Journalists are taught that you have to see it to believe it. But award-winning Chicago journalist Jenniffer Weigel learned that’s not the only way of viewing the world.
This last year was busy on Broadway, with new musicals and several impressive plays featuring ensemble casts. As always, the best shows asked the fundamental questions of human existence and focused on how human relationships can both destroy our certainty and save our souls. And the shows listed below also managed to be great nights out on the town.
As we approach the end of 2024, the critics and columnists of A+E reflect on the year to highlight some people who have made a difference in the city’s arts.
With 2024 coming to a close, the A&E staff take a look back at their favorites from the year, from the stage performances that captivated us to the books that kept us turning the page.
As we approach the end of 2023, the critics and columnists of A+E reflect on the year to highlight some people who have made a difference in the city’s arts.
The from-Chicago comedian is on a stand-up tour for the first time in years, ready to use all the stuff she’s been through as material.
The Magic Masters of Chicago, started in 1944, is Chicago’s “longest-running magic club dedicated to the advancement of the art of magic.”
Madam Rose is known for her powerhouse belt and for being the scariest Bad Showbiz Mother of the Year, but not for moving an audience to tears. Audra McDonald, surely the best actress ever to play this iconic role, changes that trajectory in director George C. Wolfe’s disarmingly moving Broadway revival of “Gypsy.”
Members of the theater say they will not participate in any Congo Square activities until the board chair is removed.
Paramount’s shows rival Broadway tours and draw audiences from all over. Under his leadership, this theater has reinvented Aurora’s downtown.