In the annals of celebrity, chefs are relative newcomers. Some date stars of the kitchen back to Bartolomeo Scappi, Renaissance chef to Pope...
As producers and promoters go, Jeff Parry has a certain refreshing honesty. Not a bad attribute when you are producing something called "The...
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Burden of Not Having a Tail' at Sideshow Theatre Company ★★ ... Among life's tribulations, you might not...
NINA METZ reviews "The Half-Brothers Mendelssohn" by Strange Tree Group ★★½ and Facing Angela by The Ruckus ★★
Picking the upcoming opening nights.
Steep Theatre, the respected storefront operation on Chicago's North Side with a niche consisting of new work from the United Kingdom,...
Hot Tix, the half-price ticketing operation run by the League of Chicago Theatres, is to open a new location inside the Block Thirty Seven...
Chicago Shakespeare Theater said Tuesday that it will present "The Table," an adult-oriented puppet show informed by Bunraku puppetry and...
THEATER REVIEW: 'The Jungle Book' at the Goodman Theatre ★★½ ... In the very last scene of Mary Zimmerman's production,...
THEATER REVIEW: 'Big Lake Big City' at the Lookingglass Theatre ★★½ ... This wildly ambitious and staggeringly unwieldy new...
THEATER REVIEW: 'Tartuffe' at Court Theatre ★★★ ... Charles Newell's conception for his new Court Theatre production of...
So what did Bernie Sahlins, who died June 16, have in common with such fellow Chicagoans as Cyrus McCormick, Ray Kroc, Gustavus Swift,...
KERRY REID reviews 'Waiting for Lefty' by Oracle Theatre ★★★½ and 'Black and Blue' at Raven Theatre ★★
THEATER REVIEW: 'Inner Voices' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★½ ... No theater in the world has done more for...
KEVIN PANG reviews Cook County Social Club at iO Theater ... In the end, with tears in their eyes, they piggy-backed, kicked and shot...
PERFORMANCE REVIEW: "Divina Natura" by Marco Nereo Rotelli at the Field Museum ... Chicago should light up more of its signature buildings,...
KERRY REID reviews 'Amadeus' at Oak Park Festival Theatre ★★★ ... If Antonio Salieri has living descendants, one imagines...
THEATER REVIEW: 'A Clown Car Named Desire' ★★★★ ... "I see people out front," observes the sad-eyed man at the...
Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls is to helm playwright Beth Henley's play "The Jacksonian" at the New Group in the fall, the...
KERRY REID reviews 'Cymbeline: A Folk Tale With Music' by First Folio Theatre ★★★½ ... Within the Shakespearean...
The touring production of "Ghost The Musical," a show that did reasonably well in London's West End and then came and went quickly on...
The Saturday night crowd at The Second City got to see a performer not on the usual bill: Tom Hanks.
THEATER REVIEW: 'Boeing-Boeing' at Drury Lane Theatre ★★½ ... A hilarious relic, the cheerfully sexist French farce...
The 12-million viewers who tuned into the final episode of "The Sopranos" in 2007 thought there was a good chance Tony Soprano would get...
The Dramatists Guild of America, the trade organization for playwrights,?is to hold its annual conference in Chicago in August,...
"I think," said David Schwimmer over breakfast the other day, "that this may be one of the funniest plays Lookingglass has ever done."
THEATER REVIEW: "Buddy" at Cadillac Palace Theatre ★★ ...Since "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story" dates all the way to 1989, it...
NINA METZ reviews 'Uncle Bob' at Mary-Arrchie ★★½ and 'Slaughter City' at Prop Thtr ★★
THEATER REVIEW: "Mine," the very arresting and intensely personal new play by Laura Marks at the Gift Theatre, begins with a young woman...
THEATER REVIEW: "I need some ladies up here," declared Howlin' Wolf, as channeled through Rick Stone, at Black Ensemble Theatre on Sunday.
The national tour of the Broadway hit "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to "Peter Pan" aimed mostly at adults, will stop through...
THEATER REVIEW: About Face has turned to a richly complex and beautifully wrought British play, Alexi Kaye Campbell's "The Pride," to...
Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins, the co-founder and former owner of Second City and a crucial and essential innovator in the field of American...
Rudyard Kipling hated Chicago. "It holds rather more than a million of people with bodies, and stands on the same sort of soil as Calcutta,"...
Just as people in longtime relationships need to find ways to rejuvenate the romance, so too do cute musicals about dating, love and...
THEATER REVIEW: Vocal quality really matters at the Theo Ubique Theatre Company, the shabby-chic venue for small musicals in Rogers Park,...
Those who toil in Chicago's storefront theaters had two moments in the sun recently. One was anticipated: the non-Equity Joseph Jefferson...
"Brighton Beach Memoirs"?
THEATER REVIEW: The Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company's experimental production of "The Glass Menagerie" is one of the great Chicago storefront...
KERRY REID reviews 'Fight Girl Battle World' at Theater Wit ★★★ and 'The Timey Wimey Fantastic Brilliant Extravaganza...