Category: Theater

Choreographer Jeffrey Page’s “Lifted” was a highlight of this company’s standout night at the Auditorium Theatre.

“Particularly fitting” is how I’d describe choreographer Bob Fosse’s “Sweet Gwen Suite” for Hubbard Street. Nothing should surprise us with this extraordinary crop of genre-defying dancers.

With a score by Elton John, this production comes to Broadway from London with its fabulous original star, Katie Brayben. Her performance is the most interesting part of the show.

The appeal of this particular piece is in its sweet, quirky score and in how well it keeps its own rules about what these bots can and cannot do.

Another longtime creative force, Chicago Moving Company, is shutting down. Chicago’s dance institutions have faced practical and existential questions in the two years since recovery from the pandemic began in earnest.

James Monroe Iglehart stars as Satchmo in a new jukebox musical about the jazz great. But in this story, sometimes there’s too much to tell.

The former member of the Four Seasons is a producer of the biographical musical based on the life and songs of Neil Diamond.

The tale of blues musician Robert Johnson crossing paths with the devil is a potent place to start, but this play still needs more work.