Politics and anxiety drive Part One, subtitled “Millennium Approaches,” and Part Two, “Perestroika,” diverges into the ...

Every once in a while, there is a show that blows all of your expectations out of the water, one that sets a new standard for ...

The Seldoms premiered the show in 2023 at the Harris Theater. The production will be remounted July 25 and 26, fittingly, at ...

1 You Will Get Sick (Steppenwolf Theatre) Fresh off “Purpose”’s Tony win for best play, Steppenwolf makes magic again, with Audrey Francis directing this surrealist masterwork by Noah Diaz. Through ...

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.

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 needs no ...

Eclectic is an overused word. But in the case of trumpeter, pianist and composer Terence Blanchard who rose to the top of the jazz world, has composed scores for more than fifty films and more ...

"8-Track: The Sounds of the '70s" is exactly what it sounds like, a fun, light musical revue that plumbs the breadth of a transformative decade in music.

Chicago is seen as a particularly fertile launching pad for the stars of tomorrow, whether in acting, comedy, writing or dance.

A late starter in the acting game, Shariba Rivers has caught up with the pack, and this past year has made her move toward stardom. Anyone who saw her in TimeLine’s “Trouble in Mind,” or Rivendell’s ...