The talented Dani Pike stars in this solo show that taps into the music of the ’80s and all it represented.
Review: Craving Andrew Lloyd Webber power ballads? Try ‘Tell Me On a Sunday’ at Theo
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Reader can partake in French lessons, and now cancan during ‘Moulin Rouge’ Chicago run
Alliance Francaise de Chicago offers language courses, both beginning and advanced options, as well as many other cultural programs like cancan dancing in partnership with the touring cast of “Moulin Rouge!”
Chicago Shakes 2025-26 season: Billie Jean King play and ‘Brokeback Mountain’ musical
Also coming to Navy Pier for a very full next season, a Halloween show, “Much Ado About Nothing” for the holidays and a return for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Review: ‘Sondheim’s Old Friends’ on Broadway is a don’t-miss chance to revisit his music
With a company that includes stars like Bernadette Peters who first sang in Stephen Sondheim’s musicals, shows like this won’t come around again.
Auditorium’s 2025-26 dance season includes Ensemble Español and Trinity Irish Dance
The five performances, all by female-led dance companies, conclude next spring with the annual visit by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Review: In ‘The Book of Grace’ at Steppenwolf, a Texas family hurtles toward a reckoning
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has forged a play about the toll that doing a job like intercepting migrants inevitably takes on a man and his family.
Column: Next weekend, a confluence of dance events you definitely should see
Along with rare visits by Parsons Dance and Twyla Tharp’s dance company, there’s this year’s collaboration between the Joffrey and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. And if you time it right, you can see them all.
Review: ‘The Last Five Years’ on Broadway stumbles with its casting
Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren both may be talented, but they never connect as the couple we watch in Jason Robert Brown’s two-character musical.
As ‘Titanique’ opens in Chicago, talking to the actress who plays Céline Dion
This show is a musical spoof of both the 1997 movie “Titanic” and the Canadian vocal diva Céline Dion. We spoke with Clare Kennedy McLaughlin, a Northwestern University graduate who plays Céline.
Review: ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ on Broadway stars Sarah Snook in a production unlike anything you’ve seen
The actress known for her work on “Succession” is the powerful solo performer in this very digital adaptation of the Oscar Wilde horror story.