Review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ adaptation explores the social circles of wealthy Midwestern gays
Underlying the farcical hijinks of mistaken identities and lovers’ quarrels, the theme of found family...
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Review: ‘The Singularity Play’ by Jackalope at Berger Park unleashes AI terror on theater people
"The Singularity Play" explores the terror that the rise of artificial intelligence should and does...
John Cleese is in town for ‘Last Chance To See Me Before I Die’
Cleese, now 84 and long famed for his seminal comedic work on "Monty Python's Flying...
Larry Yando will trade Scrooge for Severus Snape in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’
The veteran Chicago actor, long the star of the Goodman Theatre's annual production of "A...
Review: ‘A Little Night Music’ at Theo Ubique has Sondheim’s summer songs in the right place
This musical is operetta-like in its structure and transfixing in its musical pleasures, not the...
Review: ‘Six’ is back in Chicago, still the first-class show its fans want
These royal divas sing out as the six wives of Henry VIII — the Broadway...
Review: ‘Home’ on Broadway is the moving, understated story of a man searching for his past
Playwright Samm-Art Williams wrote "Home" in 1979, and this Roundabout Theatre production makes that time...
Review: Word nerds, puzzle fans, this is your show — ‘The Enigmatist’ now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Magician and puzzle creator David Kwong has penned a 90-minute show very much rooted in...
‘Man of the People’ celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson
This new jazz poetry opera comes to Chicago's Hamilton Park District, remembering a towering musical...
Review: ‘Stokely’ at Court Theatre is an unfinished story of a uncompromising radical
Nambi E. Kelley's play is about the activist Stokely Carmichael, who played a major role...