Category: Theater

She can sell out the United Center with her comedy, but this time she’s doing Shakespeare, suckers. And eye-opening Shakespeare at that.

Now at the Broadway Playhouse, Harry Lennix stars as the playwright in the years leading up to his Century Cycle.

With ’80s hits by Huey Lewis and the News and some really funny lines, this good-time show might prove to be one of the sleeper hits of the season.

“Patriots” offers up a potted history of Russia from the 1990s, the era of bumbling Boris Yeltsin, to the present.

NEW YORK — A Chicago-style Italian beef sandwich is on the menu at Second City’s new outpost in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The tasty if pricey sandwich is an outlier among the Brooklyn lager, and a necessary reminder of the famed comedy troupe’s Old Town origins, as Second City now attempts to conquer the unfamiliar stomping grounds […]

In the end, “Suffs” does what all of the best Broadway musicals do: it humanizes, empowers, entertains and moves an audience.

Why does Marian the librarian fall for that slick con man Harold Hill, he who has manufactured trouble in River City purely so he can make a buck from peddling a kids’ marching band?

For a lot of Broadway fans, the return of the Super Soul Musical to the Great White Way after some 50 years is a cause for celebration.

Nostalgic parents and young theatergoers alike will find plenty to smile about in the spring production at Chicago Children’s Theatre.