from tango, rhumba and waltz to disco and burlesque.
The country sounds and grilled delicacies of the Windy City Smokeout, a Jerry Seinfeld show in Indiana and the launch of the Millennium Park summer film series are some of the Chicago area’s entertainment highlights in the week ahead.
Donahue will step into the role that had previously been portrayed by Larry Yando.
Goodman Theatre’s world premiere production benefits greatly from a sizzling turn by J. Harrison Ghee as the cabaret singer Lady Chablis.
She had a 37-year run at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School in Mount Greenwood, where she led the theater program, eventually going on to create the 99th Street Summer Theatre Festival, a children’s summer camp and other programming.
‘Savor After Hours,’ the African/Caribbean International Festival of Life, the Chicago Craft Beer Fest and Keith Urban in concert at NASCAR Chicago are among the highlights in the week ahead.
Exuberant Writers Theatre play sticks to the familiar and the feel-good in its thoughtful consideration of Black male masculinity.
In Chicago, Cobbs starred in 1988-89 production of ‘Driving Miss Daisy.’
The Rolling Stones, the annual Chicago Pride Parade and the opening of Illuminarium on Navy Pier are among the highlights of things to see and do in the week ahead.
This is a deeply beautiful piece of writing, bleakly funny, poetic in its plainness, aching in its intense empathy for the characters, brought to life by Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock at Steppenwolf Theatre.