Theater and Stages
The comic talent behind “Side Mullet Nation” mines a life-threatening infection for her latest one-woman confessional.
The Equity Jeff Awards also recognized Goodman Theatre’s centennial season and four local theater companies celebrating their big 50: Marriott Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre and Steppenwolf.
Jojo Jones and Kimberly Dixon-Mays had different journeys to their coveted first stage productions, but they show similarities in connecting with audiences.
The “Downton Abbey” actress is picking up the pen and writing the roles she wants to play. First up: the sultry star from Hollywood’s Golden era.
Nestor Gomez, a Sun-Times Chicago’s Next Voices columnist, writes about the Resilience Arts Festival coming next month to Definition Theatre in Hyde Park.
Actor Caroline Neff shines in this staging of Rajiv Joseph’s 2015 play, about a kidnapped young woman who is returned to her birth family.
With a 17-person cast, director Ron OJ Parson takes a 1938 classic and makes it digestible and thought-provoking for contemporary audiences.
Former clients say Mr. Morris had an uncanny knack for walking into a space and, within moments, envisioning its future layout.
This season’s calendar is packed with top-notch shows. This list will help you get a meal to match.
Set in a TV shop, this requiem for a Zenith offers substance, solid drama and winning comedy, but also too many redundancies.
Tickets are on sale today for the touring show, which stops at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater on Sept. 25 and 26.
The play puts Gertrude Berg front and center in a period piece embedded with a razor’s edge of contemporary urgency and spliced through with comedy.
Fischer, who has the lead in “Ashland Avenue” at the Goodman Theatre, said the role in husband Lee Kirk’s script was too compelling to turn down.
The show, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, has so many bells and whistles that the deeper themes get lost in one-liners and the production’s gradual descent into complete absurdity.
Marriott Theatre’s staging of musical about con man Frank Abagnale Jr. sounds great, thanks to ensemble’s powerful vocals and an enjoyable jazzy/bluesy bubblegum-pop score. But the context surrounding it is irredeemable.
When 6,600-plus passengers were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, on Sept. 11, 2001, Ganderians more than rose to the occasion. Their radical hospitality inspired “Come From Away,” running through Oct. 12 at Aurora’s Paramount Theatre.
The theme of this theater season? Brand-new Chicago productions. Theater reporter Mike Davis picked 11 shows to get tickets to now.
His radio DJ woke Bill Murray’s character — again and again — in “Groundhog Day.” He started in improv comedy but also played serious roles in Chicago theater.
“Bug” was written nearly 30 years ago by Coon’s husband, Tracy Letts. The psychological thriller is the latest Broadway transfer for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
Chicago’s favorite relic is hosting a group photo on Saturday, and a new book about its grandiose past and uncertain future comes out this week.